Projects tagged "Arts & Culture"

This Private Network For Creatives Is Also A Safe Space For Women
Practitioner:
Mixer; the app’s co-founder, Anis Bennaceur, and marketing director, Cory Kennedy
Date:
Jan 1 2016
How would you describe Mixer? Anis Bennaceur: It’s a professional network for creatives—people working in arts, fashion, film and media, and music. You can showcase your work, past projects to everyone else on the platform, and you can search, discover, connect, and collaborate with a lot of other incredible and talented people working in those industries. Also, every member is vetted by our team, so we ensure the quality of the userbase.
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STITCHING TOGETHER: GARMENT WORKERS IN SOLIDARITY
Practitioner:
Taslima Akhter, Magnum Foundation
Date:
Sep 12 2018
On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 lives were taken in the Rana Plaza Collapse. While history remembers this tragic event as the deadliest garment factory accident, activist and photographer Taslima Akhter reveals a story of dreams crushed by structural murder. Dedicating her career to the lives and struggles of garment workers in Bangladesh, she has continued to foster a community rallying together for safer working conditions.
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Chinatown gets animated in campaign against 76ers arena plan with bevy of protest art on display
Practitioner:
Supporters of the No Arena in Chinatown movement
Date:
Jan 9 2023
Wander around Chinatown and you'll find a simple message plastered along storefronts and the sides of buildings: NO ARENA.
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People of Japan is a snapshot of daily life across Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka
Practitioner:
Mark Manzi
Date:
Mar 1 2021
For his latest project, Mark Manzi found himself outside of his comfort zone. For the Amsterdam-based photographer and designer, People of Japan was an attempt to break from his photography-first portfolio. “In the past, my work was very image-focused, whereas with this book I wanted to scan objects, collect receipts, record noises, add copy, and really create something visually striking,” he says.
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New Documents
Practitioner:
MOMA
Date:
Feb 28 1967
This modestly scaled exhibition, featuring work by three (then) young and relatively unknown photographers named Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, had a lasting influence on modern photography.
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The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World Inequality
Practitioner:
Guerrilla Girls
Date:
Mar 22 2016
It’s women’s history month, and your favorite radical feminist avengers want you to go ape. The Guerrilla Girls have been making noise about gender and racial inequality in the art world since 1985. Fighting discrimination with a sense of humor and their signature faux fur, these masked feminists continue to challenge major museums to spotlight more women and artists of color.
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'Wolf Warrior artist' strives to use new art to spread truth and inspire patriotism
Practitioner:
Wuheqilin
Date:
Jun 18 2020
With delicate composition, striking details and strong emotion, five editorial posters drawn by Wuheqilin have attracted some half million followers to his account on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform. His political views expressed in his art have led to some netizens dubbing him the "Wolf Worrier artist."
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General Idea and the AIDS crises
Practitioner:
General Idea Collective
Date:
Jan 27 2017
The Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus.
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Pop Art as Social Commentary
Practitioner:
Kadarick
Date:
Mar 1 2018
A Côte d'Ivoire-based artist, known as Kadarick, draws on the fantastical powers of The Hulk, Spiderman and Wonder Woman to articulate today's fears. In a new pop-art series of 23 paintings titled Joker, the self-taught painter explores pop culture, politics, mass media and capitalism. The series was recently on display at the LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery in Abidjan.
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"1984" in Bangkok Streets
Practitioner:
Thailand protesters
Date:
May 30 2014
There are no whistles, no loud speakers, and no placards held up high in this quiet act of subversion. Pimsiri Petchnamrob stands silently in a mass of sharply dressed Bangkok commuters, her hands clutched around a copy of George Orwell's 1984. Next to her a small group of young men and women, their faces sombre and their heads bowed low, also read books about fictional and real totalitarian worlds in silence.
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Bruce High Quality Foundation University
Practitioner:
Bruce High Quality Foundation
Date:
Sep 19 2009
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU) is an unaccredited, free collaborative school founded by the eponymous artist collective and presented by Creative Time.
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Kind Coins Pakistan, Kids for Peace School and Peace Centre
Practitioner:
Kids for Peace Global USA and Kids for Peace Pakistan
Date:
Jan 23 2017
Dear Team Please find below the links of the video and detail of Kind Coins Pakistan, Kids for Peace Pakistan School and Peace Centre, hope you will publish it on your website and circulate it at large, your this publication and circulation can change the lives of Pakistani kids and children Kind Coins for Pakistan
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Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the Streets
Practitioner:
Matthew Silver, Fritz Donnelley
Date:
Jan 1 2014
What is looping? Somewhere in between art, activism, and wackiness is this liberating experience. Matthew Silver and Fritz Donnelley, two New York City based performance artists got lonely acting silly in their underwear in public. Knowing that there were enough free spirits to join them, they started "Looping" and invited everyone to join them.
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Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist
Practitioner:
Jim Carrey
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Actor 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 the comic goofiness for more serious turns in films like "The Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
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What Is Obscenity? The Story Of A Good For Nothing Artist And Her Pussy.
Practitioner:
Rokudenashiko
Date:
Jan 1 2014
Rokudenashiko is on a mission to free the vagina. In her native country of Japan, the vaginal slang word “manko” is considered taboo while the penis equivalent, “chinko,” is used freely. Rokudenashiko (the pseudonym of artist Megumi Igarashi) uses her manko art to destigmatize the vagina, using it as the basis for whimsical figurines, iPhone cases, dioramas, and, in her most infamous piece, a kayak.
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Female Immigrants and Related Artwork
Practitioner:
Salma Zulfiqar
Date:
Jan 1 2019
As massacres, civil wars, and violence permeated communities, people have searched for asylum in other countries. Due to its location and relative safety, Spain has become a common destination for immigrants seeking a better life. Female immigrants in particular tend to experience much more arduous journeys in that they frequently are subjugated to sexual abuse.
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After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here
Practitioner:
Artists civilians in Myanmar
Date:
Feb 16 2021
"Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept to the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Dr. Cruel and the Afro- Icelandic Liberation Front
Practitioner:
Teco Benson, Jakob Boeskob
Date:
Jan 1 2010
By 2010, the Nigerian film industry, also referred to as “Nollywood,” had become the second-largest film industry in the world. Today, the accessibility of digital video technology continues to enable prolific amateur filmmakers to produce wildly popular low-budget and direct-to-DVD films, which deal with timely issues of religion, poverty, and corruption.
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Teatro x la identidad
Practitioner:
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
Date:
Apr 10 2001
The Search for Identity in a Country of ‘Disappeared’ By Marcela Valente ‘Theatre for Identity’ is the theme of a novel undertaking in the Argentine capital, where 41 plays are being put on every Monday in 14 theatres.
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Iconography: Ten Portraits
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch, Regina Khidekel
Date:
May 27 2018
"Iconography: Ten Portraits" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 May 27, 11 am – June 30, 7 pm Wednesday – Sunday, 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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The Department of Accumulated Thought (D.A.T.)
Practitioner:
TATLO
Date:
Oct 3 2014
Call it art, exhibited as an installation piece in the October 2014 show "Crossing Brooklyn," a collaboration of more than 100 artworks by 35 artists (or groups) who live or work in Brooklyn, presented at the Brooklyn Museum... or call it "A survey of Art from Brooklyn" as hyperallergic journalist Jillian Steinhauer wrote... it exists on the streets as a social practice, albeit using creative means for community-building.
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Blixel: (Re)stock Image Collection
Practitioner:
Kenya Robinson
Date:
Apr 21 2021
The purpose of this project was the permeate stock images with more depictions of Black people. Stock images are usually easily found and utilized, showcasing people doing everyday activities or scenes. To boost representation of Black people in this particular image field, were left out, so the artist chose to recreate popular stock images with Black models to showcase representation and shed light on the lack of diversity in these photos.
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Periplus
Practitioner:
Comusitària
Date:
Oct 1 2013
PERIPLUS is a transoceanic route through community arts (music, performing arts and interdisciplinary projects) across five continents. It aims to disseminate knowledge and enhance the visibility of education, social and artistic initiatives by critically analysing the synergies which arise from connections in these three fields. ​
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The Art World’s New Gang War
Practitioner:
The Nahmads
Date:
May 1 2014
The 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, is plunging into the shark pool of Contemporary art.
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Break-dancing for social justice in Tunisia
Practitioner:
Art Solution
Date:
Feb 1 2017
In Tunisia, a country gripped by economic uncertainty and still in the midst of rebuilding its identity after the Arab Spring, hip-hop culture is viewed as part of an ongoing dissident movement. Just a few events, such as the recent Mafia Wallitili Festival in the heart of downtown Tunis, offer the local hip-hop community an opportunity to share their values with the broader population.
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