We’ve been seeing a lot of very cool VOTE images from artists peppering the instagrams of arts galleries and museums. Here’s a trove along with essential resources for planning your vote.
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Ai Weiwei: On Home, Living in Isolation, Hope
Ai Weiwei’s thinking on purpose, home, isolation, hope are an insightful lens through which to consider our current circumstance. And especially, how the impossible becomes possible.
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Perspective: Politics 75 Years Ago, via The New Yorker
Things seem so dire politically, that we jumped on to the New Yorker’s cartoon bank to see if we could find something that would lighten things up a bit.
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Zoe Leonard on Why Her 1992 Poem “I Want a President” Stays Viral
When this astonishing image came over our email transom today, its force and clarity stopped us in our tracks. 25+ after she wrote it, artist Zoe Leonard refines its message.
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The BEST Ways to Register Your Opinion with Congress
Like many people, we are wondering what the best way is to let Congress know what we think. We found New Yorker ‘What Calling Congress Achieves’ hugely helpful in understanding how different kinds of correspondence is received. Here’s what you need to know about the most effective way to petition the government.
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Lego’s Questionable Values Denies Ai Weiwei Art Materials
(Video link here.) We just heard the astonishing news that Lego, a company whose product we have featured numerous times as a symbol of possibility, has refused to fill a large order of its plastic bricks — an art material — for Chinese artist’s Ai Weiwei upcoming exhibition at in Australia. Their reason: They don’t provide bricks…
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Bernie Sanders Plays the Congas + Nails It about ART
(Video link here.) In this season of unlikely presidential candidates, we like to imagine what a real, deconstructed, unarmored, groovey president might look like. The Huffington Post gave us a joyous taste with their brilliant edit of the Democratic Presidential Debate that has Bernie Sanders playing conga drums. It’s like they all took off their girdles. Whew. Sanders, after all, is the…
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samuel l. jackson: “wake the fu*k up!!”
(Video link here.) We laughed out loud at Samuel L. Jackson’s new video, an exortation for apathetic Obama supportors to get off their asses and take some action in the election. (It’s a play on his last year’s wildly successful children’s story “Go the Fu*k to Sleep.) It worked; we donated some $$ for a…
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