The Talking Walls of Buenos Aires - Google Cultural Institute. The Talking Walls of Buenos Aires A tradition of art, activism and popular expression.
The walls of Buenos Aires have been used as a tool for communication and expression for as long as anyone can remember. When thousands of clandestine abductions and murders took place under a brutal military regime, activists used public walls to raise awareness of the scale of the disappearances. Throughout the city's turbulent history art has been an essential tool for activism, resistance and communication. Berlin's Most Famous Mural to be Torn Down - artnet News. Google-adds-graffiti-to-its-art-portfolio. Photo PARIS — There’s a portrait of an anonymous Chinese man chiseled into a wall in Shanghai, a colorful mural in Atlanta and black-and-white photographs of eyes that the French artist JR affixed to the houses of a hillside favela in Rio de Janeiro.
These are among the images of more than 4,000 works included in a vast new online gallery of street art that Google is unveiling here on Tuesday. Called the Street Art Project, the database was created by the company’s Paris-based Google Cultural Institute. Using images provided by cultural organizations worldwide, some of which were captured with Google’s Street View camera technology, it includes street art from around the globe, including work that no longer exists, like the 5Pointz murals in Long Island City, Queens, or the walls of the Tour Paris 13 tower in France. In a sense, Google is formalizing what street art fans around the world already do: take pictures of city walls and distribute them on social media. Mr. Stockholm, l’Art vivant sous terre – Discordance. Galerie d'Art exceptionnelle, surnommée la plus grande du monde, le métro de Stockholm est riche de 90 stations revisitées depuis leur création par des artistes contemporains. Les lignes de métro de Stockholm sont relativement récentes comparées à celles de Paris.
Moins étendues aussi. Pourtant, si celui de Paris se caractérise par un style unifié, c’est moins le cas pour le métro de Stockholm. Bien entendu il y a les stations « historiques » de la ligne verte, carrelées sur les murs, la plupart construites pendant les années 50 et qui sont assez similaires les unes des autres. Mais dès le début de l’histoire de ce réseau, la volonté de faire de chaque station un lieu unique et d’y intégrer des installations artistiques a été très forte et perdure encore aujourd’hui. Ligne verte / Ligne rouge : Passé revisité. Ligne bleue: Mondes souterrains. Vrëten / Sundyberg centrum A propos de l'auteur. The most unusual metro stations and undergrounds in Stockholm -
I didn't realize that Stockholm is so creative in a way of arts. They really do have some beautiful underground decorations that I would like to see in person. Maybe one day I will. Until that day come, I will keep enjoying in these photos I decided to share with you. The Stockholm Metro (Swedish: Stockholms tunnelbana) is the metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. Since the mid 1980s, the Stockholm Metro has been seriously affected by graffiti. During the 1990s, the Stockholm Transit System (SL) started outsourcing security to private security firms, some of which have been accused of using unlawful methods, such as the use of plain clothes guards and heavy-handed treatment of vandals arrested, and even heavy-handed treatment of ticketless passengers trying to escape.
Loading... StreetMuseum iPhone app. The Museum of London has launched an iPhone app which cleverly brings its extensive art and photographic collections to the streets of the capital...
The free app, called StreetMuseum, has been developed with creative agency Brothers and Sisters and makes use of geo tagging and Google Maps to guide users to various sites in London where, via the iPhone screen, various historical images of the city appear - just like in the image above. OK, so here's how it works. You open the app and allow it to work out your current location. A map then opens showing you your position and also showing the locations of the various sites where you can view historic images of London - see screen below: If you touch one of the tags, a small window opens up to describe the location and also the date and author of the image - as above. Tap the screen to read info about the image tap again to remove the text from the image and feel free to enlarge it on screen just as you would any photo on the iPhone...