Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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How Keith Haring Made Uncomfortable Topics More Digestible
Read more: How Keith Haring Made Uncomfortable Topics More DigestibleKeith Haring is known to be one of the biggest artists raising awareness for HIV and AIDS, considering he had also passed away from HIV. Starting his career covering ads with spray paint and chalk in subway stations in New…
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Turning powerful stats into art
Read more: Turning powerful stats into artArtist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics — like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day. https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_turning_powerful_stats_into_art?r… External sources:
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Sarah Lucas: Self Portrait of Fried Eggs
Read more: Sarah Lucas: Self Portrait of Fried EggsSince her breakout show, Penis Nailed to a Board, held at south London’s City Racing gallery in 1992, British artist Sarah Lucas has never shied from making a statement. Working with sculpture, photography and installation, the Goldsmiths graduate and prominent…
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“Escape the Corset”
Read more: “Escape the Corset”In this black-and-white image, there are no strands of hair or remnants of makeup to be found, except a shaved head belonging to a South Korean. Jeon photographed this image in 2019 for her exhibition that aimed to “destroy the…
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Politics, activism and cool cats by artist Meredith Stern at AS220 Project Space
Read more: Politics, activism and cool cats by artist Meredith Stern at AS220 Project Space“I really wanted to highlight the strength of the human condition. When we work together we’re stronger,” Meredith Stern says of her exhibition “Cooperation Cats: 10 years, 20 prints” at AS220’s Project Space, 93 Mathewson St., Providence, from Feb. 1…
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Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?
Read more: Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?Exhibition visitors have expressed feelings of uneasiness or even pain and nostalgia when seeing Colored Vases by Ai Weiwei1. The 51 vases that make up the artwork are originally treasures from the Neolithic Age (5000–3000 BCE) and the artist has…
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Path to Peace
Read more: Path to PeaceAbout us “Path to Peace” – is a joint mosaic creation, by thousands of people, towards hope, love, and happiness among all people. The creation is placed upon the border wall that divides the Gaza Strip and Israel, adjacent to…
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MSU community uses art to show solidarity with Iran protests
Read more: MSU community uses art to show solidarity with Iran protestsAmid ongoing protests and government repression in Iran, a group of artists at Michigan State University is raising awareness about the women fighting for their rights in the country. The group hosted a packed crowd one January evening for a…
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Dance with ghost, Student using dance to protest the corrupt Chinese tradition
Read more: Dance with ghost, Student using dance to protest the corrupt Chinese traditionA viral video of a student dance performance in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has won praise for speaking out against so-called ghost marriages, which many today see as an archaic and even dangerous tradition. In a recent competition,…
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Organization for the Democratization of the Visual Arts
Read more: Organization for the Democratization of the Visual ArtsODBK is an activist organization that aims to create a more equal, diverse, inclusive, transparent and democratic art world. ODBK seeks to do this by diversify and increase the number of people who understand and engage with contemporary art. We…