Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Autel de Lycée Chases (“Altar to the Chases High School”)
Read more: Autel de Lycée Chases (“Altar to the Chases High School”)Text taken from website: By appropriating mementos of other people’s lives and placing them in an art context, Boltanski explores the power of photography to transcend individual identity and to function instead as a witness to collective rituals and shared…
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Los Intocables
Read more: Los IntocablesA CUBAN artist’s controversial photographs of children being hung from crosses has landed him in hot water. Erik Ravelo took a series of photos of children hung like Jesus from a cross, but in the place of the cross were…
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Chinese Artist Creates Hall Of Fame Portraits Of Corrupt Officials
Read more: Chinese Artist Creates Hall Of Fame Portraits Of Corrupt OfficialsChinese Artist Zhang Bingjian has embarked on an artistic project to promote transparency in China and Chinese government. His motivation? Discovering the extent of the corruption going on in his country. Zhang told the Toronto Star: “The chief prosecutor announced…
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AIDS Quilt Goes Digital
Read more: AIDS Quilt Goes DigitalWith more than 48,000 panels and 94,000 names, the AIDS quilt is a constantly growing testament to the deadly toll the disease has taken on the world. At roughly 1.3 million square feet, it is so large that it can’t…
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THE SLAVE SERIES: QUILTS BY GWENDOLYN A. MAGEE
Read more: THE SLAVE SERIES: QUILTS BY GWENDOLYN A. MAGEEThe image is stark. And shocking. A black man, his ankles shackled, his head hanging away from the viewer, stands in relief on a field of white. Chains stretching to the image’s borders on the left and right pull his…
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Can Graffiti Remake Egypt?
Read more: Can Graffiti Remake Egypt?Last week, a dozen of female artists turned the walls of a downtown parking lot in Cairo into a street art gallery. Colourful group murals carrying personal stories and spreading messages to increase women’s visibility, and positively affect public consciousness.…
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GRAFFITI ARTISTS GIVEN MASSIVE EMPTY WAREHOUSE AND UNLIMITED PAINT
Read more: GRAFFITI ARTISTS GIVEN MASSIVE EMPTY WAREHOUSE AND UNLIMITED PAINTThese graffiti artists were given carte blanche over an entire warehouse to do with what they wanted. The result? Everything from the soundtrack from the videography, editing and the painting is just absolute brilliance. External sources: http://www.trippapparel.com/2013/15056 http://unlooker.com/graffiti-artists-given-massive-empty-wharehouse-unlimited-pa…
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Heidelberg Project
Read more: Heidelberg ProjectThe Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in Detroit, Michigan. It was created in 1986 by artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather Sam Mackey (“Grandpa Sam”) as an outdoor art environment in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the city’s east…
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iPod’s Dirty Secrete
Read more: iPod’s Dirty SecreteThe Neistat Brothers first attracted public attention in 2003 with their blatantly critical work, iPod’s Dirty Secret. After being refused a replacement battery for an 18-month old iPod, [they] took to the streets of Manhattan on their bikes to sabotage…
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Chicano Murals
Read more: Chicano MuralsIn El Paso more than 100 murals have been painted since the mid-1960s. The murals, located throughout the city’s various corridors, often depict themes common to Chicano muralism, such as mestizo heritage or social problems, but they also tell unique…