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A Skeptic Queries "The Artist as Urbanist"

Eric J. Henderson | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: ArtMrkt Hamptons, Baudelaire, Ai Weiwei, Alexis Laurent, Barbara Pollack, Green Urban Planning, Urbanist Art, Artmrkt, Urban Planning, Urban Art, Art Urban Planning, Green Urban Design, Arts News
Eric J. Henderson

Alexis Laurent is a contemporary sculptor. His work invites (and counts on) viewers to be part of it to make it whole.

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The Optimist's Parking Lot: This Artweek.LA (August 8-14, 2011)

Bill Bush | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Annie Wharton, Baudelaire, Optimism, Abel Baker Gutierrez, Courbet, Gottfried Leibniz, Beacon Arts Building, Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, Jonny Fenix, Johnny Cubert White, Keith Walsh, Millet, Shepard Fairey, Suzanne Adelman, Apuleius, Arts News
Bill Bush

2011-08-09-sysd.pngThe Optimist's Parking Lot is a meditation on the poetics of optimism.

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Urban Storytelling in New Orleans

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Architecture, Rob Walker, Letters From New Orleans, George Bernard Shaw, Hypothetical Development Organization, Baudelaire, Robert F. Kennedy, The New York Times Magazine, Gowalla, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

Rob Walker's newest project for New Orleans proves him to be no less than a bonafide optimist. He's proposing that we use art and design to alter our perceptions of a downtrodden environment.

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Influences: Angelic and Demonic

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean Malaquais, Jane Austen, Michael Lennon, Zola, Mary Mccarthy, Picasso, Helen Mirren, J.D. Salinger, Aleksandar Hemon, Blanche DuBois, Jill Scott, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Philip Roth, Humphrey Bogart, Mma Ramotswe, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Otto Abetz, Saul Bellow, The Beat Generation, Emma Bovary, Sense and Sensibility, Norman Mailer, Dreyfus Affair, Henri Matisse, Marcel Proust, Tolstoy, William Faulkner, Celine, Cathleen Schine, Baudelaire, Petain, Malraux, Huysmans, Stendahl, Simenon, Gides, Dannecker, Flaubert, Laval, Books News
Barbara Probst Solomon

Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.

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