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Artists 'Delete' Ads to Provoke Discussion

The Starbucks signs are covered by bright, canary yellow fabric and plastic. So are the placards outside a soup restaurant, a jewelry shop, a bank and all other businesses on a stretch of a popular Vienna shopping street. The coverings are part of a two-week art project dubbed "Delete!"  created by artists Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf to spark public debate about just how much advertising society can take.

Read the whole story at AP, June 15, 2005 »

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