Tag: protest
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Advocates for the Incarcerated Protest Removal of Artworks from UK Court Facilities
Cultural organizations and reformers in the UK are up in arms against government contractor Serco for removing artworks from court facilities in England and Wales. A February 10 report from Lay Observers, an independent monitor, found that Prisoner Escort and Custody Service, a government agency, provided artworks to all courts. Lay Observers found that only read more
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Artist Who Represented Ireland at 2024 Venice Biennale to Face Trial for Protest Against US Military
Eimear Walshe, who represented Ireland at the 2024 Venice Biennale, will face trial starting tomorrow for a case centering around the artist’s involvement in a protest against the US military staged at an airport in their home country. Walshe will appear in court alongside Áine Treanor and Aindriú de Buitléir, who, alongside Walshe, are known read more
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How Richard Wright Shaped John Wilson’s Protest Art
With 1940’s explosive Native Son, the novelist Richard Wright lit a fire in American literature, the embers of which still glow today. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he inspired many, including a young John Wilson, born in 1922 to Guyanese immigrants in the working-class neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Wright, who read more
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Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
Artists and other creative people (not to mention, ahem, journalists) have been deeply concerned about the way that their work has been hoovered up by tech companies to fuel artificial intelligence–powered image and text generators. In 2023, several digital artists filed a class action lawsuit targeted at Stability AI, Midjourney, and the image-sharing platform DeviantArt, read more
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Posters with purpose: the analog protest calling out the censorship of women’s health
In response to widespread suppression of women’s health vocabulary, health creative studio Ouch! launches the GOOD WORDS campaign: a series of posters highlighting how essential terms such as “vulva,” “uterus,” and “period” are censored by digital platforms, forcing women to navigate a growing “euphemism economy” of coded language just to find information online. The campaign read more
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