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• CRAFTIVISM: Act today for an artier city! (by November 30)

  
  Toronto Craft Alert — Authority: 139
  FINAL VOTE ON BILLBOARD TAX FOR ART NOV. 30 / DEC 1 After seven years of BeautifulCity.ca Alliance campaigning, Toronto City Council will be voting on a billboard tax for art at its next meeting on November 30 and December 1 . The BeautifulCity.ca Alliance is seeking a tax on billboards with the funds going to ...
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• Abe Lincoln

  
  Edinburgh Day by Day — Authority: 126
  Found in Calton burial ground
  16 hours ago

• Call For Media Artists: Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop, Seattle

  
  re-title.com artist opportunities — Authority: 136
  Seattle seeks artist for Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop artwork Selected artist to create new media work for urban trail Deadline: January 12, 2010 SEATTLE— Seattles Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), seeks ...
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• Sticks

  
  The Worst of Perth — Authority: 134
  Lukewarm reaction  to Bumpkin Highway sculpture yesterday, but how about this one in Forrest Place? This one is actually pretty crap. Inside the sticks though there was a machine you could blow giant smoke rings with. More interesting. Thanks to several people who suggested I get this one.
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• Less Billboards, More Art! Please Support This Cause

  
  View on Canadian Art — Authority: 417
  This just in from the Department of Culture, a community of artists and arts professionals who organized themselves in the wake of the Harper Government’s brutal cuts to the arts in the past year, in order to ensure “the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation in the face of a Federal Government ...
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• Jessica Langley: “Home Game” at Cosign Projects

  
  Art-Patrol.com — Authority: 134
  Outdoor art installation on display November 1 through December 12, 2009 at Cosign Projects.In Home Game at Cosign Projects, Jessica Langley is conflating a common competitive sports slogan with autumnal images of nature, making further reference to the death of nature when matched against the industrial giants of ...
  2 days ago

• État d’urgence

  
  Spacing Montreal — Authority: 479
  Arguably the biggest public space event of the year. Montreal-based arts collective ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable) is hosting État d’urgence from Nov.25-29 at Place Emilie-Gamelin (metro Berri-UQAM). According to ATSA co-founder Annie Roy, the event is a mani-festival used to bring together the ...
  2 days ago

• gobble, gobble!

  
  http://thefunctionkey.com — Authority: 120
  For those who celebrate it, we hope you have a scrumptious Thanksgiving! We’ll be back to regular posting after the holidays, watch for our review of the Phil Frost and Barry McGee Show “ mindthegap ,” now showing at LA’s new PRISM gallery. Posted in art, artists, Graffiti, holidays, public art, Rail Life, ...
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• Into the maw of River Rooster

  
  The Worst of Perth — Authority: 134
  You’re a ghost on Bumpkin Highway you’re like River Rooster and meaningless I hate you, but I love you I’ll carry that to the end If I ever lie with you again, I pray I do not sleep If I ever closed my eyes again, I’d realize what you are to me. you are simply a bumpkin, a Busselton who bluffs and steals ...
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• Bright & (Not So) Early: Ars Gratia Artis Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 477
  Good morning, Nashville, and happy almost Turkey Day! This morning, we’re giving thanks for our city’s public art, which Councilman Charlie Tygard has declared that he would like to spread around to the rest of Nashville by filing an ordinance with the Metro Council . This sentiment isn’t sitting well with ...
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• Doha Sunset

  
  Here There and Everywhere — Authority: 432
  When I lived in Kuwait, every day I was thrilled by the sun coming up over the horizon. I never got tired of it. Today, thanks be to God, I was out when the sun started getting low in the sky, and the colors have added dimensions – what a treat. Some views of Doha at sunset:
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• CSI: High Line: Is Art-Selling Arrest the High Lines First Crime?

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 688
  Things one cannot do on the High Line —more promenade than park but it still falls under the Department of Parks and Recreation—include biking, skating, tossing a frisbee, walking a dog and stepping foot on the grass. And, apparently, selling stuff. The latest budding High Line controversy comes to us via City ...
  3 days ago

• GO PENGUINS!

  
  All Things Jennifer — Authority: 140
  Oooh! How I want to travel to Liverpool to see this public art exhibit!GO PENGUINS!Wealthy benefactor/lover of penguins? Are you out there? I have a passport and vacation days to take! Exhibit open until January 10, 2010.LOOK AT ALL THE PENGUINS!!! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh how I want to go [...]
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• The Director’s Roundtable Garden at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  
  Travelin' Local — Authority: 126
  Nothing is simple, and the above picture takes simplicity into the realm of the exquisite. The picture above is nothing short of electric in how it seizes your senses with its sheer attention grabbing eccentricity, elegance, and wittiness. Entitled “Urban Lights” by Chris Burden , this sculpture ...
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• Logan Hicks Goes Huge in Brooklyn with an Ode to His Son

  
  The Jailbreak — Authority: 526
  The good folks over at Brooklyn Street Art just sent me an e-mail about a collaboration they completed with NYC-based artist, Logan Hicks . Over the weekend, Hicks, who is best known for his hand-sprayed stencil work, painted this massive 30′ x 8′ mural (his biggest yet) at Espeis Outside in Williamsburg, ...
  4 days ago

• Upper Swan

  
  The Worst of Perth — Authority: 134
  For every photo. There is an angle. I think they have laid the pathway deliberately so you get this scene just before seeing the belltower . As though your head was “upper swan” and then saw the light of Dicky’s Doodle.
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• ACP Public Art 2010 - Request for Proposals

  
  ACP Now! — Authority: 123
  ACP announces a request for proposals for 2010 Public Art . There’s no entry fee, a $12,000 budget, and proposals are due on January 15th, 2010. Download ACP 12 Public Art RFP: ( .doc / .pdf ) “As one component of our month-long, city-wide celebration of photography each October, ACP produces a Public ...
  4 days ago

• lionhearted.

  
  art + craft = craftivism. — Authority: 485
  So the 2012 Olympics will be held in London . And there is concern about it ruining parts of Hackney , a shame as Hackney has been on the uptick and it needs help in ways other than what the Olympics can provide. Derelict London offers some pics of the areas in question in Hackney, along with some pretty ...
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• Update: San Jose Public Art

  
  ARTSHIFT San Jos — Authority: 130
  The Dr. Martin Luther King Library is a great destination during these shorter, cooler days when indoor activities can be even more inviting. The Library is home to Recolecciones , the public art collection created by an artist team led by Mel Chin. Recolecciones contains 34 artworks that vary widely in form: they ...
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• stairs stave

  
  Al Filreis — Authority: 428
  Social good derived from people choosing to take the stairs rather than the escalator? Yes. So, make stair-walking the making of music, and see what happens. (Thanks to Peter Holstein for the tip.)
  5 days ago

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