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Art
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Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chicken art project
Read more: Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chicken art projectFebruary 29, 2012 The Kansas City Star By Jessica Blakeborough The chickens have been granted a stay of execution. City codes prevent Amber Hansen, a Lawrence artist, from displaying and then butchering chickens for an art project, a city official…
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Sudanese Activist Artist Breaks Down Borders
Read more: Sudanese Activist Artist Breaks Down BordersVOA NEWS March 29, 2012 By Nico Colombant WASHINGTON–A Sudanese artist from the restive Blue Nile region is using art and activism to promote the plight of people caught between borders and conflict. In an audio montage of memories…
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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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Myanmar’s Young Artists and Activists
Read more: Myanmar’s Young Artists and ActivistsIn the country formerly known as Burma, these free thinkers are a force in the struggle for democracy. By Joshua Hammer Photographs by Adam Dean Smithsonian Magazine, March 2011 Editor’s Note, April 3, 2012: The election of Daw Aung San…