Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Lt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme Band
Read more: Lt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme BandLt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme BandJohn Heartfield it’s not, but the viral photocollage campaign immortalizing the nonchalant thuggery of Lt. John Pike, the campus policeman at UC Davis who was documented on Friday, November 18, pepper-spraying peacefully seated Occupy-movement protesters,…
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Color-Cycling
Read more: Color-CyclingCiclo-Color February 7, 2012, www.mastamagazine.net Having a bike as vehicle and paint as a tool, “Bici-Brochas” brings new colourful lines to the asphalt and, according to the chosen route, leaves a hint of colour that breaks up with the sobriety…
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Support Breasts, Not Dictators
Read more: Support Breasts, Not DictatorsBarbed-wire bra protest over Burma investment BBC News Monday, 10 December, 2001 Triumph International, a leading European luxury lingerie firm, is facing a fierce boycott campaign because of its operations in Burma. Under the slogan “Support Breasts – not Dictators”,…
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Senator Protests with the F-Word
Read more: Senator Protests with the F-WordSen. Judy Eason McIntyre, of Tulsa, protests anti-abortion bill with F-word www.newsok.com By Megan Rolland | Published: February 29, 2012 Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre, a Democrat from Tulsa, joined protesters of a proposed fetal personhood bill Tuesday on the north…
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Above’s Blood Diamond
Read more: Above’s Blood DiamondAfrica has had a devastating history of blood diamond wars. Blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and then sold to finance an invading army’s war efforts, usually in Africa where more than two-thirds of the…
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At War With São Paulo’s Establishment, Black Paint in Hand
Read more: At War With São Paulo’s Establishment, Black Paint in HandNew York Times January 28, 2012 By SIMON ROMERO SÃO PAULO, Brazil — This mega-city’s authorities have waged war for years against what they call “visual pollution,” banning billboard advertising, demolishing abandoned skyscrapers and planning to raze concrete eyesores like…
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Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art
Read more: Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public ArtHuff Post Latino Politics The Huffington Post While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest against the violence. Last Sunday, activists met on Mexico…
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Gowanus Art Collective Is The Epicenter of ‘Occupy’ Art
Read more: Gowanus Art Collective Is The Epicenter of ‘Occupy’ ArtThe Brooklyn Paper March 26, 2012 BY ELI ROSENBERG Occupy Wall Street wants to occupy your wall space. A collective of poster printers in Gowanus is attempting to help reignite the social movement’s flames for a May 1 “General Strike,”…
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Street Artists Turn Fur Coats into Wild Animal Graffiti Protest
Read more: Street Artists Turn Fur Coats into Wild Animal Graffiti ProtestBy Joe Laur Members of the creative collective Neozoon, a group of artists based in Paris and Berlin, are staging a protest against using animal furs as fashion by turning fur coats into street art graffiti. Apparently, they are taking…
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Read more: Barbie Liberation OrganizationNew York Times, DAVID FIRESTONE, Published: December 31, 1993 Your son tears the wrapping paper off his fierce new “Talking Duke” G. I. Joe doll and eagerly presses the talk button. Out comes a painfully chirpy voice that sounds astonishingly…