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culture
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Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia’s The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey
Read more: Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia’s The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui OdysseyThe Couple in the Cage documents the travelling performance of Guillermo Gómez -Peña and Coco Fusco, in which they exhibited themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island. While the artists’ intent was to create a satirical commentary on the…
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The Wisdom of the Universe
Read more: The Wisdom of the UniverseThe Wisdom of the Universe was painted in 2014 by Métis artist, author, and activist Christi Belcourt. Based in Northeastern Ontario, Belcourt is best known for her large-scale acrylic paintings — like this one — that use hundreds of thousands…
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The American Library
Read more: The American LibraryDebuting at Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, July 14 – September 30 for FRONTart 2018 is ‘The American Library’ by Yinka Shonibare MBE, a celebration of the diversity of the American population. It aims to be an instigator of discovery…
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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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Pop Art as Social Commentary
Read more: Pop Art as Social CommentaryA Côte d’Ivoire-based artist, known as Kadarick, draws on the fantastical powers of The Hulk, Spiderman and Wonder Woman to articulate today’s fears. In a new pop-art series of 23 paintings titled Joker, the self-taught painter explores pop culture, politics,…
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Immigrant Movement International
Read more: Immigrant Movement InternationalImmigrant Movement International (IM) is a community space in the heavily immigrant neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Founded in 2011 as a partnership between artist Tania Bruguera and the Queens Museum, with support from Creative Time, the project, inspired by Bruguera’s…
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Anibal Lopez– One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma Avenue
Read more: Anibal Lopez– One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma AvenueAníbal López, also known by his government identification number A-153167, is a pioneer of performance art in Central America. ArtBus describes his work as, “Generally aimed at immersing viewers into the region’s social and political tensions, his works combine the…
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Creative activism and the remaking of Palestine
Read more: Creative activism and the remaking of PalestineCreative activism and the remaking of Palestine While policy wonks and media pundits wallow in endless debates about Jewish settlements and the threat of terror, Palestinian groups are creatively exploring alternative ways to realise their national aspirations. In an unassuming…
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Green Map UAE
Read more: Green Map UAEGreen Map UAE is a place to pin, share, and quite literally, map out locations or events that are unique ecologically, culturally and considered civic resources near home or while traveling within the UAE. This portal, apart of a larger…