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The Asia Society blasts the Taliban’s destruction of art in a PSA being made available this week from StreetSmart Advertising in New York.

The 30-second spot, narrated by 60 Minutes’ Morley Safer, shows footage of the demolition of the Bamayan Buddha statues from the third century. Safer’s voiceover explains, “You’re invited to see 460 other works of art they’ll never get their hands on.”

The idea came from StreetSmart founder and art director Peter Cohen and writer Jay Taub.



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