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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

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This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Google Street Art, a short film you wish was longer, an uplifting song about death, a slapstick take on the “First Kiss” video, and the best bootleg …

Google’s Street (Art) View

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The City with a Mural on (Nearly) Every Wall

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Street Art Gets Truckin’

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Agnès Varda and JR

Agnès Varda and JR are strange bedfellows

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A Malaysian artists's caricatures of  the scandal plagued prime minister as a sinister clown have spurred a wider protest.

Malaysian street artist makes a clown of prime minister

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A new street art campaign in Malaysia shows the prime minister as a evil clown. It’s a protest against a corruption scandal involving the prime minister and the police crackdown on dissidents in Kuala Lumpur.

Justin Bettman and Gözde Eker animate their sets with actors hired through a local casting website. After they’ve staged their photo, they leave the set up for passersby to explore, photograph, rearrange or selfie. This living room was the first set they

Here’s how you can find a bathroom, or a living room, on the streets of New York

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A photographer and a Turkish set designer started building domestic scenes on the street of New York. What started out as an art project has become a commentary on our disposable culture and how public space is valued.

A tilde added to the sign for the N subway line in Sunset Park, a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

Ride New York City’s N train, with a Spanish twist

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Anonymous street artists are putting accent marks on a New York City subway line to draw attention to the growing number of Spanish speakers in the city.