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fromHyperallergic
1 hour ago

Trump Targets New Deal-Era Art

New Deal-era murals in the Wilbur Cohen Building face political threats, prompting petitions and advocacy to protect socially focused artworks by Ben Shahn and others.
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from48 hills
12 hours ago

Drama Masks: Stage predictions for 2026 - 48 hills

Bay Area theatre faces uncertainty from reduced funding, political turmoil, and limited January programming, threatening venues, arts institutions, and future productions.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 hour ago

SpY's monumental divided sphere installation illuminates xi'an in bright red light

A monumental red luminous sphere split into two identical hemispheres creates an immersive corridor of light within urban space, contrasting curved form and industrial scaffolding.
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fromHyperallergic
16 hours ago

Uman's Diasporic Abstraction

Uman's work evokes floating, mutable memories that bridge a lost homeland and the imagined labor of dreaming it back into existence.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
23 hours ago

Ten artists receive 100,000 as winners of Chanel Next Prize 2026

This year's recipients, who come from ten different countries and a range of disciplines, are Álvaro Urbano, Ambrose Akinmusire, Andrea Peña, Ayoung Kim, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Emeka Ogboh, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Pan Daijing, Payal Kapadia and Pol Taburet. Apart from representing the visual arts, they include a jazz trumpeter (Akinmusire), filmmaker (Kapadia) and a dancer (Da Silva Ferreira, a former elite swimmer who won Portugal's version of the reality television show "So You Think You Can Dance" in 2010 and is now an established choreographer).
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fromHyperallergic
15 hours ago

Activists Fight to Salvage the "Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art"

A group of artists, preservationists, and activists is sounding the alarm against Trump's potential demolition of a prominent federal office building next to the National Mall, and the treasured artworks inside it - including several New Deal-era murals that speak to the value of Social Security in the United States. Alex Lawson, executive director of the advocacy organization Social Security Works, co-authored a petition to save the works with local muralist Absurdly Well.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Martin Luther King Jr. in Art and Memory

Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors King's legacy through commemoration, cultural programs, a 40-year mural, and the activism that secured the federal holiday.
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fromHyperallergic
15 hours ago

What the Smithsonian Won't Say About Grandma Moses

Grandma Moses's comforting myth must be deconstructed because her work embodies harmful American exceptionalist values.
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fromHyperallergic
17 hours ago

This Is the Year We Redefine Art Institutions

Museums face intensified scrutiny and changing roles as artists, workers, and communities renegotiate governance, authorship, and representation, prompting institutional shifts and new precedents.
fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

The 2026 Olympics are the most widespread in history. See what's happening where

The 2026 Olympics are set to be the most geographically widespread Games in history, the first to span multiple regions and two host cities: Milan and Cortina, which are about 250 miles apart from each other by road. Over the course of two and a half weeks, athletes in 16 sports will compete in events at 25 venues. The action is divided among four main clusters across northern Italy: Milan, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Valtellina and Val di Fiemme.
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fromHyperallergic
17 hours ago

Lotty Rosenfeld Weaponized the Line

Lotty Rosenfeld used repeated minor interventions—transforming traffic markings into crosses—to visibly tally state violence and destabilize authoritarian public space.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

Winslow Homer's mountaineer and Bob Ross's valley view: our pick of the January auctions

Winslow Homer, who began as a Civil War reporter artist, later became known for depicting the US's growing culture of leisure as expanding transportation networks enabled more people to visit the country's natural landmarks. A Mountain Climber Resting is a quintessential example, showing a mountaineer resting after an ascent and admiring the view. The composition closely resembles a drawing in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
20 hours ago

Crossing into Darkness review Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell

Tracey Emin curated a nocturnal exhibition combining diverse media and artists to explore inner visions, uneasy portraiture, and night-themed creativity.
fromArtforum
15 hours ago

Artforum Founding Editor Philip Leider Dies at 96

Philip Leider, the founding editor in chief of Artforum, died at his home in Berkeley, California, on January 11. He was ninety-six. His death was confirmed by his daughter Polly Leider. Taking the helm of the magazine from its inception in 1962, Leider made it his mission to separate the world of art from the world of commerce. Under his leadership, Artforum quickly became the most influential and widely respected art publication in the country.
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fromBerlin Art Link
1 day ago

Review of David Horvitz at ChertLudde | Berlin Art Link

In ChertLüdde, evocations abound: the show is a transcription of California (I've never been, but I imagine it to be sun drenched and a bit dehydrated), which is transposed onto the grid of the gallery in Schöneberg. Shells, dried stalks, bits of pottery, sea urchins, art left behind by visitors, are arranged on a stage (a duplication of the one found in Horvitz's garden in Los Angeles),
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
23 hours ago

Bay Area events calendar for Jan. 23-29 weekly editions

Jurassic Quet: Experience North America's largest moving, roaring, and breathing dinosaurs coming alive in this fully immersive walk-through experience. Dig for fossils, ride life-sized dinosaurs, and let kids play in the Lego-themed play zones. Tickets are priced starting at $26.85. 12 p.m., Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Rd, San Jose. bit.ly/3Nh8t3c Jan. 24 Hopelessly Romantic Symphony San Jose: Conducted by Francois Lopez-Ferrer, this concert comes with intense emotions and wonderful melodies composed by Jean Sibelius,
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fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

The Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting

After six centuries of Swedish rule, and more than a hundred years as a grand duchy of Russia, your nation is finally on the brink of independence. To the south, Europe is tearing itself to bits in the First World War; to the east, there's the Russian Revolution. Most of the art you've seen at this point is either second-rate or beats a patriotic drum-lakes and forests and scenes from the "Kalevala," a national epic featuring some cosmic eggs and a drowned girl.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 day ago

pixel virtual gardens and robotic installations animate miguel chevalier's solo digital art show

Digital by Nature: The Art of Miguel Chevalier at Kunsthalle München presents the artist's largest solo exhibition in Europe to date, curated by Franziska Stöhr. The exhibition surveys Miguel Chevalier's practice from the early 1980s to the present, tracing his sustained engagement with digital technologies as both tools and subjects of artistic inquiry. Born in 1959 in Mexico City and based in Paris, Chevalier has worked with computers as a creative medium for more than four decades.
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fromVulture
1 day ago

'An Ark' at the Shed Is All Headsets, No Heartbeat

An Ark is a 47-minute mixed-reality theater piece using VR and prerecorded stars that feels overhyped, restrictive, and disappointingly bland.
fromBusline News
20 hours ago

Laketran Accepting Entries For 2026 Design A Bus Wrap Student Art Contest - Busline News

We're always amazed by the creativity of our student artists. This year's America 250 theme encourages students to explore our local impact on the nation's story through art,
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fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

Adrian Tomine's "Post-Vacation"

A winter subway scene features a suntanned rider back from a beach getaway, provoking envy, perceived gloating, and a wry, apologetic recognition.
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fromJuxtapoz
5 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Carla Fuentes "The Drivers" @ RIO & MENAKA, Madrid

Family craftsmanship and car nostalgia inspire oil portraits that crop vehicle geometries, preserve lost color, and capture journeys, memories, and personal transformation.
fromVulture
1 day ago

The Disappear Vanishes Up Its Own Navel

The short version: Hannah was married to Andrew, and Anna was married to Ryan. Then Anna and Andrew slept together and both marriages blew up. Then, six years after that, just as Andrew was finishing the manuscript of a novel closely paralleling his breakup, he found out that Hannah had beat him to the punch: Her book about a marriage-destroying affair (subtitled "A Memoir [kind of]") would be published nine months before his.
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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
22 hours ago

Curtain Calls: Stephen King inspiration for improvised Screaming Good Time!' in East Bay

An improvised, audience-driven Stephen King homage delivers strong comedic performances and embraces outrageous suggestions but needs brisker pacing to maintain momentum.
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fromThe Mercury News
21 hours ago

Cooking show stirs up memories in 'Running After Shadows'

A one-man play examines a Black son's reckoning with an absent father through a social-media-driven culinary career.
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fromDefector
20 hours ago

The Crossword, Jan. 19: Sole Cycle | Defector

Monday crossword constructed by Hanh Huynh and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu; Defector crosswords run weekly in partnership with AVCX, with submission guidelines available.
fromwww.theguardian.com
17 hours ago

The Guardian view on Poems on the Underground at 40: public art to be proud of | Editorial

Inspired by a reading of As You Like It, Judith Chernaik, an American writer living in London, conceived a plan to scatter poetry across the underground as the love-sick Orlando hangs sonnets through the Forest of Arden. Her simple idea took root below the sewers and spread to cities across the world. Poetry in Motion launched in New York in 1992, and today poems can be found on public transport in Dublin, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Warsaw and Moscow.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Be More Bird by Candida Meyrick review less soaring avian self-help than a parroting of tired cliches

Bird, a Harris hawk, embodies vivid inner life and precise physical needs, forming twenty concise life lessons that contrast anthropomorphism with natural fact.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Radical and joyous': Beryl Cook show aims to prove she was a serious artist

Beryl Cook created vibrant, compassionate paintings that documented working-class life, body positivity, and queer culture, asserting her significance as a chronicler of social change.
fromTime Out London
2 days ago

The City of London is getting a brand-new light and sound festival this month

But at the end of this month, there's a brand new festival arriving to inject some colour into the financial district. 'Vibrance' will light up Roman ruins, medieval churches and secret gardens across the Square Mile on Thursday January 29 and Friday January 30 from 5.30pm until 8.30pm. Created by Guildhall Production Studio, it brings together more than a dozen artworks and live performances by emerging artists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
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fromwww.london-unattached.com
1 day ago

Woolf Works, Award Winning Dance from Royal Ballet

Woolf Works translates Virginia Woolf's novels into an atmospheric, non-narrative ballet that evokes consciousness and memory through inventive choreography and Max Richter's hypnotic score.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Sheila Bernette obituary

Sheila Bernette was a vivacious 5ft-tall English actress and singer whose career spanned childhood, West End, music-hall, television variety and international performances.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

I can't waste this': Michael Sheen on his riskiest role yet saving Wales's national theatre

Since Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town in 1938, it is said that not a day has passed when the Pulitzer prize-winning show hasn't been performed. Every time I read it, I come away with the feeling of having been woken up, says Michael Sheen, star of the upcoming touring production of Wilder's play about a close-knit community in small-town America. With this urgent sense of I have to not waste this.'
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fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

Hula is a hallowed - and healing - tradition for dancers from Fremont

A Fremont halau preserves and teaches traditional Hawaiian and Tahitian dance, passing cultural knowledge through multigenerational instruction, performance tours, and community practice.
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fromConsequence
1 day ago

America's Oldest Dance Troupe Cancels Performance at Kennedy Center

The Martha Graham Dance Company canceled its April 2026 Kennedy Center performance amid a broader wave of over 20 cancellations since Trump's takeover.
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

Et Tu, South Africa?

South Africa's culture minister canceled Gabrielle Goliath's Venice Biennale performance about Gaza, prompting accusations of censorship and erasure of Palestinian suffering.
fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

Yes, introverts and extroverts can be good friends. Here's how

Introversion and extroversion are on "opposite ends of a continuum" and not a binary, says William Chopik, a social-personality psychologist at Michigan State University. "People mostly fall somewhere in between those two extremes." Introverts are quieter, more introspective, deliberate, really into alone time. Extroverts are more talkative, outgoing, energetic, and very into socializing. Where you fall on the spectrum isn't static. For example, people tend to get a little more introverted as they get older, says Chopik, because of shifts in motivation, energy and lifestyle.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 days ago

Fabien Merelle Masters Ink And Watercolor To Craft Pyjama-Clad Figures Teetering On Absurd Family Edges

A diverse collection of contemporary and vintage visual art, illustrations, posters, and provocative campaigns spanning pop culture, horror, urban, and political themes.
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fromsf.funcheap.com
3 days ago

San Francisco's Slavic Festival (2026)

SF Sketchfest 2026 (Final Day) $30* *Ticket prices vary based on show. Tickets start from $30 All Day 2026 Hearts in San Francisco at the Ferry Building (Jan. 24 Feb. 11) FREE 10:00 am Asian Art Museum: Free Admission Day (Every First Sunday) FREE* *Special exhibitions may require separate admission surcharge 10:00 am 2026 White Elephant Sale in 90,000+ Sq Ft. Warehouse (Jan. 25 Feb. 21) $7 10:00 am
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

What links the basilisk lizard and the fishing spider? The Saturday quiz

1 Rodney King beating. 2 Boreal forest (taiga). 3 Named storm in the UK. 4 Dr Faustus (Marlowe play). 5 Floella Benjamin. 6 Gentlemen v Players. 7 RNLI. 8 Classical music. 9 Plots against Elizabeth I. 10 Ways of having your steak in France. 11 Animals that can walk on water. 12 Birth states of US presidents. 13 Scales used to measure natural phenomena: tornadoes; earthquakes; hurricanes; hazard from near-Earth objects.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

World Sports Photography Awards 2026 winners revealed in pictures

World Sports Photography awards received 4,120+ photographers from 123 countries submitting 23,130 images across 24 categories; 'Equine Reflection' won the Equestrian Gold Award.
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

San Francisco's Tech Billionaires Don't Care About Your Art School

Citing CCA's long-standing financial struggles, including "demographic shifts and a persistent structural deficit," CCA President David C. Howse called the plan "a decisive act of stewardship." Deficits? How can this be? San Francisco is dense with millionaires. It frequently boasts the highest number of billionaires anywhere. How does one of the wealthiest cities in the world lose its last and oldest progressive art school? Intentionally.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 days ago

In the age of AI, can art expertise be digitised?

Recently, AI decided that a painting long thought to be a copy of Caravaggio's The Lute Player is actually by the master, while another version of the same subject, previously thought to be authentic, is not. Both conclusions were disputed by the former Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. A similar debate erupted in March 2025 when AI declared that portions of The Bath of Diana, also long believed to be a copy, could have been painted by Peter Paul Rubens.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 days ago

San Francisco museum rejects permanent space in favour of site-specific exhibitions

Two site-responsive installations—Lily Kwong's seed-embedded EARTHSEED DOME and Tara Donovan's recycled-CD columns—activate Redwood Park and the Transamerica Pyramid Center through public fabrication and seasonal change.
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

Met Museum Workers Are Officially Unionized

Metropolitan Museum of Art staff formed a union under UAW Local 2110 representing workers across 50 departments after an NLRB election.
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fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

A Very 2026 Art Reading List

Art world highlights for 2026 include forthcoming art books, major grants to artists, museum programming experiments, and renewed focus on cultural repatriation and exhibitions.
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fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

What to See During San Francisco Art Week

San Francisco's art scene shrinks institutionally but shows resilience through alternative spaces, home galleries, nonprofits, and adaptive artists and curators.
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fromDesign Milk
3 days ago

In the Middle of Miami Art Week, a Desert Oasis Awaited

OASIS at Alcova by Casa AnKan created a desert-modernism sanctuary prioritizing tactile materiality, stillness, collectible design, and sustainable craftsmanship during Art Basel Miami.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 days ago

Amoako Boafo solo exhibition to open in Venice during 2026 Biennale

Drawing inspiration from the Renaissance atmosphere of Palazzo Grimani, Boafo turns his gaze to the rich Venetian portrait tradition. The artist is creating a series of new works specifically for the exhibition, directly referencing this historical context and the unique architecture of the palace.
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fromJuxtapoz
6 days ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Cato's Last Weekend @ Saatchi Yates, London

Toby Grant (Cato) paints vibrant, collage-based portraits celebrating everyday Black South London life, emphasizing gesture, community, and aspirational narratives.
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fromAnOther
3 days ago

Nat Faulkner's New Exhibition Revels in the Alchemy of Photography

Nat Faulkner’s work explores visible and imperceptible transformations through photography and sculpture, using light, chemical processes, and metallic materials to evoke temporal change.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 days ago

Bayeux tapestry at risk from British Museum vanity project', expert says

Experts warn the Bayeux Tapestry is too fragile to risk transporting from Normandy to the British Museum because movement and environmental changes could cause irreplaceable damage.
fromBustle
3 days ago

Exclusive: The Stars Of 'Oedipus' On Playing One Of Theater's Most Tragic Couples

, the hit play at Studio 54, is writer and director Robert Ickes' modern - and riveting - version of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Since that play was written around 425 B.C., I'm not spilling the beans by telling you it's about the King of Thebes (Oedipus) who unknowingly fulfills his destiny by killing his father and marrying his mother. When he discovers what he has done - what he can never "unsee" - he gouges out his eyes.
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fromwww.london-unattached.com
3 days ago

Akram Khan's Giselle

Created for the company in 2016, Kahn's Giselle is imbued with inventiveness (this is a daring, dystopian dance-drama like no other), integrity (in the way themes are transposed from the nineteenth-century Romantic-era classic to this reimagining) and impressiveness (the level of commitment from the dancers, whose embodiment makes the work a formidable entity, is outstanding). You can't just watch it. You exist inside it, breathe it in, let it get under your skin.
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fromIndependent
3 days ago

Dublin Lord of the Dance show in 'grave danger of falling apart' over injunction preventing Michael Flatley from participating, court hears

An upcoming Lord of the Dance show faces collapse because an injunction seeks to prevent Michael Flatley from performing, jeopardising the production's finances.
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fromFuncheap
3 days ago

Zindabaddies Improv at SF Sketchfest

SF Sketchfest features Zindabaddies, an all-South Asian improv group performing interview-inspired montages with Parvesh Cheena, Nikhil Deshpande, Pallavi Gunalan, Ru Kazi, and Dhruv Uday Singh.
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fromArtforum
5 days ago

Warhol Foundation Names Fall 2025 Grantees

The Andy Warhol Foundation will award over $4 million to fifty-seven visual arts organizations, prioritizing small and midsize institutions and new grantees.
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fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

'Starfleet Academy' interrogates the values at the center of 'Star Trek' itself

Starfleet Academy is a 32nd-century series about a mobile Academy-starship rebuilding the Federation after the Burn, featuring action and Holly Hunter as chancellor.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 days ago

Kochi Biennale co-founder Bose Krishnamachari steps down as president

After 13 years leading the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India, the artist and curator Bose Krishnamachari will step down from his roles as president of the Kochi Biennale Foundation and member of its board of trustees. In a statement, Krishnamachari cited "pressing family reasons" for his decision. His departure is not expected to impact the sixth edition of the biennial, For the Time Being, which opened last month and will run as scheduled until 31 March.
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fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Christina Sharpe's Appeal to South Africa

South Africa's Arts Minister canceled Gabrielle Goliath's Venice Biennale pavilion, a decision criticized as censorship that contradicts the government's international stance on Israel.
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fromColossal
4 days ago

A Short Documentary Celebrates the Community that Rallied Around 'Rick on the Roof'

A man in Barry lived on his rooftop for over two years in protest, inspiring neighbors to support him and forming lasting community bonds.
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