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painting
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Climate Protestor Smears Pink Paint on Tom Thomson Painting at National Gallery of Canada
Read more: Climate Protestor Smears Pink Paint on Tom Thomson Painting at National Gallery of CanadaA climate activist smeared pink paint on a Tom Thomson artwork at the National Gallery of Canada as part of activities this week drawing attention to demands for a national firefighting service. A video uploaded to Facebook by the group…
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A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US
Read more: A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the USNORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity. The 1,281 garments represent the number…
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Sunaura Taylor
Read more: Sunaura TaylorSunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist. Through painting, printmaking, writing and other forms of political and artistic engagement her work intervenes with dominant historical narratives of disability and animal oppression. Taylor’s artworks have been exhibited at venues across…
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Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood
Read more: Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine SherwoodBrain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood by Georgina Kleege A psychiatrist friend of mine looking at a painting by Katherine Sherwood hanging near my front door, instantly saw it as an image of the brain, and…
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The Many Faces of Yue Minjun
Read more: The Many Faces of Yue MinjunBy NAZANIN LANKARANI PARIS — Five years after his rise to the top of the Chinese contemporary art market, Yue Minjun has something new to smile about. Best known for his large-scale paintings depicting his own smiling face, Mr. Yue,…
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Bloodline: Big Family
Read more: Bloodline: Big FamilyThe immediate prototypes of Zhang Xiaogang’s Big Family series are formal group photographic portraits from the 1950’s and 60’s, including those of Zhang’s own family, a source of the painter’s “endless reveries.” From these old black-and-white pictures Zhang Xiaogang derived…
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“Las sinsombrero”: Bare heads against the tyranny of being respectable.
Read more: “Las sinsombrero”: Bare heads against the tyranny of being respectable.“Las sinsombrero” (“without hat”) were a group of spanish women formed by the artists Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, Concha Méndez and the socialist activist Margarita Nelken. During the 20s they were part of Madrid’s artistic and intellectual scene, and they…
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100 Faces of War Experience
Read more: 100 Faces of War ExperienceOn completion the 100 Faces project will consist of 100 Portraits of Americans who have been to the theaters of war in Iraq or Afghanistan (OEF,OIF). Each portrait is accompanied by a placard featuring a statement written by the person…
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Stretch The Strangle Hold
Read more: Stretch The Strangle HoldAmerican Painter, Joe Lovett completes painting of historic magnitude, Stretch the Strangle Hold is a painting that captures an emotional response to the lie of war. After witnessing daily news reports exposing the political lies and the senseless death of…
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El Cerro
Read more: El CerroExcerpts from Chemi Rosado’s lecture at The Creative Time Summit 2011: “For me, there are four major aspects that this project has achieved: 1. It’s a Social Active work of art 2. The exchange of knowledge between people that normally…