Billy Elliot In Context. William Blake's radicalism. William Blake: Poet, Artist & Visionary - a genius of early Romanticism in England. Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean. The British street artist Banksy has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa, the Guardian can reveal.
The vessel, named Louise Michel after a French feminist anarchist, set off in secrecy on 18 August from the Spanish seaport of Burriana, near Valencia, and is now in the central Mediterranean where on Thursday it rescued 89 people in distress, including 14 women and four children. It is now looking for a safe seaport to disembark the passengers or to transfer them to a European coastguard vessel.
Dismaland: inside Banksy’s dystopian playground. Performance and Protest: Can Art Change Society? Amid the racial justice movement, artists wield their art as a tool for change. 'Art of Protest': Watch Full Indecline Documentary on Resistance Art. When Indecline started work on their documentary The Art of Protest in late 2018, they wanted to tell the history of resistance art.
Over the previous two years — since they broke onto the national consciousness with their naked-Trump, guerilla-art instillation The Emperor Has No Balls, the activist-artist collective has staged numerous pieces of public art in protest of the Trump presidency. To tell the story, they reached out to Colin Day (director of Saving Banksy) and started shopping around the idea to streaming services. But as the pandemic unfolded, and the Black Lives Matter movement reignited across the streets of the nation, their mission changed. As a representative for Indecline puts it: “What was once set up to be a deep dive into the history of resistance art, soon became a ‘call to action.’” At the heart of the film is Indecline’s work over the past four years. Indecline, Group Behind Naked Trumps, Premieres Documentary Trailer. Indecline, an activist collective based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, first made a name for themselves in 2016.
That summer, inspired by the farcical campaign of Donald Trump — and the art they’d seen during the election season, most notably Illma Gore’s portrait of the future 45, painted in her menstrual blood — the group put on a cross-country show of guerilla art. Early one August morning, teams in five cities simultaneously unveiled unauthorized, six-foot-five statues of Donald Trump, naked, his manhood comically small against the grotesque folds of his nude body. Based on these statues, crafted by a horror artist named Ginger, the installation —called, fittingly, “The Emperor Has No Balls” — was documented by a shadow crew and turned into a video project in itself, a short film of the creation and implementation of an ambitious art project. Best of Banksy - an exhibition of his greatest hits. Some of Banksy's most famous works, including Girl and Balloon (2006) and Show Me the Monet (2005), are part of a London exhibition exclusively focused on Bristol's elusive artist.
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