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PHOTOS: Incredible Envelope Portraits

Posted 01.10.2012

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London-based artist Mark Powell has produced these striking drawings despite only using the most basic of materials: ink and paper. His recent series ...

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4chan Founder's New Startup Now Open

GigaOm | Posted 11.06.2011

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Seven years after launching anarchic image board site 4chan, Christopher Poole aka "moot" unveiled Canvas in January, a re-imagined message board that...

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PHOTOS: Hieronymus Bosch Plus Contemporary Painting Equals This

Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Exhibition, Australian, Cameron Hayes, NY Culture, Canvas, World Issues, Slidepollajax, NY Around Town, Hieronymus Bosch, Feldman Gallery, Painting, New York, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Arts News

Be prepared to get lost in Cameron Hayes' paintings. In his new exhibition, 'Tattles,' Hayes uses intricate and fantastical imagery to chronicle our c...

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The Professors of Protest and the University of Revolution

John Jackson | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: John Lewis, Gene Sharp, Otpor, Dictatorship, Lebanon, Civil Rights, Gandhi, Apartheid, Columbia University, Egypt Revolution, Burma, Georgia, Ukraine, Canvas, Milosevic, Non-Violence, James Lawson, Impact News
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Srdja Popovic, a former Otpor leader and Founder of CANVAS will be speaking at Columbia University next week on the strategy and organization of non-violent revolution.

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PHOTOS: Simple, Surreal Paintings Based On Middle Eastern Traditions

Posted 05.25.2011

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WHO: Nadia Ayari WHAT: This Place WHEN: February 25 - April 16, 2011 WHERE: Monya Rowe Gallery 504 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY...

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BLOG WATCH> Eastern State Penitentiary Photographs By J.K. Yarnall At Format Magazine

formatmag.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, History, Art, Photographers, Eastern State, Prison, Canvas, Spooky, Broken Windows, Criminals, J.K. Yarnall, Format Magazine, Eerie, Penitentiary, Arts News

Photographer J.K. Yarnall captures the eeriness of Eastern State Penitentiary in his aptly named portfolio. Yarnall gives us a quick introduction abou...

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A 2010 Whitney Biennial Biopsy

Sharon L. Butler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unlike the last Whitney Biennial, which offered very few canvases, the 2010 show features paintings around every corner.

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