Hrag Vartanian

Some good news. I enjoyed my time at PBS’ Art21 blog so much that I’m joining their team of bloggers.
I will be submitting weekly posts and you can check out my first post (mostly photos) here…it takes a look at the Art in Odd Places festival in New York that’s going on until the end [...]

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Some great new urban typography via Mr Kohoutek–who just joined Flickr from what I can tell. This series dates from 2006 and he also tried this out in Paris & Birmhingham (UK).

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Part of the “Party Headquarters: Voting is Just the Beginning” exhibition at Pratt Manhattan (more images here).

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The original is Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Ballerina” (1874) at the National Gallery of Art in DC.
Via Jake Dobkin’s Flickrstream

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Breakneck Steps, Quebec City (c.1870)
I remember walking down these steps, which look different today, during a grade school (or elementary school, as we say in Canada) trip with my French immersion class.
They were called L’Escalier Casse-Cou (Breakneck Steps in English). We got a big kick out of the name of these strange stairs as kids [...]

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