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  • Uffizi Gallery's Vast Sculpture Collection Goes Online in Interactive 3D Scans

    August 15, 2018 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Response Location: Italy, Venice

    A partnership between Venice’s Uffizi Gallery and Indiana University is providing new access to the Uffizi’s collection of ancient sculpture. The Uffizi Digitization Project provides a web interface for visitors to see the work in interactive three-dimension scans.

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  • Bicycle Deaths in New York Are a Problem. The Ghost Bikes Project Wants to Solve It.

    August 14, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Ghost Bike Project installs stripped-down bikes at the scenes of fatal accidents to raise awareness about the work still needed to ensure safety for cyclists. Project staff also work to correct narratives about bike accidents which are often commonly blamed on the cyclist without cause.

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  • A Pop-Up Pencil Museum Underlines a History that Has Almost Been Erased

    August 13, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Commemorating the nearly forgotten history of one of New York City’s first factories, Jackie Mock’s installation “The Pencil Museum” places items related to the history of Eberhard Faber’s pencil company in outdoor vitrines. This installation is part of Art In the Parks, a series of public art installations placed in parks that are often without cultural programming.

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  • Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem's Muslim History.

    August 12, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    With gentrification rapidly changing New York City neighborhoods, there is a need to preserve these neighborhoods' history before it is erased. A tour of landmarks associated with Islam in Harlem helps keep this history alive and connects people to the larger narrative of Islam in America.

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  • Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

    August 01, 2018 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    In the late 1970s to late 1980s, activists, scientists, and politicians began to address the climate change crisis. For a decade, they attempted to ask the U.S. to commit to an international agreement to reduce emissions, and they almost succeeded. “In a single decade, they turned a crisis that was studied by no more than several dozen scientists into the subject of Senate hearings, front-page headlines and the largest diplomatic negotiation in world history.”

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  • Digitally Explore Thousands of Artifacts Excavated from an Amsterdam Canal

    July 10, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    Rather than museum worthy, beautiful crafted artworks made to stand the test of time, the Below the Surface exhibition and website displays the hundreds of years of detritus pulled from an Amsterdam construction site. The website allows visitors to interact with these objects and explore the changes in tools, usage, and culture over Amsterdam’s history.

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  • Chicano Artists Challenge How We Remember the Alamo

    July 09, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    A San Antonio art exhibition challenges the prevalent myth that the Alamo was a selfless Anglo sacrifice for independence by using historical records, past Chicano art, and contemporary art to show the battle was to protect slavery in Texas. The artwork celebrates Chicago justice and connects racism and xenophobia of the past with modern political narratives. The exhibit also elevates overlooked historical facts and underrepresented voices while confronting America’s history of racial and colonial oppression, a battle that is far from complete.

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  • The Activists Using Embroidery to Protest Mexico's Murder Epidemic

    July 03, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    The Fuentes Rojas call attention to Mexico's staggering murder rate and commemorate the lives of victims by staging interventions in public space. By hanging handkerchiefs embroidered with details of a victim's life, the group creates a visceral, empathetic memorial for those that have been lost.

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  • How Denver's Disability Activists Transformed the City

    July 01, 2018 |

    5280 - The Denver Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Disability activists have used nonviolent direct action for decades, including lying in the street to protest inaccessible public transit and crawling up the steps of the U.S. Capital to support the Americans with Disabilities Act. “We have never gone out a door that we do not have a solution for,” says ADAPT member Dawn Russell. “That’s ADAPT 101.”

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  • Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives

    June 21, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    The Archivist In a Backpack kit developed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill contains the essential elements for oral history collection including recorders, notepads, and thank you cards. The university is partnering with other organizations to distribute these kits and foster oral history gathering activities.

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