As our country’s justice system continues to silence incarcerated criminals and keep them hidden away from society, Robin Parris and Tom Williams give inmates on death-row the chance to speak up to the outside world through art that represent what they would want their memorials to be. Paris and Williams
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As the Holiday season nears closer and closer as does the excitement for festivities, traditions, and cheer. While most holiday ad campaigns are uplifting, positive, and centered around family morals, I personally was appalled by Bloomingdales’ newest campaign that states, “Spike your best friend’s eggnog when they’re not looking.” Not
On October 25th, 2015, a standard van pulls up to the front entrance of the Manhattan Detention Complex, a municipal jail in New York with a history of unconstitutional treatment of its some 900 inmates. Known colloquially as “The Tombs”, its Egyptian Revival architecture serves as an ominous figure among
Fadi Yazigi, a Syrian artist, has not let the issues happening in Syria stop him from creating art. Since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, the art scene has disappeared. Also, with all of the issues and violence happening in Syria, Damascus is not a safe place. Yazigi explains
“Refugees in, Nazis out / Governments here should feel the shame / Fucking liars, you’re to blame,” The infamous group Pussy Riot strike again with the release of their new music video “Refugees In”. The video, directed by Ralf Schmerberg, is dedicated to the over three quarters of a million
On November 17th, 2015, a Saudi Arabian court sentenced Ashraf Fayadh to death on accounts of apostasy (abandoning the Muslim faith). Before his sentence, Fayadh had spent the last two years being detained and released from prison on several accounts. First he was arrested in August 2013, with the accusation
Youtube is a growing platform that results in various types of videos being shared. The range is from musical covers to people video blogging about their lives. A key motivation for most of these videos are from the amount of views and likes they get. To become a video with
Richard Prince certainly knows how to gain attention with his art. From June 12th to August 15th 2015, Prince had an exhibit in the Gagison Gallery titled New Portraits. What is included in this exhibit? Portraits obliviously, however, none of the portraits featured were taken by him. In fact, the
After a very emotional music video focusing on rape on college campus, Lady Gaga’s music video for Til it Happens to You notes the statistic that 1 in 5 college women are sexually assaulted yearly. This music video is well thought out. From being a black and white music video,
How long should you wait after someone dies to mention their name? How long until it becomes acceptable to use their story, to exploit their experiences, whether you knew them or not? Is it acceptable to make someone’s death into your own art? Is it acceptable, is it art, to