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1 hour ago

176 Venice Biennale Participants Demand Israel Be Barred From Exhibition | Artnet News

This action was not mentioned in the latest letter, which said the deaths of artists, musicians, poets, and journalists in Gaza is 'an attempted annihilation of not just the Palestinian people but Palestinian culture.' It added that 'no artist or cultural worker should be asked to share a platform with this genocidal state.'
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fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
2 days ago

The Climate Crisis

At a young age, I learned quickly how oil wealth and power could burn the land while people struggled. I saw heat rise off the streets, the Nile strained, and the air thickened with injustice. In my teenage years, through Aotearoa, being on the edge of the Pacific, I felt the ocean breathing heavy, swallowing the shores of islands that have done the least to cause this harm.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 days ago

From film to canvas, exploring the differing ways that men and women present lesbians * Oregon ArtsWatch

I really wanted to look at the differences between films made by men ... when they're directed by men, it's very taboo, it's sensationalized, it's explicit and it's often violent .... (with) the films made by women, or best case, lesbian women because it's so different, it is like night and day. I'm trying to show that contrast, and that difference.
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fromAnOther
1 week ago

Brilliant Things to Do This March

Global cultural institutions present exhibitions exploring aging, fashion activism, and artistic reinterpretation across art, design, and contemporary practice.
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fromHyperallergic
3 months ago

Why I Joined the Artists Behind Fall of Freedom

A bureaucratic removal of 'T' and 'Q' from Stonewall's public description prompted a nonbinary artist to restore transgender and queer visibility through sculpture and national creative resistance.
fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
8 months ago

Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

The urgent work of survival often edges out space for strategic visioning, but if nonprofits and activists are to thrive, they must dream different ways of living.
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fromABC7 San Francisco
9 months ago

Meet the Velvet Bandit: Sonoma Co.'s mystery mom turned street art superhero

"They're really silly and punny. I didn't really think much of it," she said.
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