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The Icy New Protest

By Evan Siegel, The Daily Beast, January 24, 2018 Visitors to New York’s Jim Kempner Fine Art in West Chelsea this past weekend were quite literally confronted with truth. The word was there in the courtyard, spelled in capital letters—a 3,000-pound sculpture of the word, bolded and made entirely of solid ice. At the time of installation, it was about…

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We’re Melting The Future

By Hannah Fischer Lauder, The Impakter, February 15, 2015 On Sunday morning, September 21, 2014, artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese installed a large-scale ice sculpture of the words The Future.This beautifully impermanent public art/climate change monument heralded the United Nations Climate Summit on Sept 23rd in New York City. The artists allowed the sculpture to melt away and disappear,…

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Your (Nonpartisan) Message Here

By Julie Bloom, The New York Times, August 15, 2008 A giant ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” weighing more than 900 pounds that will melt over the course of eight to 12 hours. YouTube public service announcements created by ordinary citizens about what it means to participate in an election. The chance to take the microphone in a bar…

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Busy People Working

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name…