LLCET°_1-1-Art and protest
Defaced!
A survey of how money has been altered or destroyed as protest and art, from the suffragettes to Banksy.
Plastic Art
Turning recycling into an art form An art studio with no brushes or paint. Mbongeni Buthelezi uses strips of plastic melted and glued to the canvas for his portraits. When the South African studied art he couldn’t afford to buy expensive materials. So he found an alternative and now produces this unique kind of art. … Continuer la lecture
Banned books and digital resistance
As Calls to Ban Books Intensify, Digital Librarians Offer Perspective Posted on November 24, 2021 by Caralee Adams Image credit: Roger Nomer | The Joplin Globe From Texas to Virginia to Pennsylvania, there is a growing movement to challenge books in schools that some suggest are inappropriate for students. Concern goes beyond explicit content; it … Continuer la lecture
Josephine Baker : from dancefloor to Pantheon
Dancer, singer … spy: France’s Panthéon to honour Josephine Baker The performer will be the first Black woman to enter the mausoleum, in recognition of her wartime work Jon Henleyin Paris Sun 28 Nov 2021 ‘Resistance heroine’: Josephine Baker entertains the troops at a London victory party in 1945. Photograph: Jack Esten/Getty Images … Continuer la lecture
Hong Kong has a new modern art museum
Hong Kong opens modern art museum as security law casts pall Multibillion-dollar M+ struggles to find a balance between artistic expression and political censorship A security guard walks in front of Bloodline – Big Family No 17 by Zhang Xiaogang at M+. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters Reuters Thu 11 Nov 2021 A senior Hong Kong … Continuer la lecture
The Extraordianry Treck of George Takei
Dorothea Lange : migration and the American Dream
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The problem we all live with
The “Contemporary” Racial Conscience and Sensitivity of Norman Rockwell
Connecting Verbal and Visual
A show about the relationship between seeing and reading feels like a return to Romanticism – a belief in the passionate expression of the spirit read the whole article: Poet Slah Artist
On how JR’s confrontational street art went global
Backdrops to a riot: JR on how his confrontational street art went global Migrants, Mayra, Picnic Across the Border … spanning the US-Mexican border at Tecate, 2017. Photograph: JR-art.net His portraits of his Paris neighbourhood summed up its residents’ anger. Now his subversive installations straddle borders, float on boats and envelop favelas. We speak to … Continuer la lecture
