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<\/a>\nArt on the Streets<\/p>\n
CreditNicolas Asfouri\/Getty Images \u2014 Agence France-Presse
\nHONG KONG \u2014 Thousands of pastel Post-it notes, marked with messages of support for pro-democracy demonstrators, form a fluttering collage that snakes around the wall of a staircase outside Hong Kong government headquarters. Nearby stands \u201cUmbrella Man,\u201d a 12-foot-tall wood sculpture of a figure holding a bright yellow umbrella.<\/p>\n
Above one of the city\u2019s thoroughfares, where demonstrators have been camped out since late September, students have sewn together hundreds of broken umbrellas to form a giant canopy.<\/p>\n
The pro-democracy demonstrations that have occupied sections of Hong Kong since September have created more than political statements and traffic jams. The so-called Umbrella Movement has also produced an explosion of public art that has turned the protest sites into enormous outdoor art exhibitions. The art, pointedly political and often witty, has become as much an expression of the protest as the megaphone speeches and the metal street barricades.<\/p>\n
But reports that the city may soon clear the protest sites have set preservationists, historians and art lovers scrambling to figure out how to record and preserve the art for posterity.<\/p>\n
Because most of the art is still on the streets, the archiving is largely digital. Some digital renditions and objects are already running alongside the \u201cDisobedient Objects\u201d exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.<\/p>\n
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