Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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If I Don’t Get Pants Nobody Gets Pants
Read more: If I Don’t Get Pants Nobody Gets PantsSubmission for The Line is Drawn, theme “Male superheroes see how the other side lives”. Wonder Woman makes the rest of the JLA wear various costumes she’s had over the years. External sources: http://theamat.deviantart.com/art/If-I-don-t-get-pants-nobody-gets-pants-2880251…
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The Sahmat Collective
Read more: The Sahmat CollectiveIn 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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Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagement
Read more: Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagementJosep Renau Berenguer was a Spanish painter, photomontager, muralist and communist militant. Renau was the son of an Art teacher. Due to his father’s low income, he had to work various jobs during his youth and teenage years to maintain…
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Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artist
Read more: Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artistBy a pond inside one of the entrances to Beijing’s Chaoyang Park lies a cluster of one and two storey red pyramid-shaped buildings. Sculptures of Gandhi and Lincoln and other famous figures sit in the quiet woods nearby. This is…
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What I Couldn’t Say In Public
Read more: What I Couldn’t Say In Public“What I Couldn’t Say in Public” transforms individual secrets into a public, anonymous spectacle. While origins and exact location of the “What I Couldn’t Say in Public” project are unknown, awareness about the project has grown over the micro-blogging platform…
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Djerbahood
Read more: DjerbahoodDjerbahood Project, which took place during the months of July and August on a small island called Djerba and is located in the Gulf of Gabes. Better known as the island of dreams, the tiny village of Djerba boasts a…
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Blu Gets Political in Mexico
Read more: Blu Gets Political in MexicoItalian street artist Blu was recently in Mexico to participate at the ManifestoMX Street Art Festival where he completed this intense and politically charged mural in opposition to the Mexican authorities. The new Blu mural that appeared in MexicoDF, titled…
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The Crossroads Project
Read more: The Crossroads ProjectThis month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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The Realist
Read more: The RealistAsaf Hanuka is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Tel Aviv, Israel. His illustrations span the themes of technology, revolution, war, Judaism, and depictions of family life and the individual in modern day society. While also employed for commercial illustrations…
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On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens.
Read more: On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens.On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens. British street artist Banksy has posted pictures and video of works made during a trip to the war-torn Gaza Strip. One shows a figure reminiscent of Rodin’s “The Thinker” —…