Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Acción Poética
Read more: Acción PoéticaThe Acción Poética movement is a literary phenomenon that began in Monterrey, Mexico in 1996. It was founded by Mexican poet Armando Alanis Pulido and involves painting and intervening abandoned walls in cities with fragments of poetry. The content is…
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Africa’s Political Cartoons
Read more: Africa’s Political CartoonsTejumola Olaniyan founded Africacartoons.com, the first continent-wide digital encyclopaedia of political cartoons by African artists. The primary motivation for starting Africa Cartoons was to stimulate more scholarly interest in African cartoons. The secondary motivation was to entertain enthusiasts of cartoons…
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Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottles
Read more: Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottlesAll those who practice surfing know firsthand the serious problem our beaches face: pollution. While some only complain, others do something about it. Two Brazilian surfers decided they could help raise public awareness of the need to protect nature of…
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“Great Men” – Marlene Dumas at Manifesta 10
Read more: “Great Men” – Marlene Dumas at Manifesta 10AMSTERDAM — “When I was in the army, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.” So reads the text beneath a haunting ink-and-metallic acrylic portrait of Leonard Maltovich, an American veteran of…
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Hijabizing Dolce & Gabbana
Read more: Hijabizing Dolce & GabbanaPrincess Hijab is an anonymous female street artist working primarily in Paris, France. Her art centres on veiling the main characters of subway advertisements using black paint. Few facts are known about Princess Hijab. “Guerrilla art is innocent and criminal,…
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Prague’s Lennon Wall
Read more: Prague’s Lennon WallPrague’s Lennon Wall is a tourist attraction to some, and a participatory street art haven for others. Directly opposite of the French embassy, the wall has been filled with evolving art and graffiti since the 80s. The wall received its…
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Chinese Contemporary Artist Liao Guohe’s “Bad Paintings” on Exhibition in Nanjing
Read more: Chinese Contemporary Artist Liao Guohe’s “Bad Paintings” on Exhibition in NanjingLiao Guohe’s solo exhibition —-“Satisfaction Guaranteed”, the first-time all-round summary of his paintings in last 10 years, is held from November 14, 2014 to March 14, 2015 at Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China. As the only one of his…
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Hypothetical Development Organization
Read more: Hypothetical Development OrganizationMembers of this organization begin the narrative process by examining city neighborhoods and commercial districts for compelling structures that appear to have fallen into disuse —“hidden gems” of the built environment. In varying states of repair, these buildings suggest only…
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Building an Ark for the big climate rally
Read more: Building an Ark for the big climate rallyFour months ago, I was in a multifaith brainstorm for the People’s Climate March when someone said, “What if we had a giant ark?” I think we all had the same reaction: Great … but how do you build an…
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Lyrical Thirst
Read more: Lyrical ThirstWithout water, life would not exist. And yet, those of us in developed countries take it for granted; our shelves are stocked with hundreds of branded bottles, and it is freely given at restaurants, at schools, and even in parks.…