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UbuWeb has assembled a terrific group of street posters and found miscellany that are simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, like tiny blinks into some post-9/11 Balzac novel. A lot of artists and artist collectives right now are trying to pull off projects quite similar to this—creating very direct, human-to-human pieces of art that don’t really look like art, and then disseminating them in “the community” on telephone poles and other unassuming places. But compared to first-wave pleas and missives like these, the artists’ versions (which are frequently overly earnest and Boy Scout-ish) usually remind me of grad students who try to make folk art. It’s nice to be reminded of the mysteries and passions of the originals.

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