Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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The Panama Papers
Read more: The Panama PapersA giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies. External sources: https://panamapapers.icij.org/
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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance
Read more: Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and ResistanceThis year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country’s most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, the Bread and Puppet Theater’s first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing…
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Political Posters, Joseph A. Labadie Collection
Read more: Political Posters, Joseph A. Labadie CollectionThe Joseph A. Labadie Collection contains posters which have been acquired over the past 100 years. This database consists of images of those posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom,…
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Smuggling Books Across The Border
Read more: Smuggling Books Across The BorderFor the People Artists Collective is a collaborative network of radical artists of color in Chicago. #ForThePeopleFriday: Each Friday, we will be sharing artwork by one of our members. Today, we are featuring Leila Abdelrazaq, a Chicago-based Palestinian artist, whose…
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Perception and the Garbage People
Read more: Perception and the Garbage PeopleThe streets of the Cairo suburb Manshiyat Naser, nicknamed “Garbage City,” are lined with trash, and the people who live there — Coptic Christians who make their living sorting through it and recycling anything they can — are called zabaleen,…
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Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global Struggles
Read more: Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global StrugglesLatin American Artist María María Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations. ” Indignadas (Outraged Women) consists of a visual record of participation of women in public protests around the world,…
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Badass Indian Pinups
Read more: Badass Indian Pinups“Badass Indian Pinups” is a series of paintings by Indo-Canadian artist Nimisha Bhanot, that features paintings of Indian women being confident and sexually liberated. Bhanot was in art school in 2012, when the gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey took…
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The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World Inequality
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World InequalityIt’s women’s history month, and your favorite radical feminist avengers want you to go ape. The Guerrilla Girls have been making noise about gender and racial inequality in the art world since 1985. Fighting discrimination with a sense of humor…
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Speculative Fiction: Global Warming to the Extreme
Read more: Speculative Fiction: Global Warming to the ExtremeJosh Keyes is a contemporary artist who takes a “satirical look at the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and surmises, with the aid of scientific slices and core samples, what could happen if we continue to infiltrate and…
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Protest Posters for Fees Must Fall
Read more: Protest Posters for Fees Must FallDaniel Hewson describes the use of protest posters and the work of collective, Burning Museum, and artist, Faith47, in the Fees Must Fall movement taking place in South Africa: “The protest poster movement is still alive and vibrant in South…