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HBO Video: Trailer for Inside Out Film

“Inside Out: The People’s Art Project,” the new film documenting French artist JR’s participatory portrait project, just debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and will air on HBO May 20, 2013. More about…

VIDEO artist JR on CNN

CNN Video: Interview with Artist JR

In Hong Kong, CNN talks to French artist JR about his semi-anonymity and how his street art in the form of black-and-white portraits of ordinary people has become a vehicle for social change…

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A Voice, A Vote: JR Installs Iconic ‘I Am a Man’ Image in Washington

WASHINGTON, DC—On election day, I thought it was fitting to share this symbolic image of striking sanitation workers, black men holding signs declaring “I Am a Man.” Every voter has a voice. Every…

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Spotted in Soho: Lakota Nation Portrait

NEW YORK—Another Lakota nation portrait from French artist JR’s Inside/Out Project was observed today. This one is pasted up in Soho at the corner of Wooster and Grand. View more images from the…

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Powerful Lakota Portrait Rises High Above Mulberry Street

NEW YORK—After the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota contributed to Inside Out, the participatory project created by JR last year, the French artist began pasting up several their black-and-white portraits around New…

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