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Beach of the Dead
A personal letter to a mentor passed, commemorating her life and the influence she had on generations of artists in New York City.
Sidd Joag
Sidd Joag is a visual artist, journalist and producer working on issues closely related to social inequality and human rights, and the managing editor at ArtsEverywhere.
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Guardians of the Wind Farms
A Zapotec activist from Juchitán, Oaxaca is organizing an indigenous resistance movement to combat violent land appropriation for wind farms and extractive development projects while facing threats to his life.
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Lapiztola + Chiquitraca: Collective Crises
Oaxaca’s renowned street art is rooted in the political upheaval and months-long protests that enveloped the city in the summer 2006 and cemented a legacy of subversive, underground public art that continues to thrive today.
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High Tide: Reflections on Music, Isolation & Catharsis
In a time of unmediated isolation, loss and heartbreak, perhaps rediscovering our artistic passions and tapping our creative impulses can offer some respite.
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“No Maize Es No Pais”: Accounting as Artistic Practice
In a small, nondescript building on the outskirts of Oaxaca, conceptual artist and accountant Edith Morales has created an experimental urban “milpa” garden to study the ancient system of Mixe agriculture and document Oaxaca’s endemic species of maize for future generations.
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On This Day in History
A longitudinal reflection on politics and creativity, from the author’s birth to the controversial 2020 U.S. election.
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Refugee Zines
Lacking other resources, refugees and others on the move often use writing and reading together to site their politics. ArtsEverywhere editor Siddhartha Joag surveys some examples, from Myanmar to Uganda to Norway and Greece.
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House of the Deaf Man
Anticipating the chaos and depravity of the 2020 U.S. election, Francisco Goya’s paintings offer a portal to a comparable nightmarish period of human history.
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Black and Blues: Encounters With the Police State
The murder of George Floyd and the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement sparks memories of police brutality.
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Love in the Time of COVID-19
Optimistic reflections on the potential of creative practice in counteracting cultural malaise at the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tenuous Peace
Just two days shy of the impending October 31st Brexit deadline, an extension to January 31, 2020 now promises to draw contentious debate into the new year.
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Curse of Geography: Kachin State
In the resource rich jungles of Myanmar’s Kachin State, young Kachin students living in internally displaced people’s camps, traumatized by a sixty-year war, are exorcising their psychological demons and preserving their culture through painting and poetry.