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It’s how it works, right?

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-half-rich-man-half-poor-man-33066019.html Fred Wilson’s art brings back old memories. Growing hearing sentences like, “You can’t go to church looking like that!” or even the drier, “Dress properly! Our family did not raise a beggar”, this work rings true. Wilson’s work undeniably shows the crippling attachment that our society has towards projected image. Wealth, wisdom, good character …

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Art Complements Business

Although different in many ways, art and business are almost synonymous. Whether you are the owner of a restaurant, social media content creator, or an artist like 2 Chainz or Beyonce, business is art and art is business because it is selling the artist’s craft. Granted there are many differentiating terms such as “customers” to …

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Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña

In March 1992, writer/artist Coco Fusco and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña locked themselves in a cage and performed as “Amerindians,” wearing masks and converse sneakers, typing on laptops and making Vodou dolls. As the exhibit travelled from Irvine, CA to the Smithsonian in DC and London and Madrid, the artists blurred boundaries between subject and …

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Dying of a broken heart syndrome

Over the summer I began to study a disease originally founded in Japan known as Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy which is the scientific name for the closest disease to date that links death with patients who suffered from having a broken heart. A lot of my research entailed this diagnosis happened predominately in older women in the …

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Art about Death

“It’s Halloween season, and campy macabre aesthetic surrounds us, making the general public a little more open to the darker parts of our existence. Reflecting back on the origin of this holiday, All Hallow’s Eve and Samhain, the pagan celebration, it’s clear that death and the unseen world is the foundation. Our ancestors believed that …

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Paris is Burning

This documentary is about the 1980’s New York City drag subculture in society. In viewing this documentary you see the transformation in how the drag culture took the very words that were being used to describe the iconic figures in celebrity culture and deconstructed them to fit the icons of the subculture they produced. Race, gender, …

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Nadin Ospina

Nadín Ospina is an award-winning Colombian artist with significant international exposure. His awards include First Prize, 34th Salon of Colombian Artists (1992) and First Prize, 18th Salon of Fire, Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (2004). From 1979 to 1982, he held the position of Professor of Fine Arts, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. In 1992 …

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Antonio Caro

Antonio Caro is one of the most influential Colombian artists in Latin America. Since the seventies, Antonio Caro is a figure of revolution. Today, with over forty years of experience, not only remains in force, but still shakes the foundations of the national art scene. Caro is a legend: a kind of superhero. He is …

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Carlos Castro

Colombian artist Carlos Castro is a chronicler of his time. In his pieces, he recontextualizes formally and symbolically found objects and images of his environment, some of them highly charged socially and politically, to create new narratives that bring to light the ones that have been socially suppressed over time or ignored in history. Castro …

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Fernando Botero

Botero is a figurative artist and sculptor from Medellín, Colombia. His signature style, also known as “Boterismo”, depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He is considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America. His figurative representation have a unique …

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Untitled (Free) at 303 Gallery in New York

Rirkit Tirivanija’s 1992 artwork in which he served curry to visitors at New York’s 303 Gallery. This work was performed again in 2012 at MOMA and is now part of it’s permanent collection.

Dorchester Projects

Artist Theaster Gates renovated previously abandoned buildings on Chicago’s South Side to be repurposed as Library, Slide Archive and Soul Food Kitchen in 2009. Theaster Gates has since become one of the most important artists associated with socially engaged art.

“I Wish to Say”

Interactive public art project where Sheryl Oring dresses in vintage secretary clothing and sets up a mobile office with a typewriter and invites people to share their thoughts in the form of letters. Initially performed in 2008, where she invited people to send messages for President George Bush’s 60th Birthday. The project has seen other iterations …

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Immigrant Movement International

A group that joins community space and creative knowledge to “transform social affect into political effectives,” favoring cultural reciprocity over traditional economic systems.