Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Can’t Help Myself
Read more: Can’t Help MyselfIn 2016, the Guggenheim Museum commissioned its very first robotic artwork called Can’t Help Myself (Wannmann, 2016). The artwork is created by two of China’s most controversial artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and can be described as a robotic…
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Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)
Read more: Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)“It could have been me,” Jean-Michel Basquiat would say at the mere mention of the untimely death of Michael Stewart. Stewart, a 25-year-old artist, was allegedly drawing on the walls of the subway on 15 September 1983 when he was…
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Gay, Black, and Revolutionary: The Importance of ‘Moonlight’
Read more: Gay, Black, and Revolutionary: The Importance of ‘Moonlight’The latest Academy Award for Best Picture was earned by a film depicting the story of a poor, gay, black boy in South Florida. Moonlight, by director Barry Jenkins, has achieved great recognition for its beautiful and honest depiction of…
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Linha Vermelha – Red Line
Read more: Linha Vermelha – Red LineLinha Vermelha was created in 2016 by the non-profit organization Academia Cidadã (Citizenship Academy). At that time there were fifteen active contracts for oil and gas drilling and we were inspired by the “Red Line Action” in Paris, during COP21…
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Art, Politics, Activism, Oakland And Angela Davis
Read more: Art, Politics, Activism, Oakland And Angela DavisWhen the U.S. government came after Anglea Davis, art came to her defense. Targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as one of its “10 Most Wanted” in 1970, tracked down, jailed and accused of three capital crimes, artists and…
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Philando Castile: remembering his life through the power of art
Read more: Philando Castile: remembering his life through the power of artIt all started a few months ago, when the Minneapolis Institute of Art got a phone call from Valerie Castile. Castile is the mother of Philando Castile, the 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a police officer…
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The Promised Land
Read more: The Promised LandContemporaryand Article: Armitage, born in Nairobi, elaborates upon the contradictory dynamics in contemporary Kenya. Through his painterly language, the artist filters the various spheres that mark both the collective and individual experience in his country of origin — from brief…
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César Chávez and the Migrants
Read more: César Chávez and the MigrantsThe play celebrates the life and legacy of the Mexican-American labor activist César Chávez. His early life as well as his partnership with Dolores Huerta, activism with the National Farm Workers Association, the 1968 grape boycott, and his ongoing commitment…
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Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassy
Read more: Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassyWheelbarrows full of washable paint were poured along the Kensington road to mark a year since Russia launched its invasion. Four people have been arrested for the protest. Yesterday morning (23 February), Led by Donkeys staged a protest in front…
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Art activists decorate bandanas to protest violence against women farmworkers
Read more: Art activists decorate bandanas to protest violence against women farmworkersSitting at a folding table in the basement of Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Columbus, Monica Jacobo used a felt tip marker to write the words “No means no!” on a white bandana. Jacobo, 57, was among nearly a dozen…