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	<title>Red Balloon Studio</title>
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	<description>The Life and Art of Karey Maurice Counts</description>
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		<title>A long admiration of Asian culture.</title>
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Its true, African Americans have long admired Asian culture and its traditions along with its post war contemporary restructuring. The introduction of martial arts in the 1970&#8217;s to western society sparked the interest of African Americans across the nation and Karate was practiced (although secretly) in the basements of homes and public housing developments everywhere. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=854</link>
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		<title>Crime pays steal a career,Today!</title>
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Attention artists! Just in case you didn&#8217;t know already you can become the latest sensation in the post modern art world by simply doing illegal acts and become the talk of the town and the public enemy of your local police department. But for all your troubles the payoff is a career in the post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=844</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Work of Art&#8221; television series on BRAVO.</title>
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The program ends its first season on August 11th so if you have missed it, you still have a chance to see the winner be crowned and be awarded an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum which opens on August 14th in the projects gallery on the fifth floor.
The show is hosted by Tina Chow and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=840</link>
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		<title>Mid Summer night dreams.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well this is peak summer season and all I can say is that I have servived not going out of my mind due to personal circumstances. Going into detail would insure that knowbody read my blog again so I will spare you the anguish.
Not many stories to report on at this point but I must [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=836</link>
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		<title>HAPPY BIRTHDAY Keith Haring May 4 1958</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a day of  acknowledgement of a geat person and friend Mr.Keith A. Haring. A man who approached his art career with a passion and honesty unlike anyone I have ever encountered to this day.I will never forget our conversations we had about life and the persuit of a career as an artist.I remember [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=820</link>
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		<title>New Interview on Artrendnow.</title>
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Artrendnow by Eva Wong
www.artrend-now.com 
1. When did you start doing art?
A: I started professionally exhibiting my work twenty one years ago.
2. What inspired your work?
A: I met the late Keith Haring in 1987 in New York, but before that I always knew I wanted to be an artist or designer since I was fourteen years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=801</link>
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		<title>Redoing the&#8221;Old Mastaa&#8217;s&#8221;Kehinde Wiley</title>
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2010 Character Approved Awards honoree Kehinde Wiley 
&#8220;What a sensational honor to have this artist and his statement be documented for all to hear and see,and to bare witness to what it feels like being African American in this world.He has given us a true visual gift and a much needed makeover as far as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=791</link>
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		<title>Yoshitomo Nara+KaMo+Kidrobot=cultural exchange.</title>
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Yoshitomo Nara + KaMo drawing on mini Munny.


An unexpected collaboration occured between two artists who live on opposite sides of the world from each other and their lives couldn&#8217;t be any more contrasting by one artist being born in Japan and the other in Trenton New jersey.
This unlikely work in progress was self-imposed by me during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=783</link>
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		<title>Andy Warhol addresses Civil Rights movement.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year was 1963 just four months before the author (I) was born and something was happening of great importance in our country besides my own birth.
In Birmingham Alabama a peaceful civil rights demonstration was brutally interrupted by local police with fire hoses and German Sheppard attack dogs on people who just wanted to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=770</link>
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		<title>New documentary &#8216;Basquiat&#8217; The Radiant Child</title>
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This looks like an interesting new film but its a sad story that really shouldn&#8217;t be retold over and over again because it doesn&#8217;t inspire anyone,or I should say,any African Americans to become fine artists.
We are already conditioned to believe in rejection of our god given talents for more realistic goals taught to us by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redballoonstudio.com/?p=752</link>
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