Planning for Protest

“Because they’d been put up with gaps between them (...) they offered no sense of enclosure or completeness. This gave the whole display a surprising and ironic twist: the way the prototypes were arranged struck me as emblematic of the limits of Trump’s border-security aspirations.”

Trump’s border wall through the eyes of an architecture critic What can an architecture critic glean from prototypes for President Trump's border wall? Christopher Hawthorne takes a look at some models in San Diego.

"The move has been roundly praised by critics and observers as a strong political statement from an institution that is often seen as taking a neutral position. The re-hang quickly garnered a positive and emotional response from art-world insiders, visitors, and at least one employee who could be found strolling through the galleries today."

MoMA Took a Stand against Trump’s Immigration Ban. Here’s What New Yorkers Had to Say On Thursday night, MoMA hung works by artists from three of the seven countries impacted by President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

Artists Amplify the Power of Protest Signs See how artists, from Keith Haring to those marching at the Inauguration and Women's March in Washington, D.C., have created powerful protest signs.

'We live in a world of radical ignorance'
Robert Proctor

The man who studies the spread of ignorance How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.

'(...) it’s the informal aspects of the city that are capturing the imagination of both amateur and professional urbanists.'

Read on for a great report on Cairo practices which are 'mapping Cairo's in between spaces.'

The startups mapping Cairo's in between spaces Informality is the rule in Cairo, be it the sprawling extra-legal settlements that form a moat around the city center, forgotten alleys crisscrossing downtown, or the chaotic minibus network. Mapping these...

'This intersection of past and present, over different geographical locations, describes a divided identity where the sense of belonging and sentiment exist somewhere in between.'

The Architecture of Upheaval: These Powerful Drawings Visualize the Fragmented Experience of Migrants Evan Wakelin, an architecture student at the University of Toronto, has put on an exhibition that has people talking. In a series of unique drawings he compl...

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'Wary of future demolition, the residents of the village disguised their houses as tents by draping them with tarpaulins. It's an act of peaceful resistance to the destruction and forced migration that many Palestinian villages in Israeli-occupied territory have endured.'

In West Bank, Architectural Trickery Is A Form Of Self-Defense For the citizens of the Israeli-occupied village Susya, making a home look temporary is crucial to preserving it.

"As observers of art, rather than lawmakers or philosophers—who might question the egoistic concerns of art in the first place—we should consider how morality interacts with aesthetics."

Is There a Responsible Way to Make Art about Syria? Ai Weiwei famously caused outrage earlier this year when he posed as a drowned Syrian infant on a beach on the Greek island of Le**os. Now the Migration Museum Project, which hopes to launch the first museum dedicated to exploring migration to and from the United Kingdom, will open an exhibition thi…

“The contradictions are everywhere. They are visible and invisible.”

Egyptian Street Photographer Explores Revolutionary Change In Cairo 23-year-old Owise Abuzaid says, “The contradictions are everywhere. They are visible and invisible.”