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For the street artist known only as JR, the world is a canvas.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27Photograffeur-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In the bottom right-hand corner of the poster was a label, too sophisticated to be a graffiti artist’s tag but something along those lines: a Japanese-like calligraphic symbol concocted from the letters “J” and “R” above a Web address. Suddenly, amid all the fear and long-bred loathing, questions were being asked about this strange work of art. How did it come to be there? Who was, as one newspaper asked, “this kamikaze image-maker,” JR?