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VENICEVANDAL | Places the US has Bombed Since WWII

MAURIZIO CATTELAN | La nona ora | The Pope is crushed by an errant meteorite. Recently featured in DB Artmag in an article entitled "The Laughing Paintbrush".

BLUE NOSES | Kissing Policemen (An Epoch of Clemency) | This photograph was banned in early October by Russia's culture minister, Alexander Sokolov, from an exhibition of contemporary Russian art in Paris.

ALISON JACKSON | Bush Firing Range | British artist Jackson has gained notoriety for her skilled framing of look-alike politicians and celebretrons in compromising positions, such as the one above. Others include Elton John receiving an enema in a hotel room from a nurse and the infamous 1999 image of Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed posing with a mixed-race baby. Her new book, Confidential, published by Taschen, has recently hit the shelves in North America.

Xu Zhen | Maverick of the Chinese art scene, Xu Zhen has claimed to shave off the top 186cm of Mount Everest, and is touring the hunk of frozen water across the world. Questioning whether the cap is real is unavoidable, and intentional, drawing a link to the uncertain height of the mountain itself. (Video of Everest installation.)

FIGURE OF SPEECH | Zero | A park in Singapore was the scene of a protest by action figures opposed to a animation distributor's crackdown on the downloading of anime. Police sent four vans of riot cops in response.

Syringe Hook | Svetla Turnin | A summer 2007 anti-intravenous drug campaign in Montreal, QC, includes sidewalk-painted images of syringe hooks throughout the city.

CUPE Photo Gallery | Police Disguised as Protesters at Montebello | This photo, taken on August 20th at the North American Leaders Summit in Montebello, Quebec, clearly shows the soles of three "protesters" to be identical to those worn by riot police. Read the article below for more information.

Roshan Houshmand | Submission | "Submission means Islam in Arabic. This painting was made for a Human Rights exhibition. It refers to the sub-human treatment of women in certain Islamic countries...As an Iranian/American having been raised in the Philippines and Iran; and having spent the majority of my artistic life in Spain and the US, I connect to the diverse patterns of culture in search for a universal truth."

ANKO | When is a Threat Not a Threat? | "Remember those three inert grenades I bought? Here’s what became of the first. I’m modifying them under the common theme of “When is a threat not a threat”. I came up with the idea in planning some public art projects. If you wheat paste or paint, it’s vandalism. Leave a sculpture somewhere and they’ll think it’s a bomb. We all remember what happened with the aquateen hunger force movie promotions, yes? No one wants to get arrested, so these won’t leave the house."

DAN WITZ | Killroy Variations | "During World War II, the saying "Kilroy Was Here!" began to appear as graffiti at home and wherever the American military traveled abroad. Eventually the saying, and the cartoon character that often accompanied it, came to represent America's worldwide presence."

MARK JENKINS | Street Installation

OXFAM | G8 Big Heads | Oxfam activists posing as the G8 leaders revel in a game of high stakes poker over the future of Africa. Photo: Craig Owen / Oxfam.

JACQUELYN BOND | Wake Up America

ED JANZEN | Araphat | "In a world often paralyzed by infantile political discourse, Andy Warhol’s famous multiple-screen print technique, with its candy-coloured American pop vocabulary, can offer us a Western but atypical lens through which to seek new understandings between cultures. We owe it to our world and ourselves to break past ritualized polemic, to search more broadly whenever we consider famous or important personalities of the past. In this series the late Palestinian president, Yasir Arafat, surely one of the most recognizable, iconic faces of the twentieth century, raises his fingers in the victory symbol as he exits a polling booth."

FLOWINSTITUTE | Addiction Liberators | Products by the FLOWinstitute at the Danish Museum of Design. Photo: Todd Lappin.

Q-DRUM | The Q-Drum's simple design makes makes the transport of water a far less burdensome task. The innovative longitudinal shaft allows the container to be easily rolled while reinforcing stability.

EZRA WINTON | Banned at Wal-Mart Collage of six albums banned from Wal-Mart due to the album covers themselves or because of unsavory lyrics such as Nirvana's "Rape Me" which, when finally accepted as a Wal-Mart download, was changed to "Waif Me." For more banned albums, see the fabulous gallery at Taboo Tunes.

HUGES LEGLISE-BATAILLE | Welcome to Sarkoland | Demonstrators took to the streets of Paris Sunday night, protesting the election of right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy as French president. Police used pepper spray, water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowd, some of whom had gathered in the Opéra Bastille (pictured here). View the full photo set here.

RONNIE MCKINLEY | Black and White Politics