Photos By Gail
This week’s Pink Thing of the Day spotlights one of the most delightfully unexpected protest accessories we spotted at the No Kings Rally held in NYC last October: an Inflatable Pink Axolotl Costume, worn proudly by a demonstrator. Continue reading Pink Thing Of The Day: Activist in Inflatable Pink Axolotl Costume
Photo By Gail
Corita Kent (1918 – 1986), also known in the Catholic Church as Sister Mary Corita, incorporated a range of refereces into her silkscreen prints, spanning pop culture imagery and song lyrics, biblical allusions and literary conceits.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Corita Kent I Should Be Able to Love My Country and Still Love Justice
Coral Forest, Installation View (All Photos By Gail)
Crochet Coral Reef: Toxic Seas celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Crochet Coral Reef (2005–present), an ongoing project by sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim and their Los Angeles–based organization, the Institute For Figuring. Mixing crocheted yarn with plastic trash, the work fuses mathematics, marine biology, feminist art practices, and craft to produce large-scale coralline landscapes, both beautiful and blighted. At once figurative, collaborative, worldly, and dispersed, the Crochet Coral Reef offers a tender response to the dual calamities facing marine life: climate change and plastic trash.
Continue reading Crochet Coral Reef, Toxic Seas at The Museum of Arts and Design
The Gulabi Gang (from Hindi gulabi, translation Pink Gang) is a group of women vigilantes and activists originally from Banda in Bundelkhand district, Uttar Pradesh, India, but reported to be active across North India as of 2010. It is named after the Pink Saris worn by its members.
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