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Critical Voices ‘Erased from Macedonian Arts’

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When artist Irena Paskali created a billboard poster questioning why many Macedonians had chosen to pay twice for utilities rather than object to being double-billed, she didn’t quite get the reaction she expected. Her billboard was to have been included in the 2014 exhibition Billboard Art 2: Procrastination organised by the Institute for Culture and Art (Ars Acta) and held in the streets of the capital Skopje. To Paskali’s surprise, however, the exhibition organisers couldn’t find a Macedonian printing house willing to print the billboard, which she had entitled: Double for Every

Amani Yahya, Yemen’s first female rapper: I will find a way, I will shine

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It’s day three of the Liverpool Arab Arts festival, but one of its performers hasn’t yet been to a single event. Amani Yahya – billed as Yemen’s first female rapper – is still thousands of miles away. With her homeland on the brink of civil war, Yahya, along with her family, has had to flee to Saudi Arabia, where the kingdom’s strict rules mean her fledging musical career has come to an abrupt halt. On top of this, her visa to attend the UK festival has been denied. But, if exile and war would be enough to crush most people, the disappointment at missing the festival is the o

Wordless Ads Speak Volumes In ‘Unbranded’ Images Of Women

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Advertisements don't need any words to say a lot about a culture. In the run-up to the 2016 election — and the possibility of a white woman being nominated — Hank Willis Thomas has mounted a new exhibit, featuring women in print. It's called Unbranded: A Century of White Women, and it features images from mainstream commercial print advertisements from 1915 to today. Thomas said, "We can almost never tell what it's actually an ad for, because ads really aren't about the products. It's about what myths and generalizations we can attach, and the repetition of imagery of a certain type.

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