Projects tagged
North Africa
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The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980
Read more: The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980James Fuentes 55 Delancey Street Lower East Side Through April 27 This messy scrapbook of an exhibition reprises “The Real Estate Show,” a semifamous exhibition that opened on New Year’s Eve 1979 in a vacant, city-owned building on Delancey Street.…
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Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”
Read more: Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”This 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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‘Calligraffiti’ Artist El Seed Makes Tunisia His Canvas
Read more: ‘Calligraffiti’ Artist El Seed Makes Tunisia His CanvasThe minaret of the Jara Mosque in Gabes towers over its surroundings. Formed of golden brick, it jolts up from the flat, sand-colored cityscape around it, all the better to broadcast the call to prayer across the coastal city. But…
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Project Catalyst
Read more: Project CatalystProject Catalyst specializes in designing culturally rich entertainment experiences that re-imagine the empowering possibilities of cinema and media from a multicultural perspective. Project Catalyst exemplifies the efficacy and essential value of art and cinema at the intersections of social justice…
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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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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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The Last American Indian On Earth
Read more: The Last American Indian On Earth“The Last American Indian on Earth”, a performance art piece by Gregg Deal,a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe originally based in northwestern Nevada.The project documents what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of…
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NannyVan
Read more: NannyVanReversing decades of discrimination set into place when New Deal labor laws intentionally excluded domestic workers, New York State in 2010 passed the very first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Hawaii and California followed soon after with other states soon…
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Music’s influential role on Egypt’s presidential campaign
Read more: Music’s influential role on Egypt’s presidential campaignWhen the revolution began in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, music played a big role in galvanizing young people and giving them a voice. So it’s not surprising that music continues to play an important role in Egyptian politics as the presidential…
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Colombian Hip Hop Goes up a Stage in Morocco
Read more: Colombian Hip Hop Goes up a Stage in MoroccoThe Colombian hip hop had an outstanding representation with the C15 group in the Fabrica of Rimas International Festival, a gathering of urban cultures, sponsored by Morocco, Colombia and Spain. Enrolled in the Plan Colombia Promotion Abroad, sponsored by the…