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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
Why is everything white?
Architecture on TikTok
A strangely alluring cocktail of dad dancing and traffic chat From rants about famous buildings to unabashed property porn, TikTok is full of riffs on architecture and design. Our man enters a world of eccentric carpeting, lurid mansions and in-depth pavement analysis by Oliver Wainwright Tue 9 Nov 2021 Urban mysteries revealed … @louisatalksbuildings, @talkingcities … Continuer la lecture
Is TikTok a platform for art?
Fab abs, trauma videos and a big pile of sweets: the art and artists of TikTok From the user proudly exhibiting his dad’s nudes to the woman making sculpting dangerous, art on TikTok is direct, intimate and confessional, with little time for the abstract or avant garde Keep it succinct … Nakama Umeboi with a … Continuer la lecture
NFTs are shaking up the art world
‘I went from having to borrow money to making $4m in a day’: how NFTs are shaking up the art world Digital art is a billion-dollar business, with everyone from Paris Hilton to Damien Hirst trading in ‘non-fungible tokens’. But are NFTs just a get-rich-quick scheme masquerading as culture? A motley crew of celebrities have … Continuer la lecture
The Extraordianry Treck of George Takei
Black Native Americans fight for recognition
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/us/enslaved-people-native-americans-oklahoma.html
Dorothea Lange : migration and the American Dream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange
The problem we all live with
The “Contemporary” Racial Conscience and Sensitivity of Norman Rockwell