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To combat post-election frustrations, artist turns letter-writing into a form of female empowerment
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BY: KIRSTEN POWLEY We’ve all heard someone call letter-writing a lost art form and when you think about it, when was the last time you picked up a pen to write a personalized note to someone you…

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Expression & Culture
This innovative website is giving unknown female artists a voice
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BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY  Attitudes are improving in today’s society. Attitudes towards sexuality, race and gender are being challenged as a means to make the world as good a place as it possibly can…

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Expression & Culture
This artist uses foraged natural materials to make magical mandala altars (Photos)
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BY: TIM O’NEAL Each morning for the past five years, Day Schildkret has walked his dog through Wildcat Canyon in Richmond, California, carrying a basket. As they walk, he forages for “local obje…

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Art As A Weapon
This Palestinian artist is using fierce makeup to address pressing global issues (photos)
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Rand Jarallah is a Palestinian activist who’s using art and makeup to raise awareness about different issues that she is passionate about. Her work is thematizing gender-based violence, global w…

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Global Stage
There is no stress with these out-of-this-world baby portraits
The Plaid Zebra January 25, 2017

Tea Jo is a Croatian-based photographer and she is specialised in newborn photography. Tea is photographing a couple of days old babies in the most magical way ever. The sole tranquillity of the babie…

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Expression & Culture
These portraits reveal a vulnerable side of masculinity that’s rarely seen (NSFW)
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BY: SAMANTHA TAPP All photos via © Tyler Udall / The Little Black Gallery Last year, CoverGirl named James Charles the brand’s first-ever male model. This was quickly followed by an announcement this …

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Expression & Culture
The futuristic beauty of the Balkans’ WWII monuments (photos)
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The Balkan peninsula is the melting pot of cultures and nations. It’s on the verge of Europe. The Balkans have been the spot for the most profound political games in the continent’s histor…

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Expression & Culture
These Indian graphic novels feature inspirational, badass female leads
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BY: KRUPA JOSEPH For years, in India, comics were cast aside as entertainment for the less educated. Then, in 1967, Amar Chitra Katha breathed life into Indian myths, legends, and history and transfor…

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Expression & Culture
This photographer is obsessed with redheads and it’s the most magical thing you’ll see today (photos)
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BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Alexandra Bochkareva has a thing for redheads and freckles. The St. Petersburg-based photographer’s fascination with gingers started when she began dabbling in photography four years…

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Expression & Culture
This rare footage from 1995 could reveal who Banksy really is
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BY: SAMANTHA TAPP For years the British artist, Banksy, has captured our hearts and the attention of the art world. His satirical street art is not only humorous, but usually has a deeper meaning focu…

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Expression & Culture
This anonymous man is drawing penises around potholes so the government will fix them
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BY: SAMANTHA TAPP You see graffiti in every city; it’s covering the walls in alleyways, painted down the side of abandoned buildings, and created as a pieces of artwork on the walls of businesse…

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Expression & Culture
This man tracked down strangers he photographed 40 years ago to recreate the photos
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BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Punks, kids eating ice-cream, policemen on duty and lovers bidding farewell. These are some of the images paramedic Chris Porsz captured in the late 1970s and 1980s. The amateur phot…

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Body Vs Mind
It looks like your procrastination isn’t necessarily a bad thing: maybe you’re an original thinker!
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“Originals are not conformists. They are the people that stand out and speak up. Originals drive the creative changes in the world. They are the people you wanna bet on. And they look nothing li…

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Global Stage
How Banksy has captured our hearts and our minds.
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By: Andrew Uyeno We tend to love mysteries. Did aliens land in Roswell? Does the Bermuda Triangle really make ships disappear? Where did Amelia Earhart go? And also: who is Banksy? The graffiti artist…

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Expression & Culture
Meet Iris – the five-year-old autistic artist who created these stunning masterpieces
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By: Adrian Smith Autism is an often poorly understood mental condition that becomes present in early childhood, causing children to experience difficulty communicating and forming relationships. The c…

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Expression & Culture
Artist uses bones and skulls as a canvas to create intricate works of art
The Plaid Zebra May 28, 2016

  BY: JESSICA BEUKER   Jason Borders is not your typical artist. Instead of paper he uses bones and skulls as his canvas. The result is an intricate and beautiful collection of artwork like you’v…

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Expression & Culture
To the young, struggling and aspiring writers – this letter is for you
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  BY: Adrian Smith It isn’t always easy for writers, especially young, aspiring writers, to be revealing of their thoughts, ideas and emotions within their work. Leonard W., the 17-year-old proté…

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Expression & Culture
Trolling Trump: The Art and Satire of the 2016 Campaign Vol 2
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BY: M. TOMOSKI In the 1988 film They Live, ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper stands in the streets of Los Angeles and looks through a pair of propaganda busting sunglasses that reveal the hidden alien messages behi…

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Expression & Culture
This artist made people disappear as China’s smog problem reached an all-time high.
The Plaid Zebra January 11, 2016

BY: MELISSA BOODOO As people cycled their way to work, their smog masks tied firmly over their nose, debris-filled air circling around them, an important nationwide alert sounded off. The models pose …

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Expression & Culture
This art dealer only sells homeless artists’ work because talent is found in unlikely places
The Plaid Zebra November 23, 2015

BY: SWIKAR OLI Buy some art and help someone in need—that’s the mutually beneficial idea driving ArtLifting, a startup that recently raised $1.1 million and provides a platform for homeless and disabl…

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