“Where is My Vote?” Street Art Emerges in Tehran (photo)

June 17, 2009

Unlike the traditional fine arts, street art has proven to be the front line of aesthetic response to any hot button issue. Case in point above.

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1 Leah Borromeo June 19, 2009 at 4:10 am: More photos, comment, etc on this here:
http://fryingpanfireblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/images-for-a-new-age-tehran-street-art/

and here:

http://fryingpanfireblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/turban-warfare-tehran-street-art-pt-2/

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