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Political Posters, Joseph A. Labadie Collection
Practitioner:
University of Michgan
Date:
Jun 1 2015
The Joseph A. Labadie Collection contains posters which have been acquired over the past 100 years. This database consists of images of those posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest. Some are from the first half of the 20th century, but the majority are from the 1960s and later. Many are undated.
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Paddling Home
Practitioner:
Kasey Wong
Date:
May 4 2009
From Public Delivery: Kacey Wong has a knack for creating art that investigates the space between people and their surrounding environment. Paddling Home, which was performed on the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor, was a star feature in the Hong Kong contemporary art scene.
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Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey's Violence
Practitioner:
Zehra Doğan
Date:
Feb 28 2019
The Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan was freed yesterday after nearly three years in prison, Hyperallergic reports. Doğan first caught the attention of the Turkish authorities back in 2017 with a watercolor that depicted a Kurdish district after Turkish security forces set it on fire and largely destroyed it.
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Conscious Lee
Practitioner:
Bog Fingers, student group in MTU's Creativity and Change course
Date:
Apr 2 2021
Conscious Lee is a public awareness project to help people value and protect their rivers. Rivers are rich sources of life and are vital for clean water. They are beautiful spaces to connect with nature. We all need to appreciate our rivers. We can all help river wildlife and protect this natural amenity for future generations.
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Clothesline Project
Practitioner:
Tennessee Correctional Services, Lane College Wellness Program
Date:
Apr 23 2014
“Stop hitting me,” “Please help,” and “Abuse is wrong” were just a few phrases painted and scribbled onto T-shirts by victims of sexual and domestic abuse to express how it felt to go through that pain. The shirts are part of the Clothesline Project and were on display at Lane College on Wednesday.
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Brazil’s Most Famous Art Movement Built on Racial Inequality
Practitioner:
various
Date:
Mar 13 2018
The Shifting View on Anthropofagia Tarsila is closely associated with the establishment of the Brazilian art movement known as cultural “cannibalism,” or “Anthropofagia”: the then-radical idea that a truly Brazilian art would emerge by ingesting all the different cultures that intermingled within the country, rather than simply copying European styles.
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Ge Yu Lu (road)
Practitioner:
Ge Yulu
Date:
Jan 1 2013
In 2017 Ge Yulu became a national sensation in China. That year, he submitted his final project as a student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, revealing the unnamed road in Beijing that he had claimed in 2014 as his own. Because the Lu character in his name means road, he erected a sign for Geyu Road that blended seamlessly into the setting.
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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964
Practitioner:
Yoko Ono
Date:
Jan 1 1964
In Cut Piece—one of Yoko Ono’s early performance works—the artist sat alone on a stage, dressed in her best suit, with a pair of scissors in front of her. The audience had been instructed that they could take turns approaching her and use the scissors to cut off a small piece of her clothing, which was theirs to keep. Some people approached hesitantly, cutting a small square of fabric from her sleeve or the hem of her skirt.
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Compton's Cafeteria Riot
Practitioner:
Costumers at Compton's
Date:
Aug 2 1966
Compton's Cafeteria, 24 hour diner in S.F.'s Tenderloin was a hang out spot for trans women, drag queens, and sex workers. It was a place for the community to meet up for an expensive meal, a place to chit chat, and let each other know they made it through the night alive. They were often harassed by police and arrested for female impersonation. Finally one night in August the Compton's costumers weren't going to take it anymore.
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Practitioner:
Barbie Liberation Organization
Date:
Dec 1 2003
New York Times, DAVID FIRESTONE, Published: December 31, 1993 Your son tears the wrapping paper off his fierce new "Talking Duke" G. I. Joe doll and eagerly presses the talk button. Out comes a painfully chirpy voice that sounds astonishingly like Barbie's saying, "Let's go shopping!" Does your son: A) Furiously vaporize the doll with his own phaser rifle? B) Go shopping with Joe?
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40 Days for Life
Practitioner:
40 Days for Life
Date:
Sep 26 2012
There have now been ten coordinated 40 Days for Life campaigns since 2007, mobilizing people of faith and conscience in 440 cities across the United States and Canada, plus cities in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belize, Denmark, England, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland, Puerto Rico and Spain.During these unified efforts, participants witnessed countless blessings from God:
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Ricardo Levins Morales – Art for Environmental Justice
Practitioner:
Morales
Date:
Apr 27 2025
Based in Minnesota, Morales creates prints and posters that address environmental and social justice issues. His art is used in grassroots movements, combining vivid imagery with messages of resistance and hope.
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Trust visions that don't feature buckets of blood
Practitioner:
Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink
Date:
Jan 2 1984
In the 1980s, Holzer and Lady Pink used New York as a backdrop for their artworks: Holzer wheatpasted posters and slogans on walls throughout Manhattan, and Lady Pink spray-painted graffiti on buildings and subway cars. The two also collaborated on a series of paintings on canvas, such as this work, for which Holzer composed phrases and Lady Pink did the painting.
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Border Crosser
Practitioner:
Chico MacMurtie/Amorphic Robot Works (ARW)
Date:
Feb 3 2016
ZERO1 is thrilled to commission artist Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works(ARW) Border Crosser during the week leading up to SB50. Rising 40 feet from the ground and arching across an imaginary border before forming a bridge and touching down on the “other side,” Border Crosser is the first of a series of large-scale inflatable robotic sculptures that poetically explore the notion of borders by artist Chico MacMurtrie/ARW.
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Snwmn 4 Carbn Pricng
Practitioner:
PriceCarbonPLZ
Date:
Feb 15 2021
500+ snowmen appeared outside the office of Senator Chuck Schumer in Melville Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. The snowmen appear to be placed there by climate activist @pricecarbonplz. (Source: Newsday, https://www.newsday.com/long-island/photos-of-the-day-1.50139710)
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Bondage in Shanghai
Practitioner:
Mosaic Cat
Date:
Apr 18 2022
This is a photographic work of Shanghai during the period of the city's lockdown, in which the artist uses rope as a medium to explore the themes of government coercion and individual survival. In the image, the artist ties a small amount of vegetables distributed by the government for the following week with a rope and ties an antigen test to the rope as well.
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Lies for Less: Vermin Supreme for President
Practitioner:
Vermin Supreme
Date:
Jan 26 1988
Vermin Supreme is an American performance artist, anarchist and activist who is known for running as an alternative candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States since 1988. Supreme is known for wearing a boot shaped hat and carrying a large toothbrush.  Vermin Supreme's four-plank platform is simple, yet elegant: 1) Mandatory tooth-brushing laws. 2) Zombie preparedness.
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Edward Snowden Hologram
Practitioner:
The Illuminator
Date:
Apr 7 2015
NEW YORK — Hours after police removed an illicit bust of Edward Snowden from its perch in a Brooklyn park on Monday, artists replaced it with a hologram. The group of artists — who collectively call themselves "The Illuminator" and are not related to the trio behind the original sculpture — used laptops and projection equipment to cast an image of Snowden in a haze of smoke at the spot where the sculpture once stood.
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Gem Spa Rally Turns Beloved East Village Institution Into Mock "Schitibank"
Practitioner:
Vanishing New York, #SaveNYC
Date:
Sep 12 2019
A source of delicious egg creams and daily newspapers since at least the 1930s, an unassuming shop at the corner of St. Marks Place and 2nd Avenue was renamed Gem Spa in 1957 and swiftly transformed into a meeting ground for generations of downtown artists, musicians, poets, and activists.
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Pineapple
Practitioner:
Lloyd Jack & Ruairi Gray
Date:
May 11 2017
How did a pineapple become a postmodern masterpiece? The aesthetic merits of tropical fruit inadvertently entered Britain’s national cultural conversation after two students jokingly placed a store-bought pineapple on an empty table at an art exhibition this month at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, a port city in northeastern Scotland.
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