Congratulations to artist, activist Stephen Barnwell whose “Capital Offenses” moneyart will be on display at Monmouth Museum, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ, as part of the NJ Emerging Artists Series, now through September 8, 2019.
Studio KCA Turns Pollution into Provocation
The Brooklyn artists once again sculpt an environmental statement.
“Kauai plastic going into Belgian sculpture”
by Jessica Else
The Garden Island
August 23, 2017
Plastic from Kauai”s beaches is going to Belgium where it will become part of a 30-foot tall blue whale sculpture.
It”s all part of Brooklyn-based Studio KCA”s project to create larger than life reminders of human impacts to the environment, and most of the materials for the sculpture are coming from Kauai.
“A lot of our plastic waste is collecting in Hawaii “” the northern part of Kauai and the southern part of Hawaii Island,” said Jason Klimoski, co-owner of Studio KCA.
Klimoski and his partner Lesley Chang are also gathering plastic from the United States” west coast and east coast for the project.
Klimoski and Chang are architects and artists who got their start in gigantic sculptures with eco-friendly messages in 2013 with a sculpture on Governor”s Island, New York. Read more.
Banksy Does Gaza
Banksy has posted a new tourism video welcoming world travelers to the wonders of Gaza:
Some of the images:
More about this piece here.
More about Banksy here.
Top 9 Political Art Projects of 2010 from ArtThreat.net
9 amazing political art projects of 2010
by Michael Lithgow
ArtThreat.net
December 10, 2010
Nasty galleries, arrests, fast food, American imperialism, Olympic culture jamming, cyborgs and cute cartoons
The star of “˜engaged art” is on the rise. The number of artists creating, performing, and exploring in the world of social and political reality is mushrooming. Or maybe that”s the way it has always been, and new technologies are allowing us to do end-runs around gate-keeping curators and mainstream media. Either way, we are discovering whole worlds of politically engaged and celebrated artists that not so long ago would just as likely have been escorted from the hallowed houses of high art for disturbing the peace.
Call it what you will “” engaged art, social practice, avant-garde, dialogical aesthetics, community art, public art, activist art, radical art “” audiences for the confounding, beautiful, horrible and hilarious kinds of symbolic dissidence these practices describe are growing. When Art Threat started three years ago there was only a few websites like us. Now there are dozens. This is a very good thing.
A top 10 (or 9) list is a necessarily troubled compromise made up as it is by hierarchy and exclusion. On the up side it”s like a map “” something to help navigate an increasingly complicated and at times overwhelming volume of cultural choices. So here”s my map of people and organizations to watch for, some better known than others, but all involved in making art that gets under the skin and changes “” at least I hope it does “” in some undeniable way those who encounter it.
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