Tag: Protest

The big question here is, should we be offended when an athlete displays a form of non-violent protest during the playing of our national anthem? Think back to the 1968 Summer Olympics when American bronze and gold medal winners John Carlos and Tommy Smith raised their fists in the air while...

In February 2012, as Vladimir Putin was gearing up to steal the Russian presidential ‘election’ that year, the performance art group Pussy Riot staged an audacious and provocative work inside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Dressed in colourful outfits and balacl...

There are few words as misunderstood and misappropriated in today’s lexicon as the term “street”. A word that still prompts mental caricatures of late ’80s Brooklyn and the adidas Superstars, boomboxes and graffitied subways that are inescapably conjoined to the era, street c...

Amsterdam is an amazing sanctuary for street artists across the globe. From the NDSM-Werf, a hub of street art and art studios, to any neighborhood corner or alleyway, art can be found covering walls, doors, the ground itself, and anywhere an artist decides where they want their canvas to be. Unlike...

The Libyan Government of National Unity yesterday instructed its ambassador in Athens to issue a protest note to Greece to clarify the circumstances of its foreign minister’s refusal to disembark from a plane during his visit to Tripoli last Thursday. A statement by the Libyan Foreign Minis...