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Have Heists Become Chic?

November 10, 2025November 10, 2025 Natalia Olivas

With so many issues and wars around the world, watching a modern day heist go down has a refreshing spirit to it. Recently, the Louvre in Paris was robbed in broad daylight. About $102 million dollars worth of French crown jewels were stolen by 4 suspects dressed as construction workers.

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7 Minutes Is All It Takes

November 5, 2025November 2, 2025 Penny Robertson

Have you ever wondered just how much you can accomplish in 7 minutes? Well it might just be more than you could ever imagine, like a crime that could either leave you endlessly wealthy or with a like sentence. On October 19, 2025 at approximately 9:30am in Paris, France, 7

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Where Street Art Meets Your Phones

September 7, 2018February 14, 2021 Jonathan Dain

Graffiti defined as drawings scribbled, scratched or sprayed on a surface of a public place, is often seen on buildings and overpasses as one is driving along both city streets and highways. Artist range from kids with markers, or paint to people who have spent years honing their craft and

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Fighting Terror with Culture Preservation

December 2, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

On the evening of November 13, 2015, ironically coinciding with Friday the 13th, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in the city of Paris, France. These unexpected attacks consisted of mass shootings, suicide bombings and hostage-taking, some of which occurred at the Bataclan theatre, where the American band Eagles

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Silent Protest

December 2, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Art is often used as a sign of protests and some of the best protests are the simplest. One of those very protests is occurring in Paris right now. The protest is for the United Nation’s Paris Climate Summit and the art is 20,000 shoes. This United Nation’s Climate Summit

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Street Artists Put Climate Change Hypocrites in Their Place

December 1, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

This year during the COP21 United Nations climate change conference in Paris, art activists in the city decided to use street art and performances to protest climate change and corporate sponsorship of the conference. The reasoning for this is the fact the sponsors for the event are, in reality, adding

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Brandalism’s 600 Fake Advertisements

November 30, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

The United Nations conference on climate change has begun in Paris. The conference starts today, November 30 to December 11 and involves over 150 heads of State and Government. This is the 21st conference and the subject of the conference is about plans on stopping Greenhouse Gas emission and creating

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Space Invaders

October 26, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Invader was born in Paris in 1969. While his real name is unknown, his street art, with the help of his small team called Space Invaders, is well known in a total of 60 cities and 30 countries around the world. His mosaics, featuring characters from video games in the

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Does Art Cause Crime? (no, it is not that simple): A Cultural Criminological Response to the Charlie

January 13, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

The Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris on January 7, 2015 beg for a more nuanced understanding of what happened and why, than is currently available in the popular media. Cultural criminology considers both the background and foreground of crime, and also sometimes studies the relationship between art and crime. As

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Does Art Cause Crime? (no, it is not that simple): A Cultural Criminological Response to the Charlie Hebdo Shootings

January 13, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

The Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris on January 7, 2015 beg for a more nuanced understanding of what happened and why, than is currently available in the popular media. Cultural criminology considers both the background and foreground of crime, and also sometimes studies the relationship between art and crime. As

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