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France’s answer to Banksy: the anonymous street artist filling potholes with colourful mosaics | Street art
Last year, the studio of the Lyon-based artist known as Ememem received an urgent call from an architectural firm close to the city’s Place Sathonay. Someone was in the process of dismantling a mosaic he had installed on the pavement in front of their offices. By the time he arrived, the culprit had fled with half of it. That artwork may have partially disappeared, but many of Ememem’s other creations remain dotted throughout the municipality’s streets… some 350 and counting. Over the past six years, he has made a speciality of filling divots and potholes with multicoloured mosaics made from tiles of different sizes and different hues, arranged in striking…
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$175K anonymous donation to pay for Uvalde funeral services
UVALDE, Texas (KXAN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott explained he is “livid” just after he said he received misinformation about the functions leading up to the lethal mass taking pictures at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde. “Short remedy. Yes, I was misled. I am livid about what transpired,” Abbott reported. “I was on this pretty stage, and I was telling the community what experienced been instructed to me. I wrote down hand notes in depth what everyone in that room explained to me. The information I was supplied turned out, in component, to be inaccurate, and I’m unquestionably livid about that. My expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that…