Art and Style | August 19, 2008 | 3 comments

American Artist Detained In Beijing

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James Powderly, co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab (G.R.L.), was detained by Beijing authorities while readying a specially planned Tibetan protest project using the infamous L.A.S.E.R. stencil. After being disinvited to Beijing’s National Media Art Museum cause they refused to cave, the engineer-artist decided to go to China anyway and promote a free Tibet. He was reportedly picked up around 3AM this morning our time and according to FreeTibet, "his current whereabouts remain unknown."

For those unfamiliar with the L.A.S.E.R. Stencil heres a link to a really cool video about it:
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video
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