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Ocean Trash to Art: Couple Creates Art from Tons of Plastic Pollution Found on California Beach (video)

| November 6, 2011

  Fascinating and thought-provoking, the short documentary below is about Richard and Judith Lang’s endeavors to create art pieces made from tons of plastic trash they’ve found that have washed up on one California beach. Some of the pieces of plastic that the Langs have found date back to the 1950s and from many other [...]

The Courage & Spirit of Ruby Bridges, Captured in Rockwell Painting “The Problem We All Live With,” Is on Display at White House

| August 30, 2011

  Norman Rockwell, one of America’s most beloved and prolific artists, has one of his more compelling, controversial paintings expressing social commentary on display in the White House. “The Problem We All Live With” captured a historic moment during the 1960s Civil Rights movement — Rockwell’s shows first-grader Ruby Bridges on November 14, 1960 being [...]

More Taxpayer Waste: Kansans, Did You Know You’ve Been Footing the Bill for Replicas of the World’s Largest Ball of Twine?

| August 3, 2011

  Your taxpayer dollars have been hard at work, Kansas. MRC’s Times Watch reports on this latest nugget of taxpayer dollars-wasting idiocy — NYT Highlights the Plight of State Cuts to the Arts: Say Goodbye to the Largest Ball of Twine Replica: New York Times writer Robin Pogrebin on Tuesday highlighted cuts to arts funding [...]

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