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NOTCOT video on Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill, open until October 31st, 2008. Great class discussion starter. "Is it Art?"

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Banksy contemp_artists streetart

Installation work by the famed Banksy, open until October 31st.

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streetart sculpture contemp_artists Banksy

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew explores/exposes what it means to be Indian in America as opposed to American Indian.

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photography contemp_artists culture bias AnnuPalakunnathuMatthew

Chris Jordan runs the numbers on modern American life -- making large-format, long-zoom artwork from the most mindblowing data about our stuff

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ChrisJordan contemp_artists photography consumption

Lux creates her mesmerizing portraits by first taking carefully staged photographs of children of her friends against a white studio wall. She then pastes their digitized images over scans of hand-painted or separately photographed backgrounds. Then, work

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Chinese artist Li Wei mixes performance art and suspension wires with photography and a little photoshop manipulation to construct scenes in which his body appears to be held in gravity-defying suspension or slammed into a wall or floor headfirst.

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LiWei contemp_artists photography performance photoshop

Lynne Hull’s sculptures, which she refers to as “trans-species art,” are intended to restore wildlife habitat damaged by human encroachment.

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contemp_artists LynneHull ecoart sculpture

Robin Rhode, a South-African artist, temporarily occupies surfaces found in public spaces, draws objects with chalk on these and then interacts with the drawings.

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contemp_artists RobinRhode drawing performance streetart

Humans photographed in odd formations and unusual locations.

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sculpture human_body performance photography contemp_artists WilliDorner

Interview with Paula Scher whose work is influenced by mapping.

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Jeremy Mora is a Los-Angeles-based sculptor who creates miniature landscapes using humble materials.

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sculpture contemp_artists JeremyMora dioramas

Musically-inspired artwork of UK artist Marcus Oakley, whose cheery paintings capture the color, form, and sentiment of various songs from the 1970s and '80s.

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contemp_artists MarcusOakley music painting

Korean photo artist Yeondoo Jung takes children’s crayon drawings and recreates them in the real world. Jung spent four months in kindergartens in Seoul and collected 1,200 drawings from 5 to 7 year olds. He chose 18 works of art for the Wonderland series

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child_art photography contemp_artists YeobndooJung

Paper Rad recontextualize material from popular media including television, video games and advertising.

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