For decades, popular companies and industries have cut corners and exploited workers for the sake of cheaper production and sales points to promote greater profit. This is extremely evident with stores found at malls, such as Forever 21, Urban Outfitters, and H&M, but are increasingly being found in online shops
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Street art is a common form of self-expression and is ever prevalent in our world. This art form can take forms ranging from singing, dancing, performing, or physical art. The most notable or common in different areas is physical art, this art can be present on buildings, the sidewalk, virtually
Virgil Abloh, artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton and CEO of luxury fashion label Off-White, has faced multiple plagiarism and appropriation allegations throughout his decade long career. In January 2019, fashion watchdog Diet Prada accused Abloh of directly stealing the designs of a young designer, Punk Zec. Punk Zec’s
The use of graffiti can be seen to some people as a work of art and to others as a work of something illegal. Graffiti can be defined as the drawing or writing of something unlawfully on a wall or other public surfaces through use of scribbling, scratching, or the
TikTok is an app that’s been creating much hubbub in the news and even more issues in the last year than almost any other social media app in the past. This is an app that allows users to make videos up to one minute long and use either original sounds
Art Collective MSCHF based in New York has unveiled a new project called “Medical Bill Art” in which three medical bills from Americans in debt were hand-painted on large canvases and sold for the same price of the bills. The earnings were given to the owners of the medical bills
Eminem could easily be considered one of the most controversial musical artists since the beginning of music. His songs are full of profanities, sociopathic rants, murder, rape, and a lot of hate laden fantasies. When his first music was released, nothing like it had ever been made before and on
The richest place in the world is cyberspace and the most valuable commodity there is information. On July 23, multibillion-dollar tech giant Garmin, who produces smartwatches and aviation products with world renown GPS capabilities, suffered major outages. The outages stemmed from a ransomware that hacked their servers, instituted by the
In our current century of the self, our propensity to express ourselves with manufactured identities is nothing short of ironic. In fact, In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman summarizes this phenomenon, “assum[ing] that when an individual appears before others he will have many motives for trying to
Performance artist Santiago Sierra is known for controversial art pieces that address systems of power that operate in our everyday lives, whether we acknowledge it or not. These operations that Sierra uncovers are usually those that marginalize and/or exploit certain populations within our society. To showcase these systemic injustices, Sierra