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Rising Souls: Inside Out in Haiti
Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. This morning the people of Port au Prince woke up to portraits of their own – locals and members of the Haitian diaspora –...
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Three TEDTalks converge in Manhattan
The topics of three different TEDTalks are converging this weekend in New York City … Street artist JR, the winner of the 2011 TED Prize, is pasting a portrait of a young member of the Lakota tribe on...
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A TED Prize wish — 100,000 posters later
JR’s art isn’t meant to be hung in an ornate frame in a museum or gallery. For more than a decade, the street artist has printed poster-sized photographs and pasted them on city walls to dramatic...
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JR’s posters come full circle
Artist JR’s Inside Out Project has dispersed more than 100,000 stunning black-and-white posters all over the world, intended for groups to paste in their communities to draw attention to social...
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10 more communities turned Inside Out by TED Prize winner JR
This group of activists from Seoul, Korea, visited New York City, hoping to raise awareness of “Comfort Women” – some 200,000 Korean women who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese Army during...
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A documentary about JR, and his participatory art project INSIDE OUT, to...
The documentary INSIDE OUT: The People’s Art Project will premiere at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival in New York this Saturday, April 20, giving an intimate look into the courageous victories and...
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A gallery of JR mania: The artist takes Manhattan
Artist JR’s Inside Out photo truck is parked in Times Square in New York City through May 10 for a project he calls “Art vs. Advertising.” Photo: Instagram.com/newyorkermag TED Prize winner JR rolled...
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Turning New York City INSIDE OUT: Volunteering at JR’s photo truck
JR, the man behind the participatory global art project INSIDE OUT, has parked a photobooth truck in Times Square, from now until May 10. Photo: Instagram/newyorkermag On an unseasonably chilly Monday...
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Turning Haiti, Tunisia and the West Bank inside out: A documentary on JR’s...
“We use images like a weapon to fight for social causes,” says a man in the trailer for INSIDE OUT: The People’s Art Project, a new documentary that airs on HBO tonight. The doc tells the story of...
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JR and Liu Bolin join forces to make the TED dream team
The image above is classic Liu Bolin — the artist painted exactingly to blend in with the scene behind him. Liu Bolin: The invisible man (Watch his talk from TED2013, “The invisible man.”) But if you...
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INSIDE OUT turns images into global action from the North Pole to Malawi
Since TED Prize winner JR launched his INSIDE OUT project in 2011, thousands of people have contributed their faces to the world’s largest public photo gallery. And now the project has made its way to...
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JR appears on Charlie Rose, talks about his artistic process
Most of JR’s projects — including his Instagram essay of Kim Il Sung’s 100th birthday celebration in North Korea last year — begin with him seeing a news report. This is what the street artist and TED...
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TED News in Brief: A time-lapse of 6,000 portraits, and a novel about botany
Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of TED-related news items in the ether. Here, some highlights: TED Prize winner JR (watch his talk) has shared this stunning time-lapse video of 6,000 people...
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“I wanted to put my eye in there”: JR on his collaboration with the New York...
A look at JR’s latest work—a mural of an eye, formed out of the bodies of the New York City Ballet’s dancers. Artist JR’s latest project turns the floor of the David H. Koch Theater, home of the New...
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“If I don’t ask, I won’t get”: A recap of “I heart design,” All-Stars Session...
By Liz Jacobs and Helen Walters Stefan Sagmeister. Photo: Bret Hartman It’s often said that good design is invisible design — it makes things easy and delightful without us realizing it. But as host...
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An Inside Out portrait that delivers a message to drone operators
This portrait of a girl tells a story larger than the massive piece of vinyl it is printed on. Unfurled in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan, “#NotABugSplat” was created by a collection of...
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Rising Souls: Inside Out in Haiti
Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. This morning the people of Port au Prince woke up to portraits of their own – locals and members of the Haitian diaspora –...
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Three TEDTalks converge in Manhattan
The topics of three different TEDTalks are converging this weekend in New York City … Street artist JR, the winner of the 2011 TED Prize, is pasting a portrait of a young member of the Lakota tribe on...
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A TED Prize wish — 100,000 posters later
JR’s art isn’t meant to be hung in an ornate frame in a museum or gallery. For more than a decade, the street artist has printed poster-sized photographs and pasted them on city walls to dramatic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
JR’s posters come full circle
Artist JR’s Inside Out Project has dispersed more than 100,000 stunning black-and-white posters all over the world, intended for groups to paste in their communities to draw attention to social...
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