Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Ice Watch
Read more: Ice WatchDanish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to…
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Funk Lessons
Read more: Funk LessonsAdrian Piper’s “Funk Lessons” (1982-84) was a series of performances and collaborative events in which the artist taught white participants about black funk music, its culture, and its history, aiming to deconstruct stereotypical ideas about Black culture. Adrian Piper began…
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Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei
Read more: Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei“Everything is art. Everything is politics.” Globally renowned artist Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is celebrated as a disruptor of artistic canons and a champion of free expression. In his work—ranging across performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation—he deploys humor…
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For $84,000, An Artist Returned Two Blank Canvasses Titled ‘Take The Money And Run’
Read more: For $84,000, An Artist Returned Two Blank Canvasses Titled ‘Take The Money And Run’The money was supposed to be used to create modern art. And it was — but not in the way a Danish museum expected when it gave an artist the equivalent of $84,000. In return, it received two empty canvases.…
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Keith Haring’s Barcelona mural: A vibrant call to action
Read more: Keith Haring’s Barcelona mural: A vibrant call to actionA vibrant red mural in the heart of Barcelona serves as both an artistic expression and social activism. Officially known as the Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (Together We Can Stop AIDS), the public art was created by the…
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Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram’s Ban
Read more: Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram’s BanIt all began during Claudia’s final art project at the London College of Communication, where she delved into the issue of “sexual objectification of women,” a topic close to her heart as she navigated her womanhood. Her initial series, “Scenery,”…
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Nara Yoshitomo “No Nukes (Untitled)”
Read more: Nara Yoshitomo “No Nukes (Untitled)”An early representation of Nara’s strong stance against nuclear weapons, No Nukes is now synonymous with the antinuclear protest movement. The work is painted over a promotional poster for bossa nova musician Vinicius Cantuária’s Amor Brasileiro (1998) among other printed…
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Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)
Read more: Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)Collective Creativity in the Beginning Project Row Houses (PRH) is, and has always been, a unique experiment in activating the intersections between art, cultural and historic preservation, affordable and innovative housing, community engagement and development, neighborhood revitalization, and human empowerment.…
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Photographing the hidden – Violence Unseen
Read more: Photographing the hidden – Violence UnseenUK photographer Alicia Bruce collaborated with Zero Tolerance, a Scottish non-profit to end GBV, to produce a new version of the Violence Unseen campaign, launched for the first time in the 1990s and created by Franki Raffles. The new one…
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Brat Summer: From Charli XCX’s *Brat* to a Cultural Movement and the Perfect Sneaker Aesthetic
Read more: Brat Summer: From Charli XCX’s *Brat* to a Cultural Movement and the Perfect Sneaker AestheticThe Brat Summer movement can be directly traced back to the release of Charli XCX’s album “Brat” in 2024. Known for her boundary-pushing pop sound and fierce persona, Charli XCX used “Brat” as a platform to explore themes of defiance,…