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Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”
Read more: Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”This month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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Grammys featured on-air weddings of 34 couples
Read more: Grammys featured on-air weddings of 34 couplesLOS ANGELES — At the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, pop’s megastars will compete for the music industry’s most prestigious trophy, and put on flashy performances that are sure to ricochet through social media. But the producers behind the program,…
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Same Love
Read more: Same LoveThe rap duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis has broken records with their hits “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us.” And now, with their pro-marriage equality hit “Same Love,” which features out lesbian Mary Lambert, they’re shattering stereotypes. Just as “Same…
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#ShoutingBack with Coasters
Read more: #ShoutingBack with CoastersThe group of NYU graduate students went to bars in Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with coasters that said “#shoutingback” on them, as well as a slogan. Three different…
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#ShoutingBack with Business Cards
Read more: #ShoutingBack with Business CardsThe group of students from NYU took to the streets of Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with business cards that said “#shoutingback” on one side, and “Real men don’t…
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Ausencias
Read more: Ausencias“On 17 December 1976, 18-year-old Eduardo Raúl Germano was abducted in Rosario, Argentina. Following the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état, Gustavo Germano, Eduardo’s brother, began working on the photography exhibition “Ausencias” (Absences). Born in 1964…
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The Dark Side of Creative Activism – Sudanese Refugees in Tel Aviv
Read more: The Dark Side of Creative Activism – Sudanese Refugees in Tel AvivUnfortunately, those who struggle for a more equal and democratic society are not the only ones who can make use of creative forms of activism. The following example shows how creative strategies can also be employed by those who have…
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Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America
Read more: Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America(Taken from Group’s Event Statement): “The big banks have been playing monopoly with our money & our homes. On Saturday July 14th, as part of #J20 Bring the Fight Back to the Banks Week, let’s return the favor…” “While drawing…
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Money Shouldn’t Talk Silent Vigils & Marches
Read more: Money Shouldn’t Talk Silent Vigils & MarchesBeginning in January 2012, MicCheckWallSt, a subsidiary of Seattle’s Occupy Wall Street group, began performing a series of silent vigils and marches throughout shopping areas and in front of banks in various Seattle neighborhoods. Images are from the first silent…
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UK Brandalism Campaign
Read more: UK Brandalism CampaignFrom Glasgow to Brighton the streets of the UK looked a little different the morning of Monday 5/12/14. In 10 cities around the UK guerrilla install crews have been swapping over 300 ads with art works, creating the largest advertising…
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Storm of the White House (Moscow)
Read more: Storm of the White House (Moscow)Voina art collective members covertly brought a large laser projector into the attic room of a hotel located across the street from the Russian White house (also called the Russian Parliament Building). From there they projected a large image of…
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The Art World’s New Gang War
Read more: The Art World’s New Gang WarThe Nahmads have been dealers in Modern art since Giuseppe Nahmad set up in Milan in 1957. But they have been the Warren Buffetts of the business, sticking to the tried and true. Now Joseph Nahmad, one of Giuseppe’s grandsons,…