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Ron English Billboards
I watched a documentary on the contemporary pop artist Ron English recently. He is probably most famous for defacing public billboards in America. He covers legitimate advertisements on prominent...
View ArticleElif Shafak on Trial in Turkey
The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak will face charges of “insulting the Turkish identity” this week in Istanbul. Just a week ago the British artist Michael Dickinson was charged with “insulting the...
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Banksy Mania
Jonathon Jones of the Guardian has wrote a piece on the hottest artist in Britain at the moment. Best of British? “Banksy is a comic artist, as opposed to the tragedians who try to impress with their...
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Doll Face Short Film by Andy Huang
I found this fascinating little short film on Jafabrit’s blog. It’s by Andy Huang and is called “Doll Face”. I have been thinking lots about society and how we trudge through life, aspiring to be like...
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Banksy at Auction
I have spent hours browsing through auction catalogues online today. I spend hours every month going through them, like I’m a billionaire art collector looking for prey, yet I have never spent more...
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Banksy – One Nation Under CCTV
“One Nation Under CCTV” is painted on a wall in central London, which seems to be the CCTV camera capital of the world. It shows a young boy up a ladder painting the words, with a security guard and a...
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Conspiracy Theory Art
I love troublemakers. I used to think all artists were troublemakers by nature but the more artists I met, the more I saw that we’re conformist sellouts just like those in finance, politics and big...
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Richard Renaldi’s Touching Strangers
I really like the idea behind these photographs by Richard Renaldi. He places complete strangers together, usually from very different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. His first intentions may...
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Abby Martin and Peter Joseph of the Zeitgeist Movement
I don’t support ANY movement or organization anywhere, but I do love troublemakers that poke sticks at hornets’ nests. Abby Martin of RT (Breaking the Set) recently spoke with the Zeitgeist movement’s...
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Pepper Spray Pig Awarded $38,000
Remember pepper spray pig John Pike who casually sprayed peaceful protestors of the occupy movement like they were cockroaches? He has been awarded $38,000 in worker’s compensation. The poor dear has...
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Satanic Baphomet Monument for Oklahoma City
As far as public monuments go, this is probably no more ridiculous than any other. If we can make ridiculous monuments to more mainstream religions, to political figures, or to glorify senseless wars,...
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Solar Roads
What do roads have to do with art? Not much and I don’t really care as this is such a FREAKIN’ good idea!! In fact, I fear that it is so great of an idea that it will never get off the ground. You...
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Banksy Retrospective – Unauthorized of Course
Banksy The Unauthorised Retrospective in London opens today at Sotheby’s S|2 gallery. Steve Lazarides, Banksy’s agent up until 2008 has curated the exhibition which includes some of the artist’s...
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Painting Studio of Australian Artist Angony
I started posting artist studios about 5 years but then abandoned the blog. Seeing the painting studio of Australian artist Angony posted on his facebook page just recently made me think I should...
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