Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Embassy Of Iran in Jerusalem
Read more: Embassy Of Iran in JerusalemThere is no embassy of Iran in Jerusalem. We ask why. We are a group of artists living and creating in Jerusalem, trying to create a new reality. one which we can identify with. A reality of dialogue between the…
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Mystery Artist Paints Penises Around Potholes To Get Them Fixed
Read more: Mystery Artist Paints Penises Around Potholes To Get Them FixedArmed with a can of washable spray paint, an artist in Greater Manchester, England, has embarked on a worthy crusade: to rid the region of potholes… by drawing penises on them. The anonymous artist, who goes by the name “Wanksy,”…
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The Value Menu
Read more: The Value MenuThis is continued exploration of some work I recently had published for a culture jam project in response to the documentary “The Corporation”. There are a lot of layers working here. There are thoughts about food deserts, how multinational corporations…
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Sunaura Taylor
Read more: Sunaura TaylorSunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist. Through painting, printmaking, writing and other forms of political and artistic engagement her work intervenes with dominant historical narratives of disability and animal oppression. Taylor’s artworks have been exhibited at venues across…
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Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood
Read more: Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine SherwoodBrain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood by Georgina Kleege A psychiatrist friend of mine looking at a painting by Katherine Sherwood hanging near my front door, instantly saw it as an image of the brain, and…
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Her/She Senses: Imag(in)ed Malady
Read more: Her/She Senses: Imag(in)ed MaladyTina Takemoto is an artist and associate professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work examines issues of race, queer identity, memory, and grief. Her current project explores the hidden dimensions of same-sex…
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The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in Spain
Read more: The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in SpainEven though Spain is constitutionally defined as a non-confessional nation, the Catholic Church still holds great power. For example, the Catholic Church is exempt from paying certain taxes, and can reclaim certain buildings as their property. This often creates frictions…
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The Dollar Menu
Read more: The Dollar MenuEver get to thinking about how a food desert can pop up in the middle of a major city? One major reason is corporate fast food and manufactured goods. Food deserts are defined as urban neighborhoods and rural towns without…
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Vespa for Change
Read more: Vespa for ChangeFundacion Voces and Festival Mulafest got together to promote creative ideas for social change. They started a campaign in social media to ask people to donate their Vespa motorcycles. After they collected the Vespas donated by the people, they put…
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The Wack Donalds Project and Mr One Teas
Read more: The Wack Donalds Project and Mr One TeasA French illustrator/painter/graphic designer from Nice who also has had shows in galleries in Monaco, Mr OneTeas is known to some as a graffiti artist who samples pop culture on his canvasses and appropriates commonly recognizable images of Hollywood names…