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JR’s Digital Mural Features 1,200 San Franciscans, Telling a Story of a Diverse City

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 8, 2019July 9, 2019

The artist says he wants the 107-feet-long mural at SFMOMA to get people to interact with one another.

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Carl Pope Returns from His Hiatus with His Largest Installation Ever

by Phillip Barcio November 26, 2018November 28, 2018

After four years away from the art scene the artist returns with work that maps the visual language of contemporary blackness through 108 letterpress posters in the most important installation in the US right now.

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Faces Places, a New Film by Unlikely Duo Agnès Varda and JR

by Cohen Media October 6, 2017

The legendary filmmaker and street artist travel through rural France and meditate on the value of art and the imagination.

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Agnès Varda and JR Take a Trippy, Twee Road Trip

by Tanner Tafelski September 27, 2017September 28, 2017

Faces Places is a kind of road movie in which two artists who are electric on screen, one 34 years old and the other 88, stop at villages to talk to and take photos of people in the French provinces.

The Vivo à Beira boat, with JR's work on its sail, on July 24 (photo courtesy JR)
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A Project by JR Sets Sail, Literally

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton August 8, 2017August 8, 2017

A work by the street artist and photographer will serve as the sail of a 60-foot yacht when it races from France to Brazil in November.

Posted inArt

Seeing Art in the Shadow of Qatar’s Extreme Wealth

by Jay Merrick April 13, 2017April 12, 2017

A trip to three headline exhibitions in Doha suggests a culture pulled between global and local priorities.

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We Gave Medals to the Best Art at the Rio Olympics

by Claire Voon August 11, 2016August 11, 2016

They’re all about sports, but that doesn’t mean the 2016 Rio Olympics have no room for art.

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JR’s Photoshop Trompe l’Oeil at the Louvre

by Zachary Fine June 24, 2016June 26, 2016

PARIS — We have long loved our illusions.

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A Public Art Reflection on #BlackLivesMatter in Baltimore

by Laura C. Mallonee June 25, 2015June 25, 2015

Inhabitants of Baltimore this week are being confronted by the faces of 42 black artists and activists staring out at them from the city’s walls.

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The Tribeca Film Festival’s Short Forays into Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 21, 2015April 21, 2015

The art-centric short films at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival include two documentaries about very unusual artists, an enigmatic science-fiction drama, and a ballet set in a Parisian housing project.

Posted inIn Brief

Boat Bearing JR Artwork Rescues Drifting Migrants

by Laura C. Mallonee December 19, 2014December 23, 2014

Sometimes art and life converge in miraculous ways. That happened last week in the Mediterranean, where drifting migrants were rescued by a cargo ship plastered with an image by French artist JR, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Portraits from Ellis Island’s Abandoned Immigrant Hospital

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 9, 2014December 19, 2014

The Ellis Island hospital, which treated 1.2 million immigrant patients between 1901 and its abandonment in 1954, is once again open to the public. In conjunction with the reopening, the French street artist JR has installed paste ups of archival photographs throughout the building that give a historic, human context to the decrepit space.

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