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Governments were cracking down on street art everywhere.... until they realized they could make money off of it. Where does this leave street art and its artists today? I explore the street art scene in Toronto and some parts of Berlin to see how street art is navigating its changing culture.

Scholar Sunaura Taylor on March 5 [2019] presented a talk titled "Disabled Ecologies: Living with Impaired Landscapes" at UC Berkeley co-sponsored by the Haas Institute's Disability Studies Cluster, the Departments of Art Practice, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

Learn more about this event here, and check [this link] for a transcript of the talk.

The iMWiL! Introductory Critical Media Literacy (Video) Mixtape features interviews with #JanineJackson, #KaliAkuno, #JoyJames, #ClaudeMarks, #SafiyaUmojaNoble, #MorganMaxwell, music from #HecDolo, #TheCornelWestTheory, #TheWelfarePoets, #BigL, #DJPremier plus #KwameTure, #bellhooks, #PaulaGiddings and more! The video outlines some of the key concepts involved in developing an understanding of our media environment including racism, critical thinking, political economy, the state, commercialism, myths of origin, dominant narrative and alternative media.*

*November 2017

Though the trope of the "Ecological Indian" is indelible in popular culture, history tells a much more complicated story. Featuring cutting edge perspectives rarely seen outside academia and in-depth interviews with indigenous historians, climate scientists, and other experts, this video will dispel the paternalistic myths and reveal Native American ecology in all its ingenious, imperfect glory.

Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.

CW: Around the 20 minute mark, footage of an execution is briefly shown.

Related essays can be found on ways-of-seeing.com