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Fine art, writ large: Billboards become gallery space
“Window,” a photograph by L.A. artist Susanna Battin, appeared on a San Bernardino County billboard in December.Photo: Susanna BattinIf you drove down I-15 in San Bernardino County, Calif., outside of Corona, last Friday, you may have noticed a giant, digital billboard exclaiming, “WE BUY USED GUNS.” But if you’d looked at the same sign from […]
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Street-art film fest! Reverse graffiti, urban archaeology, and other writings on the wall
The walls of our cities are becoming canvases for creative expression in the hands of a new generation of artists. These kids are street-smart and engaged. (And, OK, they’re not all kids.) They work, on some levels, in the same spirit as Occupy Wall Street, reclaiming and transforming the urban landscape, and infusing their art with […]
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Pasadena gets to keep its giant fork
This piece of guerilla art was originally put up as a joke — Pasadena, Calif. resident Bob Stane made a lot of corny jokes about putting a fork in the road at this fork in the road, so his friend made him an 18-foot-tall one for his 75th birthday. It wasn't technically legal (the fork's […]
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Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman on Food Rules [VIDEO]
The latest, expanded edition of Michael Pollan’s book Food Rules has been brought to life by the illustrations of artist Maira Kalman. Pollan told Sarah Henry in a recent interview: I wanted to work on a more visual version of Food Rules to reach more people and continue the conversation that the first edition started. My wife and […]
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Dr. Dirt: Street artist scrubs images into the urban landscape
Photo: c/o MooseStreet artist Moose Benjamin Curtis was having some difficulty with the police. The officers had just arrested him for creating designs on a wall in South London. But it was complicated — as things often are when Moose is involved. You see, Moose doesn’t use spray paint or wallpaper paste — the usual […]
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Can the arts save struggling cities?
Something is stirring in Detroit. Here, in a city that in the past decade alone lost a quarter of its already dwindling population, plans are in the works to revive the manufacturing economy — at least on a small scale. The Detroit FAB Lab taps into the vibe of “maker” labs and hackerspaces around the […]
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Underwater homes: A visual guide to NYC's future floods
A New York City artist brings climate change home by mapping the coming floods and drawing them on the actual cityscape.
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Fighting climate change in the Navajo Nation
A physician-turned-street-artist takes an urban art form to a landscape where most of the walls are eons-old stone.
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Street artists see the city as their canvas
The artist Gaia is part of a young generation using art to revitalize cities, engage residents, and connect to the past.
