Toynbee tiles
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The Toynbee tiles, also called Toynbee plaques, are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and three South American cities
Top: Large, colorful Toynbee tile found in downtown Washington, D.C. Bottom: Closeup of its bottom tab, apparently mentioning the Soviet Union, which had been gone for years by the time this photo was taken. ("As media U.S.S.R. and Fronts are against it.")
A Toynbee tile in New York City, 2013
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Justin Duerr
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Justin Duerr is an American artist, musician, and writer. A fixture of both the underground punk rock and outsider art scenes in Philadelphia for decades, Duerr is best known for his research into the
Toynbee tiles
…the originals and have red italic writing on them. In 2016, some tiles started re-appearing in Philadelphia. In a documentary film about the tiles, Justin Duerr assumes that "Toynbee" refers to the 20th century British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, and that "Kubrick's 2001" is a reference to the 1968 film 2001…
Duerr at his 2017 solo exhibition at Philadelphia's Magic Gardens
On the Heels of World War Five (2016), #26 in Duerr's interconnecting scroll series
Library of the Dolls (2017)
I Found a Hole in the Sky (2019)