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See French Street Art Star JR’s Enormous New High Line Mural
Though the French street artist JR has been all over lately — most recently in Cuba as part of the Havana Biennial — he was back in his adoptive hometown recently to plaster a building-sized...
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Koons, Calle, JR, and More Design Deluxe Dinnerware for Bernardaud’s 150th...
To marks its sesquicentennial, the French manufacturer of high-end luxury porcelain dinnerware Bernardaud commissioned a group of contemporary artists including Jeff Koons, Sophie Calle, JR and Prune...
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JR Created a Series of Photo-Murals at New York’s Rikers Island Jail
The French, Brooklyn-based street artist JR visited Rikers Island recently, not because his prolific pasting of photo murals got him in trouble with the NYPD, but to create a series of site-specific...
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See Street Artist JR’s Anniversary Photograph of Celebrity Collectors Swizz...
Wednesday, if the above photograph by the France-born, Brooklyn-based street artist JR that both Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys tweeted this morning, is the musician and art collector power couple’s...
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JR Is Wrapping Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center in a Massive Photo Mural
In preparation for his first solo show at a U.S. museum, opening at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati on Saturday, the French street artist JR is wrapping the façade of the institution’s Zaha...
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Chrysler Museum Acquires Original “Mad Men” Painting by Neglected Pop Artist...
“Munchkins, I, II, & III,” 1964 A monumental work by long overlooked pop artist Idelle Weber has been acquired by the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. The 17-foot-long painting, titled...
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Invader Lands on the High Line
Last we heard from France’s surreptitious mosaic-maker Invader, he was back in Paris after his New York sojourn — which came complete with an NYPD sleepover — but he was either back in the Big Apple...
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Instagrams of the Art World: Simmons, “Krugier,” and Wall-Painting with Pawel
Artist Laurie Simmons, whose show “Kigurumi, Dollers, and How We See” opens at Salon 94 on March 7, showed some cross-disciplinary love when she posted this recent work noting that it was inspired by...
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Help Pay For Agnes Varda and JR’s Road Trip
Filmmaker Agnès Varda and the artist known simply as JR are looking to hit the road together and they want you to help pay for gas. The duo have launched a crowd-funding campaign via Kiss Kiss Bank...
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Instagrams of the Art World: Garage Museum Opens, Post #BOS, and More
Moscow’s new Garage Museum opened with a bang! Klaus Biesenbach (@klausbiesenbach) was there to catch Rirkrit Tiravanija’s black square fireworks… which were popularly mistaken for birds. Derek...
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