A statue in Sydney, Australia was covered with a huge pink condom in order to raise awareness for HIV prevention. The group ACON, the AIDS Council of New South Wales, is promoting the use of condoms particularly for gay men who rarely use condoms during casual sex (according to a
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/castro-san-franciscos-public-nudity-ban.html Self expression comes in many different forms. Our laws protect self expression by giving us freedom of speech and freedom of religion. However, there are many instances where we aren’t quite sure how we feel about how people choose to express themselves. In San Francisco, the “body freedom” movement
The artist IEPE organizes actions s in public spaces address specific aspects of the urban condition, such as traffic. In this project bicyclists spill 500 liters of eco-friendly paint which is spread throughout a Berlin intersection by 2,000 unknowing participants driving cars. This performance piece draws attention to the daunting
Earlier this year, angry union protestors engaged in a rather peaceful form of protest that simultaneously walked the fine line between legal and illegal. “Union’s Giant Video Near White House Urges Halt to Deportations,” an article by Michael D. Shear that was published in the New York Times, describes labor
An article in Huffington Post UK, “Criminal Art: Paintings by Famous Killers and Criminals,” discusses the idea of pieces of artwork created by those who have committed terrible crimes being sold for profit. The piece above, which depicts some sort of demonic creature, was created by Henry Lee Lucas, a
New York has always had a large artist community and a big part of this are the youths making extra money by performing in the Subway. Mayor Bill de Blasio recently decided that he wants the New York Police Commissioner William Bratton to make his next project to get rid
Graffiti has always been apart of society, artists tag walls and buildings, but recently an artist named Casey Nocket has tagged National Parks across the United States. She documented her work on instragram but has taken them down after a lot of disapproval by viewers. She depends herself by saying
The race to find Banksy’s newest pieces of graffiti is on! The last panting was found on a Bristol street within hours of when it was done. Not only was it found, but the group removed it with a crowbar and put it in their own private art exhibit. They
After visiting restaurants such as The Boiling Crab (pictured above), and Woodstock’s Pizza, I am always amazed by the amount of graffiti on the walls, benches, and tables. Personally, I feel that the little messages and quotes written by people give the restaurants a sense of uniqueness and personality, as
Yarn bombing is a type of street art that uses knitted fibers to create colorful displays. A man only known as ‘Bryan’ and approximately 30 others knitted flower stems and pedals onto the stop signs in his Clairemont neighborhood. The project resulted in approximately 100 stop signs being turned into