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Artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.” For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations.
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Millennium park, Chicago
It’s always a little disorienting when the faces get replaced by this river.
This Rosa Parks statue was just unveiled at the Capitol. She is the first black woman to have a statue there.
Go Rosa!
The National Mall got a new memorial yesterday, if only briefly. As part of One Billion Rising, Baltimore-based feminist group FORCE installed a temporary memorial recognizing survivors of sexual assault. The group greated giant letters out of a statement from a rape survivor and floated the eight-foot-tall words onto the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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A bright video screen shows images of blue sky on Tiananmen Square during a time of dangerous levels of air pollution, on January 23, 2013 in Beijing. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
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As a mantra, I kept repeating to myself, “These Rodin sculptures are outdoors, exposed to the weather, pollution, and the merciless bowel movements of mid-Wilshire birds … They were cast in the late 1960s or early 1970s … Liz knows what she is doing … ” But still.
Casting Call: [de]-lusions of Grandeur, a Performance Project by Liz Glynn « Unframed The LACMA Blog
Come to LACMA this weekend to see Liz Glynn’s performance! And don’t miss Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, which also features some of Glynn’s work.
Watch a Beautiful Street Art Mural by ZED1 Decompose