Friday Clip Show
Are re-blogged links the blogger’s version of the sitcom flashback episode? Uh, maybe, but in any case, here’s a partial and purely subjective roundup of the past week in art, culture, etc. in Chicago...
View ArticleGraffiti Artist Banksy Leaves Work in Detroit & Is Immediately Taken Down By...
Graffiti Artist Banksy who has been making the rounds throughout US cities recently (Los Angeles, Park City for Sundance, Chicago and Toronto) created a work in Detroit which has created a larger...
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Detroit Banksy Work Moved After Threats to Gallery
Bad at Sports posted a week or so back about the removal of a Banksy mural by 555 Nonprofit Gallery & Studios (a local Detroit gallery) from the old Packard Plant to their site. At the time I knew...
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Detroit Banksy Mural In Court Now Since Factory Landowner Claims Ownership
Back in May & June we wrote about Banksy’s trip to Detroit and his mural that was created in the old derilict Packard plant there. That mural of a boy with a paint can saying “I remember when all...
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Ray Noland’s Urban Fairway
Guest post by Elizabeth Corr There has certainly been no lack of political drama in Chicago over the past two years. Starting in November 2008, with the historical election of Barack Obama, a wave of...
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Book Review: Chicago Street Art
Blagojevich buffs Blagojevich. By CRO. Photo by author. (Image not included in book.) Chicago is one of the few major cities that use taxpayer dollars to destroy art, to the tune of $9 million in 2010....
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