Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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“Graffittied Graffiti”
Read more: “Graffittied Graffiti”At a gallery within a shopping complex in the South Korean capital, a couple saw paint cans and brushes at their reach and use next to what was actually a finished portrait worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thinking the…
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Oriental Grocery
Read more: Oriental GroceryStephanie H. Shih is a Brooklyn-based ceramist who explores Asian American identity through clay interpretations of grocery items. The ceramicist has created life-size painted clay Sriracha bottles, Pocky cartons, soy sauce gallons, and instant ramen as part of a series…
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HERE I AM festival.
Read more: HERE I AM festival.Four prominent Australian artists – Aretha Brown, Claire Martin, Kaff-eine and Jane Gillings – will gather in Canberra this Sunday, to discuss their art, activism and ideas, marking the closing weekend of Kambri’s HERE I AM festival. The Art Activism…
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Designers launch ‘Bolsocaro’ campaign to criticize price increase in Brazil
Read more: Designers launch ‘Bolsocaro’ campaign to criticize price increase in BrazilFrom a distance they look like supermarket promotion ads, but up close, the text says the reverse: it details the skyrocketing food prices. This is the proposal of the action “Bolsocaro”, which spread posters (those known as lambe-lambes) by walls…
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After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here
Read more: After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here“Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept to the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy and…
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“Waste” Sculpture
Read more: “Waste” SculptureIn 2016, Zhou Zhenfeng, who was a student at a college in Hebei at the time, discovered that there were a lot of waste tires in the streets and alleys. Zhou Zhenfeng learned that tires are made of infusible or…
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THE SAHMAT COLLECTIVE: ART AND ACTIVISM IN INDIA SINCE 1989
Read more: THE SAHMAT COLLECTIVE: ART AND ACTIVISM IN INDIA SINCE 1989In 1989, playwright, actor, and activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked by political thugs while performing a street play outside of Delhi. His death led to the founding of Sahmat, an influential artist collective that has taken a consistent stance…
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Big Tech CEOs Become 7ft Capitol Rioters
Read more: Big Tech CEOs Become 7ft Capitol RiotersAs tech leaders faced tough questions from Congress, SumOfUs, an 18 million member advocacy organization, was right outside with a larger-than-life installation of the January 6th Capitol riot that shows the role Big Tech played in sparking the insurrection. The…
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Mexican Feminists make an artistic intervention on “national heroes” portraits
Read more: Mexican Feminists make an artistic intervention on “national heroes” portraitsWomen’s collectives and feminist groups occupied the National Commission of Human Rights demanding results to several neglected, open investigations of feminicide in the country. During the occupation, they interviewed the portraits of historical “national heroes” with spray-paint, glitter, markers, and…
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Markig Time MoMA
Read more: Markig Time MoMAThis major exhibition explores the work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture. Featuring art made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment,…