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The I-70 Sign Show

Anne Thompson, director of Bennington’s Usdan Gallery, was interviewed on KCRW Radio about her public art exhibition, the I-70 Sign Show, which displays works of contemporary art on surplus interstate billboards along 250 miles between St. Louis and Kansas City.

The I-70 Sign Show

“The potential meaning of the art almost always intensified when it changed context, becoming more poetic or political in relationship with the terrain, architecture, and surrounding billboard messages,” Thompson says.