Category Archives: Culture and Human rights
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June Sekiguchi
As we enter June Sekiguchi ‘s living room we are immediately immersed in a feeling of multi dimensional creativity. From the ceiling, the walls, the floor, strange flowing shapes appear everywhere. As the artist reaches for a stack of fiberboard cut with wavy edges we see an art form appear as the artist puts […]
This entry was posted on March 19, 2025 and is filed under Culture and Human rights, Uncategorized. -
William Kentridge “Triumphs and Laments” in Boston
William Kentridge’s “Triumphs and Laments,” in an exhibition in Boston based on his 2016 giant procession and reverse graffiti along the Tiber in Rome.
This entry was posted on May 3, 2018 and is filed under "the Kentridge moment", "War and the Body", "War Experience Project" Handspring Puppets, Contemporary Art, Culture and Human rights, Uncategorized. -
The Spirit of Standing Rock
Art inspired by the Standing Rock resistance is appearing everywhere and in all media
This entry was posted on February 14, 2017 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Culture and Human rights, Deborah Lawrence, Standing Rock, Uncategorized. -
A valuable conversation of past and present: Three Special Exhibitions of Indigenous Art in Seattle
Three exhibitions offer a conversation about native creativity, its history, its extraordinary media, and the contemporary artists in the Northwest who continue to honor and alter it.
This entry was posted on March 20, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Culture and Human rights, indians, Indigenous Art, Lillian Pitt. -
Rodrigo Valenzuela, the 13th man and the end of Utopia
Rodrigo Valenzuela juxtaposes the words and experiences of migrants and other workers in the midst of the collapse of the utopian discourses of modernism and its structures, both philosophical and physical. He jarringly disconnects words and images to reveal the deep fissures in our society.
This entry was posted on February 7, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Culture and Human rights, democracy, economic imperialism vs democracy, Performance Art, Photography, Uncategorized. -
From Cellos to Pens: Cultural Events that Provoke
Experimentation with classical media in music, theater and writing can be as subversive and confrontational as street protests.
This entry was posted on July 16, 2012 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Art of Democracy, Culture and Human rights, economic imperialism vs democracy, Feminism, music, theater. -
Azar Nafisi in Des Moines Iowa
When I went to visit my grandchildren in Des Moines Iowa, I was excited to discover that Azar Nafisi was speaking, sponsored by Drake University. She has a new book called Things I Have Been Silent About. And of course she is best known for Reading Lolita in Tehran, perhaps one of the best titles […]
This entry was posted on November 2, 2010 and is filed under Azar Nafisi, Culture and Human rights, Iran.
