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Tag Archives: JR
Age is just a state of mind (or not)
Inspired by his own series of giant paste-up portraits, the French street artist known as JR started a scheme back in 2011 encouraging people around the world to participate in his Inside Out project by doing their own pastings. They … Continue reading
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Tagged JR, Mural Art, Street Art
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Don’t Call Him French Banksy
Peripatetic French street artist JR has just completed a moving work on the Mexican side of the U.S./Mexico border. The timely piece—a large-scale photograph of a child looking over the border wall—is a dramatic rebuke to Trump’s anti-immigrant policies.
We All Come From Somewhere Else
Earlier this year, I shared a story on street artist JR’s documentary on Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Last week, the peripatetic French artist created this enormous installation on Franklin Street in Tribeca NYC. The piece, titled “Unframed, Ellis … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Film, History, Photography, USA
Tagged Ellis Island, JR, NYC, Street Art, Tribeca
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