Topic: ART - on March 30, 2010 at 3:11:00 PM CEST
Banksy Releases Official Movie Poster For April 16th Film Premier
It was announced this morning that Banksy's first film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, will hit theaters in the United States beginning on Friday, April 16th in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Dates for additional cities across the country - including Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Atlanta - will be announced soon.
woostercollective.com Banksy Releases Additional Poster And Theater Info For US Film Release
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Topic: ART - on March 30, 2010 at 3:00:00 PM CEST
Weird graffiti: When street art goes random
After New Jersey's guerilla knitter outwitted the authorities with his weird wool-based graffiti antics, we have a look at some other sideways approaches to street art.
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Topic: ART - on March 6, 2010 at 2:12:00 PM CET
A Game of Tag Breaks Out Between London's Graffiti Elite
In the predawn hours of Christmas morning, a 40-year-old shoe repairman who goes by the name Robbo squeezed his 6-foot-8-inch frame into a wet suit, tossed some spray cans into a plastic bag, and crossed Regent's Canal on a red-and-blue air mattress.
Robbo, one of the lost pioneers of London's 1980s graffiti scene, was emerging from a long retirement. He had a mission: to settle a score with the world-famous street artist Banksy, who, Robbo believes, had attacked his legacy.
The battle centers on a wall under a bridge on the canal in London's Camden district. In the fall of 1985—just 15 years old but already a major player in London's graffiti scene—Robbo announced his presence on that wall with eight tall block letters: ROBBO INC.
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Topic: ART - on February 28, 2010 at 9:58:00 AM CET
A brief history of art
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Topic: ART - on February 27, 2010 at 1:41:00 PM CET
Staple Art of Baptiste Debombourg
Eindrucksvolle Arbeit des französischen Künstlers Baptiste Debombourg. 35,000 staples, placed over 75 hours.
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Topic: ART - on February 23, 2010 at 11:24:00 AM CET
Businessman to paint over Banksy artwork 'because he doesn't like art'
A DERELICT city centre building made famous by an urban graffiti artist sold at auction for almost £50,000 over the guide price.
The White House pub, on the corner of Berry Street, where Banksy painted a giant 30ft rat holding a marker pen, was bought for £114,000 yesterday.
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Topic: ART - on February 3, 2010 at 1:11:00 PM CET
Pratchett fordert Recht auf Sterbehilfe
Großbritannien debattiert zurzeit intensiv über das Thema Sterbehilfe. Der Grund sind zwei gegensätzliche Gerichtsurteile. In die Kontroverse pro und kontra Sterbehilfe hat sich jetzt eine berühmte Stimme eingeschaltet: der Bestsellerautor Terry Pratchett. Pratchett leidet selbst unter Alzheimer. In einer Ansprache in der BBC, die mittlerweile alle britischen Medien beschäftigt, plädiert er für einen Handschlag mit dem Tod - und ein Recht auf ein selbstbestimmtes Sterben.
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Topic: ART - on February 1, 2010 at 11:31:00 AM CET
Terry Pratchett ready to be test case for suicide law
Sir Terry Pratchett says he is ready to be a test case for assisted suicide "tribunals" which could give people legal permission to end their lives.
The author, who has Alzheimer's, says he wants a tribunal set up to help those with incurable diseases end their lives with help from doctors.
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Topic: ART - on January 29, 2010 at 2:18:00 PM CET
'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies
J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.
Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son, actor Matt Salinger, said in a statement from Salinger's longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Associates, Inc. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in a small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
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Topic: ART - on January 22, 2010 at 11:06:00 AM CET
Exit Through the Gift Shop, New Documentary on Banksy & Street Art Debuts at Sundance
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a new film debuting at the Sundance Film Festival that focuses on the mysterious British graffiti, conceptual and street artist Banksy.
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Topic: ART - on January 3, 2010 at 10:15:00 AM CET
Picasso, other art works stolen from French villa
Thieves have stolen about 30 paintings, including a work by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, from a private villa in the south of France, police said on Saturday.
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Topic: ART - on January 1, 2010 at 12:25:00 PM CET
MINI Cooper Shipping Boxes in Amsterdam
Ubachswisbrun/JWT produced a guerilla ad campaign featuring MINI Cooper shipping boxes on the streets of Amsterdam to promote the MINI Amsterdam financing program. I wonder if I could have one shipped using Amazon Prime.
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