“When the project ended, the media attention dissipated, the students returned to their regularly scheduled high school programming, and after a couple additional days during which he painted two more murals at Rush University Medical Center, Haring went home to New York. The Grant Park mural stood for about a week before it was dismantled—and that was the last time it was ever displayed in its entirety.”
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And Now We Have… Graffiti Painted By Drones (For Those Hard-To-Get-To Places)
“KATSU, a well-known graffiti artist and vandal, used a hacked Phantom drone to paint a giant red scribble across Kendall Jenner’s face on one of New York City’s largest and most viewed billboards. By all accounts, it is the first time that a drone has been deployed for a major act of public vandalism.”
Finally, A Step In The Right Direction! This Ballet Company Is Returning To Live Music For All Performances
“It’s the news that dance and music fans have awaited for decades: For the first time in more than 20 years, every major Orlando Ballet performance next season will be accompanied by a live orchestra.”
Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘Library of Babel’ Is Now a Real Website
“The Library, subject of a 1941 Borges story by the same name, contains all possible combinations of letters, and is tended to by melancholy Librarians trying in vain to locate meaning within the nonsense. … If that sounds like a less-than-appealing place to spend your time – not to mention a logically impossible one – keep your rational, unfevered brain away from libraryofbabel.info, where Brooklyn-based writer and coder Jonathan Basile has set out to bring Borges’ dream/nightmare to life.”
25 Years After They Were Executed, The Ceausescus Have Become One Of Romania’s Biggest Tourist Draws
See their lavish living quarters! See the People’s Palace, their enormous, garish pile of a public building that can be seen from space! See the spot where they were shot to death!
The Main Problems With This Plan About Giving Ebooks To Poor Kids
“Publishers aren’t giving kids a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of free books. They’re free e-books. Which require two things: A good Internet connection — at least at school if not at home — and some sort of device to read them. And that’s a challenge.”
Why Are We In Such A Rush To Declare The Anthropocene A Reality?
“he Anthropocene is a neologism that attempts to pin down a lot of free-floating anxiety about climate change and the myriad ways that Homo sapiens are making over the planet in our own image. It styles humans as a geological force, as powerful as any ‘natural’ one.”
Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Fires Artistic Director, Eliminates His Position
The board chairman said in a statement, “Lyric Opera of Kansas City is reorganizing along the lines of standard industry structure for the purpose of improved effectiveness and efficiency in our operation and has eliminated the position of artistic director. Lyric Opera of Kansas City today announces the departure of Artistic Director Ward Holmquist. We thank him for his years of service.”
What Michelle Obama Said At The Opening Of The New Whitney Museum
“I guarantee you right now there are kids living less than a mile from here who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum. And growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself. I know the feeling of not belonging in a place like this.”
Salman Rushdie Vs. Francine Prose – Chapter 459 Of The Charlie Hebdo Wars
Rushdie: “Our fellow artists were murdered for their ideas and you won’t stand up for them … I hope that our long alliance can survive this. But I fear some old friendships will break on this wheel.”