Last week, the Brazilian street art twins, Os Gemeos, unveiled their new mural on Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway at Dewey Square and Fox Boston couldn’t resist suggesting the work portrayed some sort of controversial figure and like moths to a flame the xenophobes and anti-Muslim bigots came running.
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Does Lacoste Hate Palestinians?
A controversy is brewing in Switzerland, where French luxury label Lacoste has attempted to strong arm a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, to exclude Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour from the Lacoste Elysée Prize.
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Arizona School Demands Black/Latino Faces On Mural Be Whitened
The Arizona Republic reports, “A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school. The project’s leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children’s ethnicity.”
