Showing posts with the label Street Art

The Moon Villages of South Korea

Dec 17, 2019

After the Korean War ended in 1953, many war refugees and other impoverished people moved to the rapidly developing urban centers and began ...

Somalia’s Hand Painted Storefronts

Apr 12, 2019

Many businesses and shopkeepers in Somalia—which is one of the world’s poorest nations—cannot afford luxuries such as backlit signs and viny...

Letters of Utrecht: The Endless Poem

Nov 3, 2018

In the Dutch city of Utrecht, a poem is growing—one letter at a time, every week, for the past six years. Every Saturday, at around one in...

Michael Pederson’s Fake Street Signs

Oct 17, 2018

Sydney-based artist Michael Pederson creates small signs with humorous messages and tucks them all around his home city at places where you ...

Leiden’s Love Affair With Poems And Equations

Dec 7, 2017

Scattered throughout the city of Leiden, in The Netherlands, are over one hundred poems carefully hand-painted on the exterior walls of buil...

Lyon, The City of Murals

Nov 8, 2017

For the last four decades a group of muralists in the French city of Lyon has been transforming the city into a massive outdoor art gallery....

The Silo Art Trail in Australia

Aug 22, 2017

For more than a hundred years, grain silos doting the plains across the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, have defined the state...

The Murals of Sherbrooke

Jun 9, 2016

Over the last fifteen years, the city of Sherbrooke, in southern Quebec, Canada, has been trying to animate its old downtown area by creatin...

Hidden Poems on Boston’s Sidewalk Reveal When it Rains

May 24, 2016

For the last few months, Boston’s local artists have been spray painting poetry onto concrete sidewalks using biodegradable, water-repellent...

The Murals of Invergordon

Oct 30, 2015

Invergordon is a small town and port situated on the shores of the Cromarty Firth, in Highland, Scotland. Because of its natural, deep-water...