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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Anonymous artist installs benches at remote bus stops

    LA has some 16,000 bus stops. But at many of them, you have to stand to wait. There’s no place to sit. One anonymous LA artist has designed and built specialized seats for bus stops.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Dec 5, 2018 • 1 min read

    LA has some 16,000 bus stops. But at many of them, you have to stand to wait. There’s no place to sit. One anonymous LA artist has designed and built specialized seats for bus stops. Art critic Carolina Miranda caught up with the artist as he was installing one of them.

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    Investigation into Les Moonves uncovers more cases of alleged sexual misconduct
    1. 0:00Mueller suggests no prison time for Michael Flynn in Russia probe
    2. 5:48Les Moonves may not get his $120 million severance
    3. 14:14Airbnb pulls out of the occupied West Bank
    4. 22:51In ‘The Feral Detective,’ survivalists resemble Trump voters
    5. 38:19Anonymous artist installs benches at remote bus stopsYou’re reading this
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