Link & Ink: Random Reading Edition

"Brown Water, Flint, Michigan, Special Delivery" by J Michael Walker.

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The Contemporary Arts Center returns with "Taste." Las Vegas Weekly  + Paint This Desert

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If MGM Resorts charge for parking maybe they can fund some sort of public art. Case study: A parking lot in Florida. I The Creators Project ​

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English Mixed media artist Carolina Shrewsbury will add another mural to the City of Ely portfolio. I Ely News

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Jane Kim first got attention for Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep murals. Now Kim is unveiling a natural history mural at Cornell Lab of Ornithology that showcases species from every modern bird family I Outside Online + Ink Dwell + Wall of Birds Project

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"A mural of Steve Jobs by the street artist Banksy on a wall in the Calais “Jungle,” aimed at highlighting Europe’s refugee crisis, has been defaced."  I TelegraphUK
 

Banksy mural  "criticising the apparent use of teargas on refugees in the Calais 'Jungle' camp" boarded up by authorities I BBC

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A trailer containing paintings, prints and sculptures by Joan Miro, Leroy Neiman, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse was stolen from an industrial park in Los Angeles, the LAPD Art Theft Detail announced in a crime alert.
ArtNet
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The Hammer Museum announced the lineup for its third "Made in L.A." biennial and it will be "formed largely by artists who resist or defy categorization, challenging notions of what an L.A. artist is." I LATimes

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"Do Outsider Artists Really Exist?" asks ArtNet 
Yes, they do, says NYTimes

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"Pan-American Unity” Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco will be alive again  I NBC Bay Area + SF Gate

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Mirko Ilić and Steven Heller’s "Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters from Around the World" explores international approaches to selling Shakespeare through advertising and graphic design." I Hyperallergic ​

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Photo by Alyse Emdur.

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission worked with LA Commons to map Willowbrook, a hidden neighborhood in South Los Angeles I Forecast Public Art

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The performer’s hands, isolated on a screen, have a life of their own, the long, slender fingers nervously, gracefully, twitching and fluttering, climbing the air in a kind gestural coloratura." Richard Pryor as art installation I NYTimes

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Frozen Dad jeans as temporary pop up public art I CityLab

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