Billboards

McDonald's Billboard Has Drivers Worried They'll Get Crushed By Banana Bread

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Billboard, Fast Food, Billboards, Video, Advertising, Advertising News, Banana Bread, Business News, McDonald's, Bananas, Fast Food Industry, Baked Goods, Business News

The last thing any motorist wants is a slice of banana bread to come crashing down on his or her car, especially if that slice is actually a chunk of ...

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WATCH: Agustina Woodgate On Arting Up Miami Billboards And Bus Shelters

Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Video, Bus Shelters, Billboards, Miami News, Miami Art, Locust Projects, Spinello Projects, Agustina Woodgate, Miami News

For the second year for Art Basel Miami Beach, Locust Projects commissioned a Miami artist to create site-specific installations on billboards and bus...

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What I Want for Christmas This Year

Michael Kaiser | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Billboards, Fact Check, Pbs, American Orchestras, Arts, Christmas, Grass Roots Organizations, Arts Education, Arts Funding, Arts Future, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

Greater public appreciation for the work of grass roots arts organizations which provide education, inspiration and entertainment to the underserved and provide access for new audiences and emerging artists.

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When Billboards Are Ripped

Jan Herman | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Richard Sargent, Billboards, Wolf Vostell, Robert Rauschenberg, Pop Art, Mimmo Rotella, Abstract Expressionism, East Bay, Decollage, Exposure, Arts News
Jan Herman

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Hog Dogs=Cigarettes?

Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Hot Dog Health, Billboards, Hot Dogs Cigarettes, Hot Dogs Cigarettes Billboard, Health Warning, Tobacco, Health Warning Labels, Hot Dogs Worse Than Cigarettes, Hot Dogs Bad for Health, Hotdogs and Cigarettes, Food News

A provocative new billboard outside the Indianapolis Speedway—home of the Indy 500—claims that hot dogs are just as bad as cigarettes when it come...

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The Coolest Billboard Ever?

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Coca-Cola Plant Billboard, Coca-Cola, Billboards, Living Billboard, Advertising, Nature, Plant Billboard, Environment, Wwf, Philippines, Green News

Together with the World Wildlife Federation, on June 23 Coca-Cola unveiled a billboard in the Philippines that's actually good for the city it inhabit...

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Restaurant Pulls Billboards With Jonestown Massacre References

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indiana Cult Billboards, La Senorita Billboards Billboards, Billboards, Advertising, Jonestown Massacre, Cults, Cult Billboards, Food News

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A northern Indiana restaurant that erected billboards referring to the 1978 Jonestown cult massacre in which more than 900 pe...

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WATCH: Designer "Breaks Up" With Los Angeles Before Moving On... To New York

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles vs New York, Break Ups, Billboards, Breaking Up, Los Angeles, Break Up Billboards, Graphic-Designer, Graphic Design, Arts News

Breaking up is never easy, as evidenced by such extreme measures as the Museum of Broken Relationships and by the billboards now gracing the streets o...

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Kansas Billboard Urges Residents To 'Vote American' Against Indian-American Candidate

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kansas 4th Congressional District, Kansas House Race, Billboard, Kansas House, Billboards, Raj Goyle, Ks-4 Race, Elections 2010, Mike Pompeo, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A billboard urging people to "Vote American" and support Kansas Republican congressional candidate Mike Pompeo is igniting controversy i...

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: John Margolies Highlights American Kitsch

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, John Margolies, Billboards, Roadside Art, Vintage, American Kitsch, Vintage Photographs, Kitsch, Funny Signs, Exhibitions, Arts News

WHO: John Margolies WHAT: 'Roadside America' WHERE: Traffic Art Space 136 East 74th Street New York, NY 10021 WHEN: July 23rd - September 2nd, 2010...

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11 Awesomely Creative Billboards (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Billboards, Funny Billboards, Awesome Billboards, Creative Billboards, Advertising, Comedy Slideshows, Slidepollajax, Comedy News

When jetting down the highway advertisers only have seconds to catch your eye and keep your interest. We're pretty sure these billboards did just that...

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When Is it Art? The Age-Old Question in a Crazy New Context

Carine Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Logos, Tom LaBonge, Billboards, Vox Humana, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Public Art, Carmen Trutanich, l.A. Art Machine, Unintended Consequences, Mear One, American Flag, Ed Reyes, Supergraphics, Mural Capital of the World, Apple Iphone, Fine Art Murals, Paul Krekorian, The Loft at Liz's, Miracle Mile Artwalk, Graffiti, First Amendment, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Alphonse Mucha, Arts News
Carine Fabius

So, it turns out that the City of Los Angeles has been buffing (or painting over) hundreds of murals since 2007 because of a mind-bending poster case for the law of unintended consequences.

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Plan ForYourArt June 17-19

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, Judy Fiskin, Billboards, Urban Planning, ACE Gallery, Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner, Achim Freyer, L.A. Opera, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Architecture, Mak Center, Dingbat, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

THURSDAY, JUNE 17 How Many Billboards? Closing Reception MAK Center (West Hollywood) 7-9pm The closing reception for How Many Billboards? the public ...

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Stop The Sag: State Senator Starts Campaign To End Saggy Pants (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stop the Sag Video, Video, Billboards, Saggy Pants Trend, Pants on the Ground, Youth Culture, Eric Adams, Stop the Sag, Larry Platt, Sagging, Saggy Pants, New York News

State Senator Eric Adams has a message for the youth of America: Stop the Sag! The Brooklyn politician is behind six new billboards around town tak...

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The Most WTF Billboards Of All Time (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Funny Billboards, Ridiculous Billboards, Slidepollajax, Wtf Billboards, Billboard Fails, Crazy Billboards, Awesome Billboards, Scary Billboards, Billboards, Most Wtf Billboards, Comedy Slideshows, Comedy News

Most billboards are purely functional. Advertising something with a workmanlike attitude. But there are extremes. There are the awesome ones that show...

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Be First on the National Billboards-May-Not-Talk-to-Me List

Kirk Cheyfitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Software, Marketing, Billboards, Media, Facial Recognition, Advertising, Media News
Kirk Cheyfitz

Researchers at NEC in Japan are working on a billboard that will scan your face, guess your age, determine your sex and then deliver an ad personalize...

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'Minority Report' Billboard Watches You Shop

The Sun | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 'Minority Report' Billboard, Billboards, Advertising, Technology News, Advertising-Technology, Minority Report, Technology News

RETAILERS are targeting individual shoppers with digital billboards like those in the hit Tom Cruise film Minority Report. Cameras in the advert ho...

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4 More Arrests Sought As Billboard Wars Escalate

AP | JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billboard, Supergraphics, Billboards, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — City prosecutors have charged four people and four companies with illegally hanging giant billboards at an intersection near the s...

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WK Interact Does Dwayne Wade Billboard (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dwayne Wade, Video, Billboards, WK Interact, Basketball Shoes, Advertising, Nike, Street Art, Air Jordan, Graffiti, New York News

Despite the bad rap they get, billboards can still be impressive feats of artistic skill. Not every one of them is a giant crotch shot or ad for the ...

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Plan ForYourArt, February 25-March 3

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mary Kelly, Billboards, Mark Grotjahn, Mak Center, Ucla, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Kimberly Brooks, Mark Bradford, Taylor De Cordoba, Pacific Standard Time, Usc, Los Angeles, Brain and Creativity Institute, Blum & Poe, Rick Lowe, Kyong Park, Hammer Museum, How Many Billboards?, Redcat, Antonio Damasio, Foryourart, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Each Week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt, from post-feminist Mary Kelly to artist Mark Grotjahn.

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Billboard Backlash: City Goes After 'Supergraphics'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supergraphics, Billboards, Digital Billboards, Los Angeles Billboards, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles city attorney's office has filed its first charges under a ban passed last year on the giant building-cloaking sig...

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Lights Out: Planning Commission Rules Against Digital Billboards

latimes.com | Maeve Reston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clear Channel Outdoor, Billboards, Cbs Outdoor, Digital Billboards, Los Angeles News

Digital billboard opponents won a victory Wednesday when an area planning commission ruled that Los Angeles city officials erred when they issued perm...

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Public Art Alert: How Many Billboards?

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kenneth Anger, Kimberli Meyer, Allan Sekula, Artists, Media, Ken Gonzales-Day, Dr. Nizan Shaked, Allen Ruppersberg, Southern California, Lauren Woods, Kerry Tribe, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Sara Daleiden, Yvonne Rainer, John Knight, Jennifer Bornstein, Billboards, Mak Center, Lisa Henry, Architecture, Public Art Alert, Renée Green, Los Angeles, David Lamelas, Pop, Eileen Cowin, Art, Kori Newkirk, Kira Lynn Harris, Public Art, Christina Fernandez, Dr. Gloria Sutton, Susan Silton, Brandon Lattu, James Welling, How Many Billboards?, Michael Asher, Martha Rosler With Josh Neufeld, Conceptual, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek



How Many Billboards? Art In Stead focuses on the implications of these media surfaces that saturate the city's landscape, while offering an alternative vision for public art in LA.

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New York City Has Right To Limit Billboards

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metro Fuel, Billboards, New York, New York City, New York City Can Limit Billboards, Clear Channel, New York News

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the city did not violate the First Amendment by limiting the number of billboards along ...

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PLAN ForYourArt, January 28-February 1

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billboards, Harry Smith, Mexican Border, Mak Center, Depeche Mode, Pacific Standard Time, Patti Smith, Paul Chan, Los Angeles, Ferus Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Art, Haiti Earthquake, Hammer Museum, Laxart, Getty, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Moca, Foryourart, X-Tra, Farmlab, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Every week, ForYourArt highlights select offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt. There has never been more worldwide attention on the creative culture of our LA.

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