Projects tagged "New York City"

Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Practitioner:
Monument Removal Brigade
Date:
Oct 26 2017
Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning.
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There’s So Much I Want to Say to You
Practitioner:
Sharon Hayes
Date:
Jun 27 2012
At the press preview for Sharon Hayes’s new full-floor exhibition “There’s So Much I Want to Say to You” at the Whitney Museum there was a podium and a microphone set up in the center of the gallery that would eventually be used by director Adam Weinberg and curator Chrissie Iles to introduce the artist and her restless work.
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Say No to "Yellow Fever"
Practitioner:
Donna Choi
Date:
Nov 25 2013
New York artist Donna Choi wanted to create a “weird, memorable way” to discuss fetishization of Asian women, so she put together a satirical series about how to diagnose Yellow Fever—the specific obsession many Western men have with Asian culture. The over-the-top series is a discussion of race crafted for the attention span of the Internet. I emailed with Choi about her thinking behind the Yellow Fever series.
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Fashion in Action
Practitioner:
Michaela Angela Davis
Date:
Sep 9 2010
On the opening day of the Spring/Summer 2011's season of Mercedes Benz's New York Fashion Week, former fashion editor, speaker, and fashion activist Michaela Angela Davis led a protest of approximately 20 black women, dressed in black suits, carrying signs with the names of every fashion editor in the 40 year history of African American fashion and lifestyle magazine, Essence Magazine.
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Colorful pianos in the summer
Practitioner:
Sing For Hope
Date:
Jun 5 2017
Sing for Hope is bringing its renowned Sing for Hope Pianos back to the streets of New York City this summer. From June 5-25, as a celebration of the work Sing for Hope does in communities year-round, 60 Sing for Hope Pianos will be placed in parks and public spaces in high traffic locations across all five boroughs in New York for anyone and everyone to play.
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The Bell Podcast
Practitioner:
The Bell, Taylor McGraw
Date:
May 1 2017
"We envision a nation that provides students from underprivileged backgrounds the same caliber of public education as students from privileged backgrounds.
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‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt
Practitioner:
Artists, cultural workers and activists
Date:
Mar 24 2024
A two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts Benjamin Sutton 25 March 2024
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Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg's UWS Apartment
Practitioner:
The People for Bernie Sanders, Latinos for revolution, Viva Bernie 2020, Young Progressives of America, POlitics Reborn, Woke folks, Millennials for revolution, Unofficial: DNC, New York City Progressives, The Digital Left
Date:
May 18 2018
Action as a response to viral video of Attorney Aaron Schlossberg's racist rant against Spanish speaking customers and employees at a midtown restaurant. The "Latin Party" included food, music, and dance celebrating Latina/o culture in the US. From FB event page:
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Muro
Practitioner:
Bosco Sodi
Date:
Sep 7 2017
A wall will go up in Washington Square Park on Sept. 7, but come down by the end of the day. Called “Muro,” this wall will be the artist Bosco Sodi’s first public installation in New York, in partnership with Paul Kasmin Gallery. It will be more than 6 feet high and about 26 feet long, made with 1,600 clay timbers fired in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Unland
Practitioner:
Doris Salcedo
Date:
Mar 19 1998
Doris Salcedo talked extensively with victims of the violence in Colombia. For the project titled Unland she spoke specifically with children who had witnessed the murder of their parents. This piece was a poetic response and representation of their testimony. Salcedo combined halves of tables together to make a whole. In the seam where the tables joined Salcedo meticulously sewed the tables together using white silk thread, dark hair and bone.
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Feminist Apparel and Anti-Street Harassment Week
Practitioner:
Feminist Apparel
Date:
Apr 16 2015
Attention catcallers: the streets of New York City do not welcome you.
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Jay Allan Zimmerman
Practitioner:
Jay Allan Zimmerman
Date:
May 26 2015
Zimmerman a composer who uses art, dance, tech, and even robots in his shows. You might call this interdisciplinary. Wagner called it total art, or gesamtkunstwerk.
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The Privilege of Escape
Practitioner:
Risa Puno, Creative Time
Date:
Jul 18 2019
For an art project about the effects of white privilege and the disturbing ways in which its effects are built into our society, Risa Puno’s The Privilege of Escape is a surprisingly fun, even enjoyable experience.
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Guerrilla gardening?
Practitioner:
Artists Agnes Dene, Alan Sonfist, Rufus Chaney, Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Nov 30 1959
Plants growing through urban cracks and concrete remind us of the power of nature. Whether its a tree or a blade of grass pushing its way through cement, an underlying chaos( or natural order) lives just beneath the surface of physical and mental organizational structures created by man.
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Transforming Memory into Action: The Climate Crisis Through Vintage Visions
Practitioner:
David Opdyke
Date:
Oct 8 2022
David Opdyke’s wry, panoramic visions of an America perceptibly in the grips of climate crisis were born of an artistic crisis—of “needing to come up an idea by digging somewhere other than my own brain.” Having drawn on his imagination to conjure up the trenchant, ecologically-inflected critiques of American imperialism and late-stage capitalism that have defined his work for twenty years, he wondered what more he might, artistically speaking, say.
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No Home Gallery
Practitioner:
Victoria Manganiello, Anastasia Voron
Date:
Aug 1 2014
No Home Gallery is a traveling gallery that curates exhibitions and happenings in various living and studio spaces in New York City. In an attempt to make contemporary art accessible and inviting, No Home offers emerging artists and art enthusiasts a forum for collaboration and creation.
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A Presidential Parody
Practitioner:
A Presidential Parody, Maia Lorian, Abe Lincoln Jr.
Date:
Nov 19 2018
NEW YORK, Ny., Nov 19, 2018 - Two artists, Actress/Creator/Native New Yorker Maia Lorian and collaborator veteran NYC Street Artist Abe Lincoln Jr. bring to you “A Presidential Parody.” In a nation that seems to place higher value on the American dollar over the American life, the artists felt it was time to release an ad campaign that reflects Trump’s “all American” values.
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Bit Rosie
Practitioner:
Bit Rosie, Adele Fournet
Date:
Mar 11 2016
Bit Rosie showcases female music producers in high quality performance videos and short documentaries. Our videos and digital archive project with the New York University library document the work of women using music technology to make sounds across genres and locales. Bit Rosie is directed and produced by Adele Fournet. http://www.adelefournet.com/
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Robot Dogs and Other Weird Creatures Bring Nature to the City
Practitioner:
Natalie Jeremijenko
Date:
Jan 3 2013
by Natalie Pompilio Natalie Jeremijenko wants you to feed the animals. She encourages you to text the fish—and makes sure they'll text you back. She turns moths into movie stars and believes the next big thing in urban transportation is human flight.
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Run #4AllCauses
Practitioner:
4 All Causes, Gabriela Moreno, and Patricia Brady
Date:
Nov 4 2012
"Lincoln Square — The runners tossed blankets, gloves, jackets and other gear onto the pile, each leaving a piece of where they came from. A French man donated his running shirt and pants, and noted that they were designer wear. Enybe Merritt, 32, contributed a West Virginia University Cycling sweatshirt.
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12 year old bride in Times Square
Practitioner:
Cody Persin
Date:
Feb 24 2016
In order to raise awareness about the global issue of arranged child marriages, 21-year-old YouTube star Coby Persin decided to push the envelope by asking a 12-year-old 'bride' to pose with a 65-year-old 'groom' in the middle of Times Square. Child marriage is not only legal in 91 countries around the world, but even continues to be legal in the United States - with some having a cut off as low as 12 years of age.
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SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
Practitioner:
Swoon Studio
Date:
Sep 7 2008
TROY, N.Y. — Three loud blasts from a steam whistle screamed out as the rain drizzled on the riverbank here. And the fleet of seven eclectic handmade ships slowly moved away.
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Bicycle Advocacy Love Your Lane
Practitioner:
American Youth Hostels (AYH)
Date:
Apr 7 1973
On April 7, 1973, some 400 cyclists chanting “Bikes don’t pollute” rode through midtown Manhattan in a “Bike-In” that called for separate lanes to encourage bicycling and provide safety on city streets.
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NYPD Twitter Outreach Backfires
Practitioner:
NYPD, Twitter users
Date:
Apr 22 2014
A call for users to post photos with officers and the hashtag #myNYPD is met with images of police brutality after Occupy Wall Street mocks the request.
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Voguing As Resistance
Practitioner:
Black Trans Liberation
Date:
Aug 7 2023
There were still bloodstains outside the Midwood Mobil gas station on Friday night; a fresh sign taped to a lamppost read “A Hate Crime Happened Here.” This is the place where, less than a week prior, 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, a gay Black dancer and choreographer, made a pit stop with friends after a Jersey beach day.
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