Time-Lapse Video of the Melting 'Middle Class' Ice Sculpture at the RNC

August 28, 2012 | Two artists, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, are making a statement at both parties' political conventions with "temporary monuments" to America's struggling middle class.  More

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