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POPSA world springs to life on an urban wall While the onslaught of figures, episodes and colors is at first overwhelming, a casual left-to-right reading suggests some narrative possibilities. Basically what we have here is a tale of escape and growth that begins in darkness and — after taking a few tips from the Bible, Hieronymus Bosch and M. C. Escher — ends in a stunning vortex of brilliant color.
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POPSCreate your own Simpsons Avatar A bunch of my friends on twitter started showing up with Simpsons avatars yesterday. Scott Beale solved the mystery of where they were all getting them - the Simpsons Movie website has a great flash avatar creator.
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POPSThe Murals of Philadelphia 1. 'A Message to the Child...The Hero Can be Found' Artist: John Lewis 2. 'Malcolm X' Artist: Ernel Martinez 3. 'Common Threads' Artist: Meg Saligman 4. The Artist Cavin Jones 5. 'Careers: Heads to the Sky' Artist: Cavin Jones 6. 'Philadelphia on a Half-Tank' Artist: Paul Santoleri 7. The Artists Qimin Liu and Betsy Casañas 8. 'Mario Lanza' Artist: Diane Keller 9. 'Jackie Robinson' Artist: David McShane 10. The Artist David McShane 11-12. 'Lincoln Legacy' Artist: Josh Sarantitis 13. 'Dr. J' Artist: Kent Twitchell 14. 'Frank Rizzo' Artist: Diane Keller 15. 'Reaching for a Star' Artist: Don Gensler 16. The Artists Don Gensler and Michelle Ortiz 17. 'Herman Wrice' Artist: David McShane 18. 'Tribute to Frank Guarrera' Artist: Peter Pagast 19. The Artist Ras Malik 20. 'The Peace Wall' (detail) Artist: Jane Golden
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POPSBonding day for female inmates In Kentucky, the number of incarcerated women has nearly doubled since 2001, with roughly 2,200 women behind bars on any given day. While male inmates still outnumber them nearly 10 to 1, women are catching up, prison officials say, part of a national rise that experts attribute to more drug use, the legacy of mandatory minimum sentences and less judicial leniency toward women with children. And more jailed women means more jailed mothers.
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POPSLeaky Plumbing Reveals a Rainbow There was nothing in the hotel archives to document what had been found. But this 1927 photograph, which originally appeared in Architecture magazine, proved to be a visual Rosetta stone. Mr. Littler found it in "Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze & Weaver," published four years ago by Princeton Architectural Press.
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POPSIndoor Mural This is are indoor murals that try to make you think you are outside instead of inside. Hey, if I wanted to be outside I would have stayed there. Good looking work but not for me.
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POPSamazing 3D murals painted on the sides of buildings The incredibly lifelike scenes are actually huge works of art, painted on the side of perfectly intact buildings... The paintings, which have fooled many, were created by John Pugh, who specialises in trompe l'oeil - or 'trick of the eye' - art.
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POPSForeign Aid $$ Spent on $23M Art at UN Human Rights Council Honestly, this says it all. Wallowing in money, living in another dimension, consumed by their own self-importance....THIS is what they do with the money alloted to them?? It's a crime. Is there no one who will/can stop this elitist, shameless, pompous organization that thumbs it's nose with no sense of shame.
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POPS'Desecrated Flag' Video is DNC Finalist “They should never pick that,” said the contestant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It makes the Democrats look really, really bad.” A spokesman for Organizing for America said the group was not prepared to provide immediate comment on the video, which, according to the OFA Web site, was produced by Daniel Lahoda and Saber. According to the OFA Web site, the 20 finalists will be judged by the public and a panel of experts that includes DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, Obama campaign chief David Plouffe, Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), singer will.i.am and Hollywood stars Rosario Dawson and Dule Hill. Daniel Libit contributed to this story.
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POPSGlenn Beck, anti-communist art critic? More: Fair enough. That’s cable television for you. On to a bigger question: Does Beck know what he’s talking about? Absolutely not, says Christopher Knight, an art critic (a real one) for the Los Angeles Times. Beck was as “nutty as usual,” Knight wrote: He pointed to a portrait of Lenin in Mexican master Diego Rivera’s destroyed Rockefeller lobby mural, “Man at the Crossroads,” but forgot to mention that old John D. had the mural removed because of it. (Facts are stubborn things — even more stubborn than demagoguery.) With comedy stylings like that, Beck is turning out to be the Harold Harby of our day. Who was Harold Harby? A Los Angeles city councilman in the early 1950s, Harby took up propaganda-arms with a paranoid group of right-wing loonies called the Society for Sanity in Art. They made it their patriotic duty to search out Communist symbols they just knew were hidden in that weird, postwar abstract art.
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