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2016
Anna Chaborai

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'On The Borderline' - An Exhibition of Artwork created by individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Practitioner:
Borderline Arts Team
Date:
Dec 1 2017
An Exhibition by talented Artists, giving an insight into their experience of life with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
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Share It To The End
Practitioner:
Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth
Date:
May 6 2014
To call attention to bullying, the Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth has released a video that gets shorter each time it is viewed. Hosted on a site called Share It To The End, the short animated video depicts a boy getting bullied at school and telling us he always feels alone and doesn’t feel safe anywhere.
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¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition
Practitioner:
Bronx Museum, Museo del Barrio, Loisaida INC
Date:
Jul 1 2015
Spread over three institutions — the Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem; and Loisaida Inc., a cultural center in the East Village — this show departs from straight political history by presenting the Young Lords as a cultural phenomenon as well as an ideological one, with a highly developed instinct for visual self-projection, right down to having an official party photographer, the gifted Hiram Maristany.
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"Turkish past, Ottoman present" and "Spengler in Turkey"
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch, Slavs and Tatars collective
Date:
Aug 5 2019
"Turkish past, Ottoman present" and "Spengler in Turkey" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 August 5, 11 am – August 30, 7 pm Monday – Friday, 11 am – 7 pm, free admission Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call (347) 662 1456 The artist is available for interviews
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Lipstick Handprint
Practitioner:
Auli'i Cravalho
Date:
Mar 23 2023
Auli'i Cravalho Makes Powerful Statement in Support of Missing Indigenous Women with Lipstick Handprint "I felt like I had to put my money where my mouth was," the actress said on the red carpet at the Power premiere By Michelle Lee Published on March 24, 2023 12:03 PM For Auli'i Cravalho, actions speak louder than words.
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Song 33
Practitioner:
Noname
Date:
Jun 18 2020
After J.Cole posted a song that implies that Noname can get her message across to a wider audience if she changes her tone, she releases another song in response. However, instead of explicitly responding to his critique, she uses the controversy to shed light on the death of Black female activist Oluwatoyin Salau, who was killed by her assaulter.
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calling to the creative community
Practitioner:
walk free
Date:
May 10 2015
Creative Leaders Walk Free is a movement of millions of people everywhere, fighting to end one of the world’s greatest evils: Modern Slavery. Every person in our community has something unique and valuable to add in the fight to ending modern slavery – will you help?
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Kimani Gray Barricades
Practitioner:
Not An Alternative
Date:
Mar 10 2013
"This project was launched in the wake of the police shooting of 16-year old Brooklyn resident Kimani Gray. Blue NYPD barricades left in piles around the city were spray-painted with the names of people killed by police, then re-deployed in public space."
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She Draws the Urgency of Climate Change
Practitioner:
Zaria Forman
Date:
Mar 15 2020
Her name is Zaria Forman, a leading artist in contemporary art with a cause. She is not only an exceptional human being; she is also an incredible American drawer who uses art to convey the emergency of climate change. Zaria’s ultra-realistic drawings explore moments of raw beauty, peace in the landscape, power in the ice and transition that allow the viewers to emotionally connect with places they may never see in real life.
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Christine Sun Kim
Practitioner:
Christine Sun Kim
Date:
Jan 1 2012
For artist Christine Sun Kim, sound is a "ghost." The multiple-MFA-holding Senior TED Fellow who has had a Whitney Museum residency and exhibited at MoMA, has been profoundly deaf since birth. The sonic hush in which she lives has pushed her towards exploring sound through her work in a varied oeuvre of performance, installation, drawing, and video.
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“Herstory” is the first comprehensive New York museum survey of work by Judy Chicago
Practitioner:
Judy Chicago
Date:
Oct 12 2023
“Judy Chicago: Herstory” will span Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place six decades of Chicago’s work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique Fourth Floor installation.
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4
Demonstealer Fights For a Better India Through Death Metal
Practitioner:
Demonstealer
Date:
Mar 23 2023
The Propaganda Machine is a battle cry delivered in the language of extreme metal. On Sahil Makhija’s fourth solo album as Demonstealer, he takes aim at the right-wing politicians, racist nationalists, disinformation artists, and religious extremists who manipulate and exploit the masses, in his native India and all over the world. He doesn’t mince his words; just about every lyric on the album could easily be printed on a protest sign.
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Occupy Sandy relief effort puts Occupy Wall Street activists in the spotlight again a year after Zuccotti Park
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Dec 5 2012
By Rebecca Davis and Meena Hart Duerson Those who believed the Occupy Wall Street movement was all but dead after its dramatic removal from Zuccotti Park last fall may have been surprised to see the group pop up again in the days after Hurricane Sandy. But this time, they weren’t organizing protests – they were calling on their large network to come to the aid of those hit hardest by the storm.
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Reframing Trash Into Art
Practitioner:
Vik Muniz
Date:
Sep 15 2008
In 2008, my work as an artist took me to a gigantic landfill outside Rio de Janeiro called Jardim Gramacho. After operating for more than 30 years, the sanitary facility, once one of the largest in the world, had reached its maximum capacity and was on the eve of closing permanently.
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Giving the World a Middle Finger
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 1 2005
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist. He has been vocal and openly critical of the Chinese government’s stance on democracy and human rights. His work has captured global attention and served to bring attention to social injustices, human rights violations and systemic violence. Ai never shies away from saying what he truly feels and he encourages people to state exactly what they want.
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2
East Side Gallery
Practitioner:
Graffiti artists
Date:
Apr 17 1990
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, the cement segments that remain have stood as something more symbolic than just a wall. With installations in every continent, except for Antarctica, the East Side Gallery is the most authentic existing part of the Berlin Wall.
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4
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls
Practitioner:
Willie Mae volunteers
Date:
Jan 1 2001
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls is a non-profit music and mentoring program that empowers girls and women through music education, volunteerism, and activities that foster self-respect, leadership skills, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
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"Within the Terms and Conditions"
Practitioner:
Caroline Sinders
Date:
Jul 15 2021
A popular theme throughout media is the relationship between technology and art. While art is often bolstered and disseminated through technology, discussions arise of how technology both positively and negatively affects content. Caroline Sinders’ exhibition Within the Terms and Conditions explores the way content has been spread online.
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Exploring Silence and Connection: Marina Abramović's 'The Artist Is Present' Unveiled
Practitioner:
Marina Abramović
Date:
Mar 14 2010
Marina Abramović is the synonym for performance art. Throughout their career, she has constantly pushed her way through endurance art and further pushed the boundaries of the artist's role in the audience. One of the most compelling and exciting works is "The Artist Is Present," which she presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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'I am not your scapegoat': See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hate
Practitioner:
Kezia Gabriella, Andrew Kung, Kathleen Namgung, Cindy Trinh, Christine Fang, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Date:
Dec 27 2021
In mid-November, the nonprofit group Asian American Federation released 10 travel posters designed to subvert a question that can instantly get under the skin of any person of Asian descent in the United States: “Where are you really from?”
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