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Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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The Rage Against the Machine Performance That Got Them Banned From ‘SNL’
Read more: The Rage Against the Machine Performance That Got Them Banned From ‘SNL’Rage Against the Machine have always been rabble rousers, but the political statement that got them banned from Saturday Night Live sounds positively prosaic compared to other acts of protest they committed in their heyday, like shutting down the New…
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This Clothing Line Tricks AI Cameras Without Covering Your Face
Read more: This Clothing Line Tricks AI Cameras Without Covering Your FaceA start-up has launched a line of clothing that confuses artificial intelligence (AI) cameras and stops them from recognizing the wearer. Italian start-up Cap_able is offering its first collection of knitted garments that shields the wearer from the facial recognition…
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Use Art to heal the world
Read more: Use Art to heal the worldI must first come clean, I studied fine arts in high school from years nine to 12. Since my studies were concluded, I had never held a paintbrush again. Although the teachers were largely inspiring and wonderfully bohemian as one…
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Vivienne Westwood: Fashion and Activism
Read more: Vivienne Westwood: Fashion and ActivismVivienne Westwood began designing in 1971 along with her then partner Malcolm McLaren in London. At the time, they used their shop at 430 Kings Road, London, to showcase their ideas and designs. With their changing ideas of fashion came…
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American Born Chinese
Read more: American Born ChineseAmerican Born Chinese is a graphic novel published in 2006 by the American author and illustrator Gene Luen Yang. Through three interweaving stories that span from the 16th century to the present, the novel explores issues of Chinese American identity,…
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Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of Australia
Read more: Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of AustraliaTwo climate activists scrawled blue ink across a series of Andy Warhol screen prints at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia this week to raise awareness of the country’s fossil fuel subsidies. Images and video of the protest…
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Mile-long bus museum honoring children killed by gun violence heads to Ted Cruz’s Texas home
Read more: Mile-long bus museum honoring children killed by gun violence heads to Ted Cruz’s Texas homeArticle written by Katy Barber: A mile-long procession of school buses are headed to Sen. Ted Cruz’s home in Houston on Thursday, July 14. Thursday’s roll-out is the official start of The Yellow Bus Project and Cruz’s house is the…
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Protests, sainthoods and unapologetic queer joy: The secret history of the secular LGBT+ nuns
Read more: Protests, sainthoods and unapologetic queer joy: The secret history of the secular LGBT+ nunsAs she puts the finishing touches to her habit, Sister Clarita, a Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles, tells me that there are more than 3,000 LGBT+ nuns around the world. They’re part of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an…
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Remembering
Read more: RememberingIn 2009, the dissident artist created a work to honour the thousands of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake. He recalls how the project, Remembering, angered China’s rulers – and changed his career for ever This is an edited…
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Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism
Read more: Street Art Activism: What White People Call VandalismIn this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how…
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CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students
Read more: CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students“As an educator, I want people to have a sense of empowerment. I want them to have ownership of their own creative experience. It’s a very humane thing knowing we are inherently creative.” CFA member Mark Allan Davis’s “artivism” is…
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Why Did Francis Alÿs Push A Block Of Ice For 9 Hours?
Read more: Why Did Francis Alÿs Push A Block Of Ice For 9 Hours?What is Francis Alÿs known for? Francis Alÿs is known for using poetic and metaphorical techniques to highlight the political and social realities of his city. Often, the issues he addresses range from national border politics to globalism and areas…