Mad Props go out to designer MockFu for this minimalist design which, at first glance, looks like a clever tribute to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock — until you notice the silhouette is actually someone else entirely. Beneath the image, a single word reads: Cock. Subtle? Hardly. Satisfying? Absolutely.
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Fashion has always been political, but sometimes it’s also pure celebration. Back in 2009, Nigerian-American designer Lola Faturoti found the perfect way to honor the historic election of President Barack Obama: she created a commemorative dress that was as vibrant and hopeful as the man himself.
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Street art has a way of holding up a mirror to culture, and in Freeman Alley, that reflection comes in the form of Lisa Simpson — reimagined as the Statue of Liberty. The mural, by French street artist FREON , casts everyone’s favorite precocious saxophone player as Lady Liberty herself, torch raised high in the name of freedom, truth, and maybe a little sass (expected).
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In Globe of the United States (1990), artist and activist David Wojnarowicz transforms a familiar object into a charged symbol of political and cultural critique. This mixed-media sculpture — a lightbulb-illuminated globe, its surface painted black — abandons the standard cartographic view of the world. Instead, multiple outlines of the United States float across a void of darkness, isolated from any surrounding continents.
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Since antiquity, nation states have used monumental figurative sculpture to convey authority, stability, glory, and heroism, thereby conferring status to ruling parties – whether dictators, monarchs, or democratically elected leaders.
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