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• The life artistic: Wes Anderson-inspired works – in pictures

  06-08-2016 18:00
  
  On Halloween 2010, Spoke Art gallery in San Francisco put on a fancy dress opening night for a popup exhibition of art inspired by the films of Wes Anderson. “We opened the doors and found hundreds of fans wrapped around the block clamouring to get in,” says gallery owner Ken Harman, “We knew we were on to something special.” Since then, the gallery has put on yearly exhibitions of Wes Anderson-themed paintings, prints and sculptures. “There are so many elements of
  
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• Top Posts From Today’s AJBlogs 08.05.16

  06-08-2016 05:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Metropolitan Museum Boasts Record Attendance; Attributes Deficit, in Part, to Younger Demographics Is an increase in young visitors too much of a good thing? The Metropolitan Museum late yesterday issued an upbeat press release that painted a much rosier picture of attendance figures than my doom-and-gloom post… read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-08-05
  When We Allow Technology To Police Our Culture… Last year I was producing the live streaming of the Ojai M
  
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• The truth hurts – Harold Thomas wins award with Aboriginal art that is raw and real

  06-08-2016 00:12
  
  New work from the artist behind the Aboriginal flag takes out the 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in DarwinA baby is wrenched from its mother, mouth still suckling on her nipple. Pushed down into the dirt on her knees, with her face twisted in both anguish and rage, the woman bites down on the finger of a policeman who tries to restrain her, and grabs at another infant with her left hand. A boy sits in the red desert over a still body, with so much pain in
  
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• Fears over the future of a Keith Haring mural in New York

  06-08-2016 00:02
  
  Tenants due to be evicted from a building in the Morningside Heights area of Manhattan say they are worried about the fate of a mural Keith Haring painted across three floors of a stairwell in 1983 or 84. At that time, the former convent building was leased by the Catholic youth organisation Grace House, and Haring painted the mural in one evening, watched by some of the young people there attending a retreat. The artist had visited Grace House multiple times, DJed a party there and c
  
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