Doing a quick google search of female artists pulls up a variety of sources, primarily young, white actresses and singers. Minorities are heavily ignored in the art world, but many people are coming into the foreground and ther woman I stumbled upon is Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban-American artists
Month: November 2015
Last year Urban Outfitters had the brilliant idea to take a horrible incident at Kent State University and profit off of it. They attempted to sell a Kent State sweater with blood splatter in reference to the shooting that occurred in 1970. They even had the audacity to name the
One cannot have gone a lifetime without hearing the cliché ignorance is bliss. Julian Assange—the face of Wikileaks—is both blamed and respected for the mass out poor of globally protected secrets, thus shattering the bliss of millions. In doing so, he manipulates emotions and exercises the control over others he
Rick Staton was once an art collector. Although, the art he obtained was made by well-known serial killers. The first artwork he began to sell were the John Wayne Gacy. This is the man who sexually assaulted and murdered 33 boys, and Staton showed great interest in selling his art.
In San Diego during the 90’s graffiti was a huge issue facing the city. The public sphere was constantly being vandalized with graffiti, and the city had really no way of controlling it. Somewhere along the line, the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation discovered that the majority of the tagging
The United Nations conference on climate change has begun in Paris. The conference starts today, November 30 to December 11 and involves over 150 heads of State and Government. This is the 21st conference and the subject of the conference is about plans on stopping Greenhouse Gas emission and creating
Seattle’s artsy-indie music scene was once dominated by groups that could all pretty easily be clumped into the sad-guy-in-a-flannel sort of category. Bands like Death Cab for Cutie and Fleet Foxes got there start in the often cloudy, drizzling hipster city and Band of Horses picked Seattle as their home
In music, sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians, who altered and manipulated vinyl records on a phonograph. Today, sampling has evolved into the act of taking a portion, also known as a sample, of a sound recording and reusing it in a different song or musical piece. Sometimes an
In the aftermath of the Meek Mill and Drake feud, I found the need to explore the part of rap that deals with the most up-front, personal, and confrontational lyrics. This subgenre is known as the diss track. Celebrities often get into disagreements or arguments (aka beef). Rappers have a
What would you do if you were going around the city to find a nude woman straddling the roof of a building? Would you consider it art or a crime? Earlier this month (November 2015), performance artist Poppy Jackson confused many by her four hour long performance, “Site,” that was