Thai Political Protests (2010)

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He has wallpapered the downstairs space with images from his ongoing series of demonstration drawings (based on newspaper images of protests across the world) and carpeted the floors in orange (what gallery owner Brian Butler calls “a Buddhist...

At least since the French Revolution, the barricade has been a symbol of last-ditch resistance to oppressive, authoritarian forces, a visual and physical act of sheer negation. Gardar Eide Einarsson is no stranger to the trappings of government...

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Julian Austin Tovar, of Newport Beach, traveled to Thailand as part of a team of Westerners planning to make a documentary on Paw Lu Lu, a Burmese exile who was co-nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. On May 20, when Tovar and company arrived at...