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INSTIGATOR
Art & Culture magazine
NEWS
PHOTO / A back woman sits on a DC metro on ' July 2026, on America's 250th birthday / Photo © courtesy of Reuters
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USA 250
WASHINGTON
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
HISTORY NEVER STOPS
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A devastating image appeared in the news today. In Washington DC, on 4 July 2026, a Reuters photographer captured on the day of America's 250th birthday a calm, lone, black woman sitting on a DC metro, surrounded by masked white nationalists who stood around her en route to their big March.
The picture perfectly captures the mood of today’s America, a powerful visual representation of racial tension and political division in the US. Discrimination, segregation, and hatred, that have barely changed since Rosa Parks.
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama (USA). Instead of going to the back of the bus, designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, they started to complain, and the bus driver asked Parks to move to the back seats. She refused.
We should all refuse.
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Discrimination during USA 250
Washington, DC (USA)
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PHOTO / Michelangelo's Davide / Photo © Wikipedia
unsuitable
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ONLY
IN AMERICA
TALLAHASSEE
CLASSICAL SCHOOL
FLORIDA
MICHECHANGELO'S DAVID
DOES NOT WORK WELL
IN TALLAHASSEE
Should Michelangelo’s masterpiece be destroyed? Should it be put in a warehouse, or covered with black plastic with hundreds of other artworks?
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The Headline:
Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo sculpted David from marble (1504), showing the statue in full nudity. In Florida (USA) Tallahassee Classical School's principal resigns her position after parents complained when sixth-grade students were shown a photo of Michelangelo's David during an art history class.
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The parents considered the sculpture “pornographic”, and said that their children were “exposed” to such scandalous art without a permission. It is absurd, but apparently not in Florida.
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Ms Hope Carrasquilla offered her resignation to the Tallahassee Classical School's board after parents alleged the images of one of the most famous and celebrated statues in the world were "pornographic" and "unsuitable" for the school.
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"It saddens me that my time here had to end this way," Carrasquilla told local paper Tallahassee Democrat.
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School board chair Barney Bishop told CBS News Saturday that Ms Carrasquilla was asked to resign over "a number of other issues,'' and “the latest incident was just the culmination.”
In addition, the school issued an official statement: "We will follow our policy and notify our parents in advance so they can make their own decision if it is age appropriate for their child."
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What? So written notification is required to look at art? Do parents decide now what to teach in schools? Do political parties always have to interfere? (In July 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law, the Parental Rights in Education Bill. to give parents more control over what their children can learn at school.)
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Bishop made another hilarious comment: “We don’t have any problem showing ‘David', but showing the entire statue might not be appropriate.” “You don’t have to show the whole statue!" He added "Maybe we only show the head. You can show the hands, the arms, the muscles, the beautiful work Michelangelo did in marble, without showing the whole ‘thing’.”
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IRAN
WOMAN
LIFE
FREEDOM
WOMAN
LIFE
FREEDOM
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JIN JIYAN AZADÎ
ژن، ژیان، ئازادی)
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The first use of the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom" goes back to a series of protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, in September 2022, who was arrested for breaking hijab laws. It was first chanted at Amini's funeral in Saqqez, then in the capital of Kurdistan. Following the Iranian protests, many cities throughout the world stepped up for the cause.
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The subject is so serious and crucial that we shall be continuing the article with direct talks with Iranian women from all around the world: photographer, activist Shirin Neshat.
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Why women cut their hair to support protesters in Iran?
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Photo © New York Times
PHOTO / Iranian woman by Shirin Neshat / Photo © courtesy of Shirin Neshat
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US ELECTION 2028
WILL ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE TAKE OVER?
USA
AI FOR ELECTION
For thousands of years, we humans have lived inside the dreams of other humans. We have worshiped Gods, pursued ideals of beauty and dedicated our lives to causes that originated in the imagination of some prophets, poets and politicians.
By 2028, the U.S. presidential race might no longer be run by humans. Humans often don’t have direct access to reality.
We are investigating the subject for our next article.
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