Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Angel Azul
Read more: Angel AzulAngel Azul is an environmental documentary that follows the work of eco-sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor. Jason creates artificial coral reefs from statues he’s cast from live models and installed on the ocean floor in an underwater museum off the coast…
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Wall Hunters: The Slumlord Project
Read more: Wall Hunters: The Slumlord ProjectWallhunter’s Slumlord Project is an innovative project in Baltimore, Maryland that will use street art to expose and publicize vacant and dilapidated housing and the responsible parties for those conditions. The project will use different street art forms to display…
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The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Read more: The Grace Period Blog/Performance“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a…
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HeadSpace Magazine
Read more: HeadSpace MagazineExpress and Create, Solidarity and Support” is a slogan that summarises the aims of HeadSpace, a new, non-profit, artistic magazine that accepts submissions on the theme of mental health. It is entirely run by volunteers and mostly distributed for free…
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Bon Appetit
Read more: Bon AppetitCreative Graffiti at the Urban Culture Festival in Germany By Loredana Loy A street art project by by KD Key Detail from Minsk, Belarus–created and featured at the IBUg 2013 Urban Culture Festival in Zwickau, Germany. The project is entitled…
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Artist Wages Drone War on Thomas Kinkade
Read more: Artist Wages Drone War on Thomas KinkadeThere are few artists more innocuous, more neutered, more universally loved and reviled than Thomas Kinkade. His soft-focus images present an idyllic vision of America and of Christianity, like Norman Rockwell without the blue-collar populism, where everything is beautiful, nothing…
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DODDOACID
Read more: DODDOACIDJenny Hozler has mined declassified U.S. government documents for the series Redaction Paintings meticulously silk-screened works that depict blacked-out handprints of American soldiers accused of committing crimes in Iraq. The idea for the Redaction Paintings came in 2004 when Wired…
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New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / Blackmail
Read more: New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / BlackmailThe prints exhibited June 2013 at Firestorm in Asheville NC, will comprise two separate bodies of work; Chelsea Ragan’s combination screen print / woodblock print / painting / drawings graphically detail police shootings of young black males from across the…
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Foreigners Everywhere
Read more: Foreigners EverywhereThe Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine displays a neon sign that spells the words ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ in Arabic. Since this sign was installed strategically above the gallery’s wall-length window – facing in the street – in the edition of the show…
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Picasso In Palestine
Read more: Picasso In PalestineLast Friday, Pablo Picasso’s Buste de Femme, (1943), was put on display at the International Art Academy Palestine in Ramallah. Marking the very first time that the Picasso’s work has been shown in Palestine and as the result of a…