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Gentrification
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#DontMuteDC and Moechella Protest
Read more: #DontMuteDC and Moechella ProtestIn response to white gentrifiers trying to silence go-go music on the corners of Florida Avenue and 7th Avenue, activists and D.C. residents poured into the streets by blasting go-go music and celebrating its rich history within the city. For…
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Los Palcos del Descubridor (The discoverer’s box seats)
Read more: Los Palcos del Descubridor (The discoverer’s box seats)“Los Palcos del Descubridor” (The Discoverer’s Box Seats) was a project created by Sebastian Burga and José Aburto in 2012 that consisted of a large-scale installation on the street and a media campaign on the Internet. The work simulated the…
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Effects of Gentrification in Madrid
Read more: Effects of Gentrification in MadridEl Rey de la Ruina (The King of the Ruin) has become an act of powerful recognizable symbolism throughout Madrid. In terms of his popular heart symbolism, the artist chose the organ, a heart, as one of his favorite symbols…
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Documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico
Read more: Documentary Vietnam, Puerto RicoPuerto Rico doesn’t know what’s going on here, and if they do, they’re ignoring us.” So opens Gabriel Miranda’s documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico. Focused on the coastal community of Vietnam, which is located in the Guaynabo, the doc tells the…
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“Si 8 Do” Seville Poop Project
Read more: “Si 8 Do” Seville Poop ProjectIn the Si 8 Do project, Seville activists convened in a neglected barrio during the Euromediterranean Conference on Sustainable Cities, which was taking place in Seville. To protest the city’s housing policies—selling prime public land to wealthy developers, and neglecting…
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Response to James Cohan Gallery (October 19th, 2017)
Read more: Response to James Cohan Gallery (October 19th, 2017)October 19, 2017 The Chinatown Art Brigade is not surprised that James Cohan gallery’s immediate reaction to Sunday’s organized action would be to cry censorship, and also simultaneously claim that our protest was exactly what their artist intended. In an…
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Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike
Read more: Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hikeBrooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike The owners of an imperiled Boerum Hill deli have staged an “artisanal takeover” of their 25-year-old corner store, re-branding products with yuppified names and jacking up prices to illustrate the…
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Vacated
Read more: VacatedVacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning’s PLUTO dataset, and it leverages…
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#SaveNYC
Read more: #SaveNYC#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, DIY movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores…
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JEREMIAH’S VANISHING NEW YORK
Read more: JEREMIAH’S VANISHING NEW YORKThis blogger documents all the cool things that are on their way to extinction in New York. A mix of preserving history and nostalgia through old school photography and new media. This website creates a nostalgic internet record of pre-internet New…