Hrag Vartanian

…the short answer is, because they are being championed by emotionally-confused dolts who refuse to adapt and prefer to pine about the loss. This from today’s AP story about the new $100,000 handmade book about Renaissance master Michelangelo:
“Books are being destroyed by the Internet, they’re losing their identity — it’s the modern, Internet version of [...]

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This is a brilliant series of meta-street art pieces that critique and enliven the works they target, whether in New York, Berlin.
Here is the whole set of “Buy My Street Art” works via Mr. Talion. There is also a really interesting series called “Cut & Go.”
(I discovered these via rebel:art.)

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Everyone wants a piece of Poster Boy, it’s kind of funny and boy does he know how to play it.
The latest is an artistic & textual collaboration with Public Ad Campaign…here’s the Q&A:
Q-Why do you Attack advertising?
A-”Advertising” struck first. By preying on people’s insecurities the advertising industry has been coaxing me, and countless others, on [...]

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This via The Brussels Journal (all bolds mine) and titled “Europe’s Multiculturalists: Reaching for the Marmalade Skies:”
…In the last few days the European headquarters of the United Nations has unveiled its new ceiling, decorated by Miquel Barceló, and funded to the tune of 20 million Euros by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. It [...]

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