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We’re all for clever and subversive street art, especially when it’s done to surfaces that more or less deserve it, as is the case with many of those so-called vandals whose work is featured in Manofest’s listicle of The 25 Funniest Moments in Vandalism History. We especially like the playful revenge a graffiti artist took [...]

While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]