Photorealistic Artist Pratt To Be Guest For SCAN, August 14 – The Newtown Bee
Ahead of a free movie weekend at Edmond Town Hall, we want to know: What is your favorite movie genre?
An Artist’s Maps of Imperialism and Greed – Hyperallergic
Dan Mills, “What’s in a Name? (state names the number of major geographic features named after indigenous people & words marked with red)” (2018), acrylic on collaged map laid down on board, 65 x 83 inches (all images courtesy of CMCA, photos by Luc Demers) ROCKLAND, Maine — A recent fundraising packet from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders includes a folding map of the world with the headline, “We find out where conditions are the worst — the places where others are not going — and that’s where we want to be.” On the reverse, the humanitarian organization highlights seven situations or spots in which it is “heavily invested,” including the Rohingya refugee crisis, South Sudan, Yemen, and the Central African Republic. The global numbers related to conflict and displacement are staggering. According to the UN Refugee Agency’s annual “Global Trends Report” released in June, nearly 70.8 million people were displaced at the end of 2018, with around 13.6 million ne...
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