Be it to protest injustice or to preserve history and culture, art has been used for centuries to make an impact. Most times it does.
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A projected ape pursuing an aircraft on the work ‘Gallery Invasion’ during a preview of the show ‘Skullmapping, Projected Art’ in Berlin, Germany. — Reuters/AFP
A homeless man exiting a shower cubicle after washing up in a wash bus, South Africa’s first mobile wash service for the homeless in Cape Town;
A poster displaying anti-monarchy street art in South London.
Patina artist applying metallic paint on a resin casting bust of Marie-Antoinette in Paris;
A woman taking pictures of the public art installation titled ‘Inside Out: Habour and the City’ by the French artist JR, in Hong Kong.
A view of a mural painted by the duo Fabio Lopez Gonzalo and Elodie Arshak on a facade of the ‘Pyramid’, the emblematic tower in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Brazilian chief curator of the Rio Art Museum, Marcelo Campos, posing next to paintings of O Bastardo before the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition at the museum in Rio de Janeiro.
