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Date:
Feb 28 1967

This modestly scaled exhibition, featuring work by three (then) young and relatively unknown photographers named Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, had a lasting influence on modern photography. As curator John Szarkowski explained in his introduction to the exhibition,…

A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art

Practitioner:
Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB

Date:
Feb 28 1967

Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law. “Because political art speaks directly to issues that people care deeply about (in that instance, having an African-American First Family),…

How Feminists in China Are Using Emoji to Avoid Censorship

Practitioner:
Chinese feminists

Date:
Feb 28 1967

Shortly after the close of this year’s International Women’s Day, China’s Twitter-like service Sina Weibo shut down Feminist Voices. With 180,000 followers, the group’s social media account was one of the most important advocacy channels for spreading information about women’s…

A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US

Practitioner:
Artist Rachel Breen, Poet Alison Morse

Date:
Feb 28 1967

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity. The 1,281 garments represent the number…

Dana Ellyn, Vegan Painter

Practitioner:
Dana Ellyn

Date:
Feb 28 1967

Another incredible artist determined to change the world for animals is Dana Ellyn. This DC-based artist started being a full-time painter in 2002 after leaving a corporate job. Her paintings do not shy away from showing the exploitation of animals,…

Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct History

Practitioner:
Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins

Date:
Feb 28 1967

Join other families in reimagining sports team mascots and logos that misrepresent Native American communities. Design a campaign for alternative names with the help of artists Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins, taking inspiration from the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the…

The Guerrilla Girls attack gender and class bias at Art Basel Hong Kong

Practitioner:
Guerrilla Girls

Date:
Feb 28 1967

For more than 30 years, the Guerrilla Girls have travelled the world exposing sexism and inequality in the art industry, and this week they proved Hong Kong was no exception. Three members of the anonymous feminist collective—calling themselves Frida Kahlo,…

East Side Gallery

Practitioner:
Graffiti artists

Date:
Feb 28 1967

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, the cement segments that remain have stood as something more symbolic than just a wall. With installations in every continent, except for Antarctica, the East Side Gallery is the…

Pop Art Politics

Practitioner:
Keith Haring

Date:
Feb 28 1967

It’s this symbolism and the characters that repeatedly appear in Haring’s work that provide the backbone of an exhibition opening March 16, 2018 at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. On view through June 24, 2018, “Keith Haring. The Alphabet,” comprises…

ASCO Collective

Practitioner:
ASCO Collective

Date:
Feb 28 1967

Beginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it…