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Founder members of Mavo were Murayama Tomoyoshi, Oura Shuzo, Yanase Masamu, Ogata Kamenosuke, and Kadowaki Shinro.The group expanded quickly between young artists. During a 1923 demonstration, Takamizawa Michinao, one of the members of Mavo, threw rocks in protest, through a glass ceiling of a building housing an exhibition of artworks curated by Nika-kai (The Second Society).
New York street art — The murder of George Floyd, the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Elijah McClain, and others due to police violence triggered the creation of street art in New York City. The art represents a memorial to those who died as well as a means to support the Black Lives Matter movement. [ 42 ]
Social justice art, and arts for social justice, encompasses a wide range of visual and performing art that aim to raise critical consciousness, build community, and motivate individuals to promote social change. [1] Art has been used as a means to record history, shape culture, cultivate imagination, and harness individual and social ...
Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) Deitcher, David. "Polarity Rules: Looking at Whitney Annuals and Biennials, 1968-2000," in Alternative Art, New York, 1965-1985: A Cultural Politics Book for the Social Text Collective, ed. Julie Ault (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press ...
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On 14 October 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland of Just Stop Oil threw two tins of soup at an 1888 Sunflowers painting by Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery in London, glued themselves to the wall and asked the crowd whether they were more concerned by the protest or by the effects of climate change on the planet. They had been ...
The artists who organized the protest condemned Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and criticized Miami-Dade County government for investing $76 million in Israeli bonds.
In July 2014, a black man suspected of a petty crime was pulled to the ground by New York City police and choked on the pavement as a witness videotaped him crying out, “I can’t breathe.”