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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lois Beckett in Los Angeles

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

a woman lies in a fabricated prison cell
Nadya Tolokonnikova's 'Police State' art installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Photograph: Yulia Shur/Moca

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.

Police helicopters hovered overhead. Somewhere, through a loudspeaker, an officer delivered a tinny order to disperse.

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