A University of Minnesota grad student is up for a Webby Award for Best NetArt site for a project that creates typography from letter-shaped buildings found on Google Maps. Jesse Vig, who’s studying…
Whether through calculated efforts by his campaign or grassroots channels (like NotCot.org‘s user-submitted entry system), Barack Obama seems to be the biggest beneficiary of the work of street artists,…
Documentarian Errol Morris calls his new film a “nonfiction horror movie.” And from the sound of it, Standard Operating Procedure doesn’t fail to deliver on gore: A chronicle of prisoner abuse…
A couple months ago, street artist/designer Shepard Fairey debuted his limited-edition Barack Obama prints on his Web site. Like everything else Fairey has done (including honest-to-goodness marketing campaigns for corporate giants Pepsi and…
The crafters over at Etsy.com, the site for all things handmade, have been busy making over the presidential candidates. Here, you can find Hillary Clinton’s simpering mug in a beaded, thumb-sized pillow, as Warhol-inspired
Halfway through installing a green roof on Wednesday night, May 2, Corrie Zoll stopped to take a slug from a bottle of Guinness. It wasn’t that he was tired out. Just three minutes into the…
The Minnesota State Fair‘s exhibition of crop art is the epitome of democracy: as David Steinlicht, who runs CropArt.com, says, “The art competition in the Fine Arts building is so fierce that your…
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