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• The Daily Report

  Independent Lens Community Cinema screening tonight

  Nick Lalla | Tue, Sep 23rd, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Chicago | Tags: philadelphia, art, film, brett morgan, public activism, chicago 10 | 0

  Brett Morgan’s film Chicago 10 will be screened in Philadelphia tonight, followed by a public discussion of political activism in the city since 1968.

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• NAC News

  Make a Connection: NAC’s Limited Edition Program

  Diana Lind | Mon, Aug 25th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: art, politics, harvard gsd, psychogeography, neil freeman, map, united states, 2004 election, limited edition | 0

  What does it look like when you connect more than 3,000 American cities with one line? Nothing like the political maps you see on nytimes.com — but probably something like Identically Named Places Connected (USA) .

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• The Daily Report

  Painting the Town Pink

  Next American City | Mon, Aug 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, kat kondracki, art, adrian kondratowicz, trash, catherine kolnaski magnet school, garbage bags, renee mlynaryk, garbage | 1

  Artist Adrian Kondratowicz gives the standard trash bag a makeover. The bags raise environmental awareness but also cost a pretty penny. Fashionable or for real?

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• The Daily Report

  Mexican Photographers Document Their “World In Transition”

  Next American City | Wed, Jul 30th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Tucson | Tags: art, mexico, calista condo, tucson museum of art | 0

  The Mexico that Americans overlook is ever so evident in Mexican photography. With the utmost artistic quality Mexican photographers have documented their country’s social, cultural and political issues. Mexican Photographers Today: Facing a World of Transition, held at the Tucson Museum of Art, examines many aspects of Mexican life seen through the lens of 27 photographers who have lived it, giving the American viewer a chance to know Mexico as something other than a tourist destination.

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• The Daily Report

  Elusive Street Art Unites Urban Dwellers Online

  Brian Krier | Fri, Jun 6th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: blogging, internet, art, brian krier, banksy, artists, interaction, urban art, street art, streetsy, gothamist, jake dobkin | 0

  To some, the term “street art” is merely a glorification of vandalism, a common hallmark of urban blight. But for many others, street art is a legitimate form of expression and a vital component of the urban experience. Artists and enthusiasts share a common ground: the Internet, where street art takes on its most unifying and democratizing form.

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• The Daily Report

  Subconscious Segregation: Boundaries Still Separate Cities.

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Apr 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, crime, downtown, infrastructure, education, transit, construction, metro, art, baltimore, bus, mcdonalds, utopia, dr. martin luther king jr., buses, racial segregation, minorities, martin luther king | 0

  The newswire is flooded with memorials today—odes to a man who gave his life to racial harmony. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered on this day 40 years ago. As journalists, writers and broadcasters compare his legacy to the progress of race relations in America, there are still many barriers, both physical and subconscious, that separate cultural communities in cities.

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• The Daily Report

  Spotlight on Urban Art - Designer Garages, L.A.‘s Phantom Sightings, Richard Dupont’s Naked Launch.

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Apr 2nd, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Tags: jeffrey hill, art, open space, urban art, designer garage, lacma, phantom sightings, richard dupont, naked launch, village voice | 0

  A weekly look at featured urban art installations, open space projects, galleries and more. This week we visit Fort Worth’s new designer garage, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “Phantom Sightings” exhibit, and preview Village Voice’s interview with artist Richard Dupont.

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• Columnists

  A Bronze Fonz? A Revealing Tussle over Public Art in Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Wed, Mar 26th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, downtown, chicago, tourism, art, 1970s, public art, fonzie, picasso, beer, tv characters | 8

  An uproar over a statue of the 1970s TV icon says more about its city than any piece of public art could.

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• Headlines

  Philly Presidential Debate, Chinese Super-Cities, Carl Rowe Interview, Alphono Jackon Blues, MORE

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Mar 25th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, news, obama, clinton, building, energy, green, china, sustainability, atlanta, art, democrats, architects, michael nutter, music, economics, alphonso jackson, chinese, carl rowe, austin | 0

  Philadelphia Daily News reports: “Mayor (Michael) Nutter said yesterday that he wants to get presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Philadelphia for a public discussion of urban issues before the April 22 Democratic primary ... Nutter said that issues affecting American cities haven’t gotten enough attention in the campaign. ‘Health care is very important,’ Nutter said. ‘The war is very, very important. But if you live at 56th and Master, you’re not as focused on what al Qaeda is doing.” MORE

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• The Daily Report

  Punk as F*ck: Anarchy in the NYT

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Jan 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, art, punk as fuck, punk houses, art collection, anarchy in nyc, virtual gallery, ny times, abby banks | 11

  Last summer, I saw an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum entitled “Grafitti,” a collection of twenty pieces of public art that had moved from the streets to the gallery. Gazing at the larger than life canvasses, I couldn’t help but sense that something was off. The visuals were stunning, but the meaning was lost, the style was amateur, and the tagging came off as mere self-indulgence. To conflate matters, visitors could even look at a “virtual gallery” of graf on the museum’s website.…

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