Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Three months after the tragedy in Uvalde, families cope with art, activism and aspirations
Read more: Three months after the tragedy in Uvalde, families cope with art, activism and aspirationsAlexandria “Lexi” Aniyah Rubio was looking forward to playing volleyball when she got to junior high. She dreamed of going to law school one day, and she loved astrology, butterflies, and the color yellow. These elements of Lexi’s personality now…
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Fit For Work
Read more: Fit For WorkGraffiti art is particularly viewed as a powerful form of social protest, and the (illegal) act of defacing can be as important as the message itself. Artist Void One has been arrested on numerous occasions for his politically-charged interventions. “I…
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Abortion Series
Read more: Abortion SeriesIn 1998 Portuguese born artist Paula Rego created a series of work entitled Untitled. The Abortion Pastels. Rego created her work in response to a referendum to legalise abortion in Portugal, which was very narrowly defeated. Each canvas depicted the…
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The Vivienne Foundation
Read more: The Vivienne FoundationThe Vivienne Foundation exists to honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne’s creativity and activism. Since the start of her career in the 1970s, Vivienne was renowned not only for her fashion design, but also her activism. Vivienne always…
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Study of Perspective (& Stools)
Read more: Study of Perspective (& Stools)The son of an exiled political dissident, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s work is inherently political. Since 1995 Ai Weiwei has been traveling the world, photographing himself flipping off iconic monuments of power in his Study of Perspective series.…
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“Is it Real? Yes It Is!”
Read more: “Is it Real? Yes It Is!”In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issues. Yet another pressing topic in America has been curiously absent from art: abortion, which…
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Beyond AI WeiWei
Read more: Beyond AI WeiWeiIn a gallery in Hong Kong’s Chai Wan district last week, during the city’s third annual installment of the international Art Basel fair, the Beijing-based artist Huang Rui introduced a new live work called “Red Black White Grey.” At the…
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The Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox
Read more: The Ogden Ar(t)chives MailboxThe Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox is a community project that was initiated by Ogden poet, Angelika Brewer. The project involves a metal sculpture of a mailbox, which has various decorative elements such as a typewriter, a birdcage, and a heart. The…
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The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests
Read more: The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protestsThe Georgian government’s attempt in March to impose a repressive Russian-style “foreign agent” law has galvanised the cultural community in the country. Museum workers and artists have been at the forefront of dramatic protests during which police fired water cannons…
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Red Sand Project
Read more: Red Sand ProjectThe Red Sand Project is a participatory art installation and social awareness project created by artist and activist Molly Gochman in 2014. The project aims to raise awareness about human trafficking, which is a global issue that affects an estimated…