In an attempt to show the faces of the New Yorkers and tourists who swiftly move through Times Square at an unrelenting 24-hour pace, French street artist JR has set up a photo booth right in its center. Inside Out New York City, which started last night as part of the Times Square Arts public arts program, is a continuation of JR’s Inside Out Project, where the faces of the people who live in a place are made visible on its structure.
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Thanks to the efforts of organizations such as Primary Flight and Wynwood Walls, the Wynwood district in Miami is undergoing a radical transformation through art.
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The recent case of the dictator Sultan of Brunei brother’s sex sculptures makes us wonder why the member of southeast Asia royalty didn’t just commission Jeff Koons, who knows a thing or two, three, maybe ten, about sex sculptures. I can’t believe I’m going to write this but Koons looks almost tasteful in comparison.
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By now, we all know that the 2008 Obama Presidential campaign was a great leap forward for the aesthetics of US election campaign, so it should come as no surprise that the director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, decided to publish a book about the innovative Obama design brand and its impact on American pop and design cultures. The resulting book, titled Designing Obama: A Chronicle of Art & Design from the 2008 Presidential Campaign, is an attractive product that includes a short foreward by Pentagram partner Michael Bierut and an introduction by graphic design guru Steven Heller, who cleverly calls the brand “O Design.”
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Robert DeNiro, Jr. won an ownership dispute over six works of art by his father Robert DeNiro, Sr. The infamous Salander-O’Reilly Galleries LLC had contested his claims on the artwork but a bankruptcy judge found in favor of DeNiro, Jr. The DeNiros were only two of the hundreds of people involved in a major scandal which lead to Salander-O’Reilly to declare bankruptcy in 2007.
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