Katie Orlinsky on Lens
Lens, the photojournalism blog of the New York Times, has posted a collection of photos by Katie Orlinsky of Central America immigrants in Mexico City waiting to hop trains to…
Lens, the photojournalism blog of the New York Times, has posted a collection of photos by Katie Orlinsky of Central America immigrants in Mexico City waiting to hop trains to…
I recently went to see Propagandhi play in Milwaukee. At this show I first heard about the Tar Sands, a dirtier more toxic way of producing oil than usual. Some…
Mark Vallen, who is a painter and printmaker and runs the art-for-a-change blog, has a bunch of really nice prints for sale on his site. He just posted a Sandanista…
RUST (Radical Urban Silkscreen Team) 2009, a project of Artists Image Resource and The Andy Warhol Museum, is coming to a close. During the month of July, we cooled down…
I stumbled on this design site, Belog, which has a great collection of Iranian graphics, including a bunch of very cool posters and book covers. Here’s the link to the…
Our friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy are looking for designers and artists to work with on their great Making Policy Public project. Check it out: The Making Policy…
My friends at Jura Books in Sydney need help! They are holding a cool raffle to raise money, with one of the big prizes being this great historic Australian political…
Our friend Kazembe Balagun, who runs the blog Black Man with a Library, has just posted a podcast interview he did with Black Panther artist Emory Douglas. I’ve embedded it…
My friends Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida have just finished up an interesting video they’ve been working on for awhile called Strike Anywhere. Strike Anywhere takes as its direct subject…
Friend, Paper Politics contributor and Reproduce & Revolt artist David Loewenstein has just installed a cool series of window installations at the Power and Light Building in Kansas City. David…
Here’s an article from the NY Times City Room Blog, by Colin Moynihan, about yesterdays land occupation in NYC, by Picture the Homeless. Its a good article about the action…
I am Xicano. My family roots tie me to this land. My ancestors have moved across the Americas for thousands of years. I grew up in South San Diego just…
Some friends of mine are on a bicycle trip in Indonesia at the moment. Photographer Tod Seelie has posted some beautiful images on his blog Suckapants, there are 1, 2…
This past weekend Peter and I participated in Artscape. We had a booth on the bridge outside the train station alongside of “the duelling court”, “dunk the chump”, space alien…
Oh my goodness! I was completely taken off guard at work last night, I had to project a 16mm print of Agnes Varda’s film “Mur Murs”. The film is about…
Artwork Inspired by 21st Century Breakdown Green Day commissioned artist Logan Hicks to assemble a group of artists to create works of art based on each song from 21st Century…
A couple friends have sent along a link to a new collection of Counter Globalization Movement posters someone has put together in a online image album. It’s a great collection,…
I just found this interview artist Kevin McCloskey did with Shinzaburo Takeda, the artist who taught the ASAR-O collective in Oaxaca, Mexico. Read the full interview here in the e-zine…
RUST (Radical Urban Silkscreen Team), a Pittsburgh youth print project of the Andy Warhol Museum and Artists Image Resource, is kicking off to a fresh Summer 2009 season. Justseeds members…
Molly found this, but I don’t think either of us wanted to re-type all the info, so I’m just re-posting this pdf announcement for Black Panther films in relation to…
My friend Tom Civil and his brother Ned (“Evil Brothers”) installed what looks to be an amazing cardboard ghost train at the There Goes the Neighbourhood exhibition at the Performance…
Justseeds members who come to town to do a residency at AS220 also end up doing a mushroom foraging residency. Aha! Luck at Last! Pictured are a couple Bolete mushrooms….
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics has just put up some great new online exhibitions. You can go to their site and look through each of these exhibits…
Here is a photo of my most recent linoleum block that reveals my latest secret to more colors on one print. Pictured here is me inking 5 colors on one…
Erik Ruin has been spending the month of July in Providence at my work place, making art and having a blast. Here are some photos of the liberation banner he…
The insurrection in Greece in December was a visible and mass expression of the social war that rages at all times and will continue until the destruction of all domination….
Jared Davidson/Garage Collective has put out possibly his last issue of Rivet, a journal o art and anarchism. Jared has been at the center of a number of political debates…
If you understand the logic of the economic system in which we currently live, the following story will come as no surprise. Nonetheless our understandings don’t prevent us from having…
I’ve had the discussion about my frustration with the saying “vote with your dollars”. Thats not voting, its consumerism. Its an economic relationship and system that denigrates activity and participation…
The Progress Illinois site has a good post on a recent action by the TAMMS Year Ten coallition demanding that the Chicago Tribune retract a fault-ridden editorial about TAMMS. The…
To be honest, I do not know that much about Andrés Ramírez, other than that he is a Mexican poster artist whose posters I’ve seen over the years and think…
Its summer in NYC, and despite June having the 2nd most rainfall on record dumping on NYC 23 out of 30 days, Chris Stain was able to paint with some…
Erik is the artist and residence at my workplace right now, and we spent 20 minutes today at lunch having fun making this exquisite corpse:
Protests against the G8 meeting are underway in Italy and the IMC is covering the events as they unfold. http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/ On the opening day of the G8 summit, Greenpeace activists…
My partner Peter and I just made a couple tinctures from herbs we grew in our garden! ((Disclaimer: Before you make your own tincture, you should do a lot of…
This just in via the email pipeline: Left Turn, a national publication and network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism, is currently…
Charges have been dropped against four of the SF8! For actual information about the case click here.
From the UWM SDS blog… “This 4th of July, SDS celebrated revolution, and independence from empire. Students from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Marquette University jumped into two parades,…
I just stumbled across this interesting site, a re-purposing of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis in an attempt to discuss recent events in Iran. I can’t say I agree with all the…
I used to play in a park across the street from the county jail while growing up. I vividly remember (when I was really young) heavily armed policeman guarding those…