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FNNCH & THE ADVENTURES AND PERILS OF A HONEY BEAR HUNT
One would think a Honey Bear, resembling the classic plastic squeezable honey container with a spout cap lid one finds in any grocery store, would be anything but controversial, but artist Fnnch recently found his work at the center of an outcry. Discover the triumphs and confrontations of an artist and his Honey Bear in the streets of San Francisco during the time of Covid.
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Addicted to the Art: Tarbox
Houston-based street artist Tarbox comes clean about living through heroin addiction and how he found salvation through street art.
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Weaponization of Coby Kennedy’s Parallel Consequential World: Jimmy Crow and the Imaginary Thug
Coby Kennedy’s Jimmy Crow and the Imaginary Thug, on view at Superchief Gallery NY, takes the tenets of Afrofuturism to its most imaginative and sublime extreme through Kennedy’s parallel world. Kennedy makes clear that continually residing in our current racist society leads to the need for a violent and complete revolution.
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Animals, Boarded Windows, and Colombia: The ABCs of Calicho
During one of the most intense summers of NYC, artists emerged at the forefront of the BLM Movement, among them Calicho Arevalo. Read on to find out more about Calicho’s beginnings as an artist and how he felt to be part of something bigger.
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Individual Activist: Artivism at Home & Abroad
A profile on seasoned social justice figure IndividualActivist. Emma interviews IA about her activism in China and her perspectives on a changing political landscape.
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AL DIAZ: 4 THE CREATIVELY DEFIANT
A profile by Kurt McVey of the legendary Al Diaz, covering his upbringing, his art, and his relationship with Basquiat.
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Yehimi Cambrón & The Joy Of Resilience: Monuments, Migration and Monarch Butterflies
Yehimi Cambrón is an artist, activist, and public speaker from Michoacán, Mexico who immigrated to Atlanta. She is undocumented and uses her art to showcase the humanity of immigration as well as the intersectionality within it.
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DISTRIBUTORS
List of past & present UP Magazine distributors. For information & inquires, email upmagstaff@gmail.com
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Bushwick Art Club: Marzipan Physics
The second in the Bushwick Art Club Series 1 – a collaborative project between UP Magazine & the Bushwick Daily. Signed prints available for sale.
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Buenos Aires: Bardo, Ilka, and the Beauty of the City
London-based writer Candelaria Barandiaran talks to a group of emerging female artists from her homeland of Argentina, in an attempt to reconnect with her roots and Buenos Aires’ wonderful culture.
