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Why did Ai Weiwei dip 2,000 year old Chinese vases in paint?

Performances, Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Han Dynasty Vases in Auto Paint The Han Dynasty Vases with Auto-Paint is a work shown as part of Ai Weiwei’s solo exhibition “Evidence”. It is a series of neolithic vases, painted smooth and shining with brightly colored automotive paint. The aged vessels are given a new context, evoking the mass marketing and luxurious consumerist …

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How Ana Teresa Fernández erased the US-Mexico border

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Ana Teresa Fernández, an artist born in Tampico, Mexico, who studied in San Francisco, California and Lausanne, Switzerland, is known for her ability to make powerful statements. Her statement is especially strong when it comes to the politics of space and place. How Fernández erased the border Her piece, Erasing the Border, is one …

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Lida Abdul’s What we have overlooked – This man vanishes in a lake

Performances, Video Art / 5 minutes of reading

Who is Lida Abdul? Lida Abdul’s two-channel work entitled What we have overlooked (2011) was first presented at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel. She is an Afghan video and performance artist born in 1973 in Kabul. Forced to flee Afghanistan following the Russian invasion and the war that followed, Abdul lived as a refugee in Germany and …

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Ai Weiwei: The Sichuan earthquake & 9000 children’s backpacks

Installations / 12 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei is unmistakably one of the most influential and equally controversial Chinese artists in recent history. He became famous worldwide in 2009 thanks to his highly celebrated art project, Remembering, an art piece he created to honor over 80,000 Chinese, most of whom were school children who perished in the May 2008 Sichuan …

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Hyvinkää Art Museum shows Finland’s first homeless fair – Jani Leinonen & Riiko Sakkinen

Installations / 4 minutes of reading

The Homelessness Fair The Homelessness Fair, curated by Finish artists Jani Leinonen and Riiko Sakkinen, introduced a whole new exhibition concept to the Finnish art scene. Exhibited at the Hyvinkää Art Museum, Leinonen and Sakkinen have invited different civic organizations that deal with homelessness, social institutions and other active parties in the field to take …

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Jeremy Deller’s Battle of Orgreave – This is what happened

Performances, Video Art / 4 minutes of reading

There are several ways to understand history, but art is one of the most persuasive of all ways. Jeremy Deller is a well-known British and has been scaling his career through some projects such as Battle of Orgreave. His project reveals events from the famous clash. It also exposes the details built-up within the police force before the fight happened. In …

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Barbara Kruger wrapped entire buses in her iconic prints

Installations / 6 minutes of reading

Why did Kruger wrap these buses? From the late 1990s to recent years, Pictures Generation conceptual artist/activist Barbara Kruger has wrapped several buses in her prints – in New York, Los Angeles and Cologne. Her work is usually known for its bold, eye-catching design and philosophical themes. About Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is a New …

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Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace – 15 giant billboards at Times Square, New York

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Imagine Peace Until December 30, 2012, 15 giant electronic billboards at Times Square, New York, were transformed into Imagine Peace, a public art project by Yoko Ono. Her message of anti-violence was translated into 24 different languages, set over the tranquil imagery of a blue-sky background. The piece has been transformed into a site-specific multi-channel …

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Heartbreaking: The abandoned animals of Fukushima

Documentary photography, Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Fukushima’s disaster  A day after a tsunami damaged a nuclear reactor at Fukushima in Japan on 11 March 2011, inhabitants living within 20km of the power plant were forcibly evacuated. They had to leave their personal belongings as well as their household pets and farm animals behind. Three days later, there was a hydrogen explosion …

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Kacey Wong & his provocative pink tank at Hong Kong’s 1 July marches

Performances, Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Hongkongers flood the streets & protest for democracy The Hong Kong 1 July protests are a surprising sight on the often chaotic stress. This day marks the transfer of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China (PRC) and is a public holiday it was originally thought to be a day of celebration. However, now …

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Ai Weiwei explains his famous Sunflower Seeds

Installations / 11 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei’s Sunflowers Ai Weiwei emerged as a revolutionary artist on the scene of Chinese art and culture. He served as a protagonist in various dynamic avant-garde movements. His controversial exhibitions have taken the world of art by storm. He has been represented on top in the list of 100 most powerful people who …

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Saber’s skytagging – 5 jets paint graffiti in the sky

Graffiti, Paintings / 2 minutes of reading

Why did Saber hire 5 jet planes? In September 2011, LA artist Saber hired five jet planes to ‘skywrite’ with smoke over City Hall and downtown Loshavees. He used this unusual technique to write his name and those of fellows artists and crews like Revok, Tempt, MSK, LTS, Risky, Ayer and Dream, and convey his …

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