Projects tagged "Globally"

The Resurgence of Women-Only Art Shows
Practitioner:
multiple artists
Date:
Mar 29 2016
At the peak of her career in 1976, Georgia O’Keeffe refused to lend her work to a pivotal exhibition in Los Angeles, “Women Artists: 1550 to 1950.” It was one of a wave of all-female shows — some 150 — that decade to spotlight artists largely ignored by major museums and galleries. But O’Keeffe, the most famous female artist of her day, saw herself in a different category — “one of the best painters,” period.
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Turning Art Into Activism
Practitioner:
Leslie Thomas, various photographers
Date:
Feb 20 2012
By David Gonzalez Leslie Thomas wants to shock you. She wants to anger you. And above all, she wants you to do something. She’s not talking about run-of-the-mill, “Hey buddy, watch your step” angry or TMZ sleaze shock. She’s talking about the great humanitarian and social crises of our time, like in Darfur, Afghanistan or Myanmar. And yes, she’s talking to you.
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Documentary Examines US Soldier Who Stole Priceless Art
Practitioner:
First Lieutenant Joe Meador
Date:
Apr 6 2016
he recent movie “The Monuments Men” told the story of U.S. soldiers who were charged with recovering and protecting works of art stolen by the Nazis in World War II. A new documentary, “The Liberators,” is the story of a U.S. soldier who stole priceless art from a site in Germany and kept it with him in Texas until he died 35 years later.
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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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The Panama Papers
Practitioner:
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Date:
Apr 3 2016
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
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Occupy Love
Practitioner:
Velcrow Ripper
Date:
May 3 2013
Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred, Fierce Light) on a journey deep inside the revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet, as he asks the question, “How could the crisis we are facing become a love story?”
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Practitioner:
Claudia Rankine
Date:
Nov 21 2014
In Citizen, Claudia Rankine recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seemingly slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV—everywhere, all the time.
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Three Billboards—Beyond Ebbing, Missouri
Practitioner:
Sabo, avaaz, Justice4Grenfell, Occupy Justice Malta
Date:
Mar 1 2018
The Oscar-nominated crime drama has inspired activists around the world to put up massive signs to call attention to social issues.
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