http://www.nhregister.com/arts-and-entertainment/20160720/artspace-in-new-haven-to-open-exhibit-dedicated-to-orlando-shooting-victims Recently the media has been contending over whether or not bringing attention to horrific acts of violence is actually a way to encourage similar violence, or terrorist acts. Supporters of this notion assert that when the media covers tragedies, such as the Orlando Pulse shooting, they celebrate the shooter’s
Month: July 2016
In order to protect her true identity, California officials gave her the pseudonym Genie. Genie, as the older generation may recall, has gained national publicity in the early 1970s for being the incredulous feral child and victim of extreme abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Held against her own will, the
http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/15/asap-rocky-black-lives-matter-police-violence-twitter This article presents artist A$AP Rocky’s response to recirculation of his 2015 interview with Time Out. The public seems to be upset with his lack of action involving police brutality of African Americans. Not every black person needs to speak out on behalf of the black community in these
Artist Chad Michael Morrisette created this installation on top of his residence in West Los Angeles as an immediate in response to the devastating Orlando shooting and that took to many innocent lives. The fifty mannequins echoes the fifty people who died in the shooting that occurred in Orlando June
Performance art often skirts the line between criminal and art and Milo Moiré was a little too much on the criminal side and was arrested by the London police for public indecency. Moiré’s newest work, Mirror Box, allowed the public to touch her breast and vagina in this mirror box
Lessig’s book Free Culture mentions how early in the history of photography, “courts were asked whether the photographer, amateur or professional, required permission before he could capture and print whatever image he wanted.” The argument in favor of this was that the person taking the photograph was “taking” something of
In the early hours of May 31, 2014, in the quiet, suburban town of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two teenage girls successfully lured a classmate into the woods. What took place next was unfathomable yet disturbing, even to the average video gamers. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier proceeded to stab their innocent
There are many prank series in Youtube these days. In broad terms, prank video can be called as art activity since through those pranks, we can see how people’s emotion change and their reaction in extreme situation. However, in this video, the prank went way too far. Basically, there are
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/31709/1/artist-arrested-for-getting-strangers-to-stroke-her-genitals A Swiss woman artist named Milo Moire walked around many European cities, with only two mirror boxes covering her breasts and vagina. She then asked strangers to touch either her breast or vagina for 30 seconds to make a statement that women and men are equal in sexuality instead