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FREE ON BAIL

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

China has released artist Ai Weiwei after more than two-and-a-half months of detention, state media announced.

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PORTUGAL TURNS RIGHT

Monday, June 6, 2011

After the election with the biggest vote abstention (4 million people in a country of 10 million) in the whole country’s history, Portugal elected a new right wing social democrat government.
The rain persists in staying lately, tourists are not as many as before, and the people seem generally lost and tired. EU winds of calm [...]

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protest kit

Saturday, May 28, 2011

In his just published Protest Stencil Toolkit Patrick Thomas supplies you with 46 die-cut stencils, plus a bespoke typeface, setting up a perfect toolkit for the graphics of protest. Any plans for the weekend?

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A LEVIATHAN FOR AI WEIWEI

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

British sculptor Anish Kapoor dedicates his enormous Leviathan sculpture which is shown at Grand Palais, Paris, to captured colleague Ai Weiwei. He called for a worldwide day of action where museums and galleries close for one day in sympathy for the plight of his fellow artist. Read about details in the Guardian article from today.

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KEEP CALM CARRY ON

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

If you haven’t seen it yet, then it’s high time to catch up: Inside Job is a brilliant documentary summing up the economic crisis of recent years. Narrated by Matt Damon and perfectly crafted, it breaks down the global financial meltdown into its singular components: how we got there, what happened, why it happened, the [...]

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TEA FOR AI WEIWEI

Thursday, April 14, 2011

A circle of jasmine tea, poured on the concrete in front of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin, was the symbolic act of protest against the detention of Ai Weiwei by a group of artists last weekend. It was reminiscent of Weiwei’s 2009 “Tea House” installation, a small tribute to the artist who remains under arrest. [...]

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REMEMBER, THINK, TALK, ACT

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Our friends at Koi Klub are organizing a charity event in reaction to the Japanese earthquake and nuclear meltdown. Please join for an evening of introspective music and art, based on donations.
Koi Klub at CHB.
Remember, Think, Talk and Act for the Future of Japan
Wednesday 13.4.2011 / 18h – 23h (Live performance will start exactly at [...]

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FREE AI WEIWEI

Thursday, April 7, 2011

It’s been five days now that our cover star Ai Weiwei has been arrested at Beijing airport and kept imprisoned at a secret location – not even his wife has been informed of where he is being held nor is she allowed to communicate with him. Yesterday, a brief statement by the government was released [...]

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GIRL POWER

Monday, March 28, 2011

As a little postscript, our friends at Koi Klub write a lot these days about Japan and the effects of the earthquake, from a very personal point of view and best of all, in Japanese and English. For instance, this curious tidbit that a blog by a 15 year old girl has become very popular [...]

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Benjamin Lowy’s Perspectives

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Recently selected by William Eggleston as winner of the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Benjamin Lowy’s Iraq | Perspectives series is one of my favorite projects I’ve seen this year. A conflict photographer, Lowy began Perspectives in 2005 while covering the war in Iraq, experiencing its landscape mainly through [...]

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