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Originally posted on More Than Museums:
Talking Statues is a project by Sing London designed to bring statues to life from across London and Manchester by giving them a voice. Each of the statues involved in the project is provided…

Originally posted on Americas South and North:
In response to last Sunday’s protests demanding Dilma’s removal from office, tens of thousands of Brazilians gathered in state capitals throughout the country in support if not of the government, then of institutional…

Originally posted on Travel Between The Pages:
The Japanese artist who goes by the enigmatic name of Segawa Thirty Seven turns classic woodblock prints and paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries into amusing animated gifs. The addition of trains,…

It may sound farfetched to think that someday the homeless will be systematically killed off, forced out in to the open to be mistreated by the public, punished by the weather and starved to death as a result of a…

Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
This 16 August 2015 video from Manchester, England is called Maxine Peake Reads Shelley‘s Masque of Anarchy for Peterloo Massacre Memorial. From daily The Morning Star in Britain: Hundreds gather to mark 1819…

Originally posted on Bizarre and Grotesque:
Percy Fawcett with an Olmec (?) statue. Colonel Percy Fawcett was one of the most famous British explorers of his day, a friend of writers Arthur Conan Doyle and H. Rider Haggard. He had…

Originally posted on Sustainable Smart Cities:
Ben Harrison, Director of Partnerships at The Centre for Cities has written a great piece this week about the governance issues affecting city regions and the pace of devolution. The announcement this week that the Government…