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• Pigeons wearing lights illuminate New York's night sky – in pictures

  07-05-2016 16:29
  
  Artist Duke Riley released 2000 pigeons wearing LED lights into the night sky over Brooklyn. As he directed the birds with a flag and pole, they painted the sky with stunning light trails Continue reading...
  
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• Illma Gore: 'If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it's Trump'

  07-05-2016 13:00
  
  Artist whose painting of nude Trump went viral gives her account of being the target of his campaign’s hate machine and being physically attacked in LAArtist threatened with lawsuits if she sells nude Donald Trump paintingIt is said that art is not what you see, but what you make others see. When it comes to my nude painting of Donald Trump, some say I’ve made them see too much. But I believe the human body is the ultimate work of art. Related: Party of one? Trump seizes Republican r
  
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• No show for the 14th Factory art spectacle on Wall Street (for now)

  07-05-2016 10:58
  
  One of the most spectacular art installations planned for New York, a project known as the 14th Factory, was due to launch later this month at 23 Wall Street, the lavish former HQ of JP Morgan & Company. The seven-storey extravaganza would have featured works by more than 30 artists, but the spectacle never got off the ground because there were “all sorts of hurdles to get the project moving”, says the man behind the venture, Hong Kong-based artist Simon Birch. He raised more th
  
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