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political art
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Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist
Read more: Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activistActor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — “Dumb and Dumber,” “The Mask,” “Liar Liar,” “Ace Ventura,” just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back…
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The Wack Donalds Project and Mr One Teas
Read more: The Wack Donalds Project and Mr One TeasA French illustrator/painter/graphic designer from Nice who also has had shows in galleries in Monaco, Mr OneTeas is known to some as a graffiti artist who samples pop culture on his canvasses and appropriates commonly recognizable images of Hollywood names…
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Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)
Read more: Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)In Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)”, Ana Teresa confronted the fence between the United States and Mexico by putting on her black dress and heels and painting the fence sky blue. On first viewing, the performance makes a simple…
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Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagement
Read more: Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagementJosep Renau Berenguer was a Spanish painter, photomontager, muralist and communist militant. Renau was the son of an Art teacher. Due to his father’s low income, he had to work various jobs during his youth and teenage years to maintain…
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Art in Exile: Women Without Men
Read more: Art in Exile: Women Without MenFor third world artists who are forced into exile, the creativity process could be greatly challenged due to displacement in language, community and history. Many filmmakers in exile tend to look at their connection to the homeland in strictly political…
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Occu-bot
Read more: Occu-botOccu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters. Management-bot, also known as the Financier, is a walking robot that accompanies the Occu-bot. It is made of two stepper motors…
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Dark Side of the Prism
Read more: Dark Side of the Prism“Dark Side of the Prism” is a Firefox Add-on that provides a soundtrack for our surveilled internet meanderings. The public recently learned that the US National Security Agency’s on-going internet surveillance program, Prism, collects data from users of major websites.…
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The State of Things
Read more: The State of ThingsThe State of Things was first performed in the spring of 2006 on the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq war. On September 1st, 2008 in collaboration with Northern Lights as part of the UnConvention, Ligorano/Reese recreated The State of Thing’s…
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Sculptures of Rebellion
Read more: Sculptures of RebellionDavid Černý has been called “l’enfant terrible” of Czech art. Since 1991, Černý continues to produce some of Czech Republic’s most famous political sculptures. His grand sculptures are almost always mocking the system through humor. Many of his well-known pieces…