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The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.
Read more: The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.“Works in Progress” highlights artists across a range of disciplines whose work deals with ecological themes. Considering the particular role that artists play in the climate movement, this column shares their voices and provides a glimpse behind the curtain into…
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the Fundred Project
Read more: the Fundred ProjectThe Fundred Dollar Bill Project, initiated by artist Mel Chin, is a collaborative art project aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing action against the environmental and health threat of lead contamination. It encourages individuals to create their own unique interpretations…
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Bed Stuy Aquarium
Read more: Bed Stuy AquariumThe Bed-Stuy “aquarium” is back. The neighborhood’s beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week — in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the city cemented over the original and left the neighborhood’s goldfish to die.…
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Unleashing the Power of Art Through Artistic Resources: PIGMENT TOKYO Creates a Canvas Embracing People, Knowledge, and the Art of Tomorrow
Read more: Unleashing the Power of Art Through Artistic Resources: PIGMENT TOKYO Creates a Canvas Embracing People, Knowledge, and the Art of TomorrowEstablished in 2015 in the Tennōzu neighborhood of Tokyo, and attracting industry professionals and art enthusiasts from both Japan and abroad, PIGMENT TOKYO has emerged as an art supply store specializing in the materials and tools used in traditional Japanese…
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Artist Rufina Bazlova uses embroidery as a form of ‘gentle protest’
Read more: Artist Rufina Bazlova uses embroidery as a form of ‘gentle protest’Rufina Bazlova is not afraid to surrender her art to activism. Born in Belarus, a former Soviet republic ruled by the authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko for 29 years now, Bazlova knows all too well that being apolitical is a privilege…
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Drawing the line: meet the Romanian artist-activist tackling world crises one cartoon at a time
Read more: Drawing the line: meet the Romanian artist-activist tackling world crises one cartoon at a timeDan Perjovschi is one of Romania’s foremost artistic voices. Although known as a talented multi-disciplinary artist in his home country, particularly for his early performance work, he is most widely known internationally for his massive drawing installations. Executed directly onto…
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Future Vote
Read more: Future VoteThis project is a participatory art action initiated by the Action Office in 2024. Action Office called up Chinese citizens in mainland China to transfer their voting rights for what they believe will be their first participation in the election…
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CAMILO GODOY: RENACEMOS A CADA INSTANTE
Read more: CAMILO GODOY: RENACEMOS A CADA INSTANTEAs the New Museum’s 2023–24 Artist-in-Residence, Camilo Godoy will create a performance exploring movement, breathing, and mourning practices. The title of his residency is borrowed from an embroidered work made by the queer Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión in 1995, the…
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Beyond AI WeiWei
Read more: Beyond AI WeiWeiIn a gallery in Hong Kong’s Chai Wan district last week, during the city’s third annual installment of the international Art Basel fair, the Beijing-based artist Huang Rui introduced a new live work called “Red Black White Grey.” At the…
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Wired in Disability Arts
Read more: Wired in Disability ArtsSerene colors and technical set pieces create a surreal ambience as performers delicately hover into the black void above the stage. These performers belong to Kinetic Light, an “internationally-recognized disability arts ensemble”. In 2022, the ensemble performed Wired, a “potent…