There's new high profile street art from Banksy, who says on his website that Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons — they don't have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day."  It comes with a two-minute film.
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Self-produced videos are also calculated ways to distribute destruction of art. ISIS militants destroy antiquities in Iraq and sends out video.
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The city of Sacramento and its NBA team want to commission a sculpture by Jeff Koons for new downtown arena. At $8 million it will be the most expensive public art piece in that city’s history.
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North Seattle mural honoring Native Americans took 12 years to create and one night to deface.
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In 1938, Talladega College commissioned artist Hale Woodruff to create murals telling the story of the Amistad.  A traveling exhibition organized by the High Museum in Atlanta showcases the Talladega murals, now on view at the Smithsonian.
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How toons are invading contemporary art in two ways.
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Artistic murals and “street art” are subject of “The Unexpected Project: Festival of Murals” set for September in Fort Smith. Time Record. (The news source for Fort Smith, Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma).

REVIEW:  "20 Years Under the Influence" and "SLANG Aesthetics!" a new solo show by Robert Williams.
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REVIEW: "Mr. Rand didn’t invent branding, but he did it as well as anyone ever has or is likely to, a point driven home in an entertaining and enlightening way in “Everything Is Design: The Work of Paul Rand” at the Museum of the City of New York." 
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REVIEW:  “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at MoMA.  
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