TED Prize 2011 Goes to "JR" ➝
It’s not common for important philanthropic prizes to go to people whose work involves criminal trespass and who make statements like the following: “You never know who’s part of the police and who’s not.”
But the TED conference, the California lecture series named for its roots in technology, entertainment and design, said on Tuesday that it planned to give its annual $100,000 prize for 2011 — awarded in the past to figures like Bill Clinton, Bono and the biologist E. O. Wilson — to the Parisian street artist known as J R, a shadowy figure who has made a name for himself by plastering colossal photographs in downtrodden neighborhoods around the world.
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“How can you think freely in the shadow of a chapel?” - May 1968 Graffiti
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“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”
Banksy
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