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Christine Ro

Christine Ro writes about culture and other topics from London. She's relentlessly lowbrow.

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A Training Program for Refugees to Work in the Arts

by Christine Ro March 16, 2020March 13, 2020

Sama for All, founded by Souad Nanaa, is a nonprofit that trains displaced people for employment in French museums and cultural organizations.

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The Challenges of Displaying Manga in a Museum Context

by Christine Ro August 1, 2019

Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the exhibition’s generic name, in trying to be everything to everyone, it’s hard for Manga to satisfy anyone.

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Dazzlingly Morbid, Hand-Painted Film Posters from 1980s Ghana

by Christine Ro March 19, 2019March 19, 2019

The often surreal or disturbing posters were commissioned by mobile video clubs to advertise roving screenings.

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350 Anti-Oil Protestors Take Over British Museum in Its Largest Protest Ever

by Christine Ro February 19, 2019

On February 16, for a protest organized by BP or not BP?, over 350 activists gathered to urge the British Museum to cut financial ties with British oil company BP.

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A Potent, Personal Comic on Women’s Work and Anger

by Christine Ro February 12, 2019February 12, 2019

In This Woman’s Work, Julie Delporte reflects on the limitations of being a woman.

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Best of 2018: The Top 10 Graphic Novels

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Dan Schindel, Dominic Umile, Megan N. Liberty, Christine Ro and Elisa Wouk Almino December 13, 2018November 11, 2019

Here are some of the most innovative graphic novels this year, selected by Dan Schindel and other Hyperallergic reviewers.

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Stark and Moving Illustrations of Refugee Journeys

by Christine Ro November 21, 2018November 21, 2018

Journeys Drawn: Illustration from the Refugee Crisis tells the stories of some of the estimated 68.5 million people who have been forcibly displaced worldwide.

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A BP Oil Protest Spills Through the British Museum’s Protest Exhibition

by Christine Ro October 29, 2018October 30, 2018

BP or not BP? gathered in opposition of oil giant BP’s financial stake at the British Museum, accusing the company of bolstering its political positioning through its arts investments.

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A Photographer Focuses on Transhumanism

by Christine Ro September 3, 2018March 12, 2019

Showcasing transformational changes in the ways we view our bodies and the possibilities for hybridizing them, Matthieu Gasfou’s H+: Transhumanism(s) is both a historical document and a possible warning for the future.

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A Harrowing Memoir Illustrates Modern-Day Slavery on Sea and Land

by Christine Ro May 21, 2018

A testimony of human rights abuses occurring in Southeast Asia is charted in The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery.

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Picture Yourself at the Museum of Selfies

by Christine Ro March 30, 2018

Selfies — which have been critiqued as symbols of narcissism and celebrated as examples of defiant self-representation — are now receiving the museum treatment.

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The Mesmerizing Mundane Objects of Ordinary North Korean Life

by Christine Ro March 15, 2018March 16, 2018

With North Korea so often discussed only in terms of extremes, this exhibit’s focus on the mundane is what makes it so fascinating.

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