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public art
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We Declare The World as Our Canvass
Read more: We Declare The World as Our CanvassThe website ‘Street art utopia’ has an amazing collection of pictures of street art from Belgium, NYC, to Brazil and Israel Palestine. Talented people sharing their art publicly for the streets and the world to see! Activism: reclaiming a public…
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Read more: Stop Telling Women to SmileStop Telling Women to Smile is a street art project by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh that addresses gender based street harassment. Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project attempts to take women’s voices, and faces, and…
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Connecting Peace Day and Valentine’s Day
Read more: Connecting Peace Day and Valentine’s DayValentine Peace Project (VPP) Community Valentine actions started on the streets of Los Angeles with the sharing of thousands of poems on peace and expressions of love given out wrapped around carnations and later Fairtrade roses. Students also made paper…
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Reverse Graffiti
Read more: Reverse GraffitiReverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime. They…
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Honduran Graffiti Artist Uses Street Art to Protest Violence
Read more: Honduran Graffiti Artist Uses Street Art to Protest ViolenceIn the capital of one of the world’s most dangerous countries, a hooded, masked man jumped out of a car on an assault mission. His target: a crumbling wall on a garbage-strewn corner. With his accomplice acting as lookout, the…
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“Human Cost” Oily Protest at the Tate
Read more: “Human Cost” Oily Protest at the TateOn the one-year anniversary of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artist-activists at Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla performance in the Tate Britain galleries to highlight the museum’s ties to BP. The peformance: “A naked member…
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I Wish this Was
Read more: I Wish this WasI Wish This Was began in New Orleans in November 2010. It was inspired by vacant storefronts. There are a lot of them where Candy lives in New Orleans. There are also a lot of people who need and want…
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Natural Intervention
Read more: Natural InterventionGerman Forests Come Alive Through Creative ‘Natural Intervention ‘ “Some think that every tree has a soul. It’s hard not to agree after a walk in the woods, surrounded by these beautifully imposing creatures that creak, sway and at times…
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Syrian Museum: “The Kiss”
Read more: Syrian Museum: “The Kiss”“A new photographic work created by Ayyam Gallery artist Tammam Azzam has captured the imaginations of the world, going viral and being shared across social media as a symbol of the power of love and human spirit in times of…
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Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art
Read more: Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public ArtHuff Post Latino Politics The Huffington Post While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest against the violence. Last Sunday, activists met on Mexico…