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Hyperallergic5y
What Cookie Monster Can Teach Us About Art
Cookie Monster in Metropolitan Museum of Art! Me going to find great painting of something important ... control — one mustn’t always eat cookies — but so much of Sesame Street’s ...
Artnet4y
After Destroying Peoria’s Internet-Famous Cookie Monster Mural, the Landlord Will Commission a ‘More Appropriate’ One to Replace It
At the center of the drama is the question of who paid local artist Joshua Hawkins to paint a Soviet art-style mural ... Something to wash the cookies down with.” If Cookie Monster doesn ...
Artnet4y
Impersonating a Property Owner, a Man Paid an Artist to Paint a Cookie Monster Mural in Peoria. The Town—and the Internet—Have Questions
Since the artist first shared his account on Facebook, the case of the Cookie Monster ... the Sots Art movement of the 1970s. “It was a bit of a weird image, but some of my paintings are kind ...
USA Today10y
Cookie Monster steals the show in PBS special
NEW YORK — Sitting next to the cobalt creature known as Sesame Street's Cookie Monster ... no eat the paintings. They very tempting," says Cookie, voiced by David Rudman. Since making his ...
Gizmodo4y
The Mystery of Illinois’ Short-Lived Cookie Monster Mural
“We’ve got a few murals in Peoria…but I didn’t mind painting ... s Cookie Monster as a Bolshevist icon. It played on classic art from the Russian Revolution, saying “Peace, Land, Cookies ...
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Mysterious stranger poses as Illinois building owner to commission Soviet-style Cookie Monster mural
Joshua Hawkins still has no idea who hired him to paint a mural of the Cookie Monster on a commercial ... "Peace. Land. Cookies." "I asked him for the backstory, and he just said, 'Well, this ...