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History or Litter?

November 28, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Is removing history a crime? What if that history is a crime within itself? The gum wall in Seattle, Washington located by the famous Pike’s Place market has been a part of the city’s culture since 1993 and grew to be inches thick, fifteen feet tall, and went the length

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Musical Messages

November 28, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

History has a tendency of repeating itself, especially within the political realm. Rage Against the Machine is a metal rock band, formed in 1991 whose songs mainly focus on political activism and revolution against the government. Almost sixteen years ago, they released the song, “Sleep Now in the Fire” off

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Violent Video Games

November 28, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Violent video games have been extremely popular in our society since the first wave of them were released throughout the 90’s. In fact, in 2008 the Pew Research Center estimated that 97% of teens played some sort of video game, and two-thirds of them included violence. Along with these findings,

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Yi-Fen Chou: Artist as Scam

November 28, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Literature is filled with authors who used pseudonyms in an effort to get their work published. Often, members of minority factions have changed their names in order to seem more like the supposed mainstream ethnicity. So one can easily imagine a situation where an author, fearing that their name will

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Forgery as Art

November 28, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

It sounds like the start of a bad joke: an art forger, after having stolen massive numbers of pieces, discovers that his own forgeries have also been stolen and replaced by an even worse forgery. Yet nevertheless, it happened. To summarize: Xiao Yuan, who was working at a librarian at

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Abramović’s Performance Blurs Lines Between Audience and Performer

November 27, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Until recently, performance art had not been widely accepted as a form of expression. However, one woman was able to change this public opinion in the mid-1970s. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Marina Abramović’s first well-known performance piece proved that calling herself the “grandmother of performance art” is anything but inaccurate.

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Money, Power, and Exploitation

November 27, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

The line between cultural appropriation and appreciation is thin, but some things just can’t be argued. Cultural appropriation is a highly contested issue, and yet again we see another example of this with the Inuit people. The Inuit are a people living in the North, whose clothing consists of parkas,

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Challenging Censorship in Korea

November 27, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

K-pop, Korean pop, is a rapidly growing industry, reaching vast audiences across the globe. If anything, k-pop has more popularity internationally than they do in its own country. With more global influence and the shift to cater to international audiences, k-pop groups have moved to more risqué concepts that suit

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Ill-Planned Nazi Adverts for Phillip K. Dick Show

November 27, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Recently, Amazon released an episodic adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s novel The Man in the High Castle through their TV streaming service. The show, like the book on which it is based, follows the fate of an alternate United States taken over by the Axis powers following the Second World

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Bloody Hell

November 26, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Recently, a Canadian art school student came under fire when a heart was found in a trash can near his house. This caused suspicion by local authorities, who jumped to the worst conclusion and concluded that this must be a human heart. The student didn’t respond with panic because the

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