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Public Perceptions of Crack vs Coke

May 12, 2022May 9, 2022 Jillian Clark

Picture this: a wealthy, white, fraternity member walks down the street just outside of his college campus and passes by a group of homeless men smoking crack cocaine. “Ew, there are so many crackheads in this area”, he exclaims. He will then go back to his fraternity house that same

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“Rap Snitches”: Is rapping about crime a confession?

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Jillian Clark

We’ve all heard it time and time again. Murder, robbery, drug dealing, and countless other crimes being spoken about in rap music. Crime and rap music undoubtedly have an intrinsic connection. But in a way, this is the beauty of the genre; it’s ability to shed light on what it’s

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Eyes Inward, Ears Covered

November 8, 2020April 2, 2021 Abbey Korte

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

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Welcome to the World Outside Yourself

October 11, 2020February 22, 2021 Abbey Korte

Driving to a destination requires that the driver be alert and looking for signs indicating where they are headed. Anyone who drives is familiar with the road signs along the freeway or highway telling travelers that there is a McDonald’s and an Arco gas station and an Olive Garden somewhere

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Proximity\’s Relationship to Art and Crime

September 20, 2020February 14, 2021 Abbey Korte

Where and how artwork is displayed can oftentimes have just as much effect on the viewer’s experience as the artwork itself. A piece can be meant to be admired from afar, or from as close as possible – this can be pre-determined by the artist themselves or be a happenstance

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Putting a Face on Crime Toll

May 1, 2019February 14, 2021 Annaiza Castellanos

Residents of the poor industrial city in Mexico, Ecatepec, have dedicated themselves to a community art project that has become a Mexican obsession. The citizens of this town are focused on visualizing victimhood, which essentially means broadcasting real people from the data. Marco Hernandez Murrieta is the president of the

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What Keeps You Sane?

November 15, 2017February 14, 2021 Gavin Broughton

You probably have never seen anything like the work of Robert Crumb before. What lives inside his mind is sexual, racist, disturbing, sometimes pornographic, and in every instance, odd. Much of his work tells stories of incest, necrophilia, assault, and pure mayhem. In the 1994 documentary “Crumb,” we uncover every

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Masterful Art Forgery: Is Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery?

September 20, 2017February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Throughout the grand history of art, there has always been individuals who want to profit off the success of major Artists by forging works of art. The media loves a daring art forgery story, such as the in the case of a New York art dealer called Ely Sakhai, who

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Shameless Acts

September 7, 2017February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

For the most part, Shameless the American (and British) running TV show is a brilliant representation of the use of the word shameless. The show is about the Gallagher family, a low income household with a drunk father, severely bipolar mother and kids that practically raised themselves, with help from

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Surfing Madonna in San Diego County

September 5, 2017February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

In 2011, after Easter weekend, a mosaic mural appeared unannounced under a bridge in Encinitas, California, a beach town about 30 minutes north of San Diego. The 12-foot tall mosaic depicted the Virgen de Guadalupe, the Virgin Mary who was believed to have appeared before an Indian peasant named Juan

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