Kategorie: North America

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USA: Streetart San Francisco – Chinatown – Urban Art at the Birthplace of Bruce Lee

Chinatown in San Francisco is the oldest and one of the largest Chinese neighborhoods in North America, known for its pagoda architecture and its historical significance as a center of Chinese immigration to the United States, which is still alive here today. It offers unique cultural experiences with restaurants, shops, temples, museums, teahouses, fortune cookie productions, and markets that celebrate Chinese culture and cuisine. San Francisco is also the birthplace of the famous Chinese-American actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, therefore many murals in Chinatown are dedicated to him and his wisdom.

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CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Metro Station Artworks – STM Collection – Société de transport de Montréal

The Montreal Metro comprises 68 stations and serves approximately 1.4 million bus and train rides daily. The first 20 stations were inaugurated on October 14th in 1966 and since then, the complex has continued to expand, but in addition to providing transportation, the metro network is also a vast art gallery with countless works, including wall paintings, installations, stained glass windows and sculptures. The transport department Société de transport de Montréal, or STM for short, curates and maintains these works.

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USA: Streetart Atlanta – Living Walls Festival and Urban Art in Martin Luther King’s city

Atlanta has around 510,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the US state of Georgia. The birthplace of African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King played an important role both during the American Civil War and during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Of course, there are also countless murals and graffiti in the streets and especially the local organization LIVING WALLS  is doing a huge contribution in making the city more colourful. Since its inception in 2010, over 500 public artworks have been created in Atlanta and beyond in collaboration with artists from around the world.

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CANADA: Urban Artist JADE BILODEAU – Geometrical Patterns in the Beauty of Nature

The Canadian artist JADE BILODEAU from Montréal deals with geometric symmetry and at the same time with those forms found in nature. Her motifs often show plants, flowers or animals, but these are abstracted in graphic styles. Especially blossoms and the representation of their structure can often be found.  She was and is very active in Montréal, but meanwhile also in other places around the world. We spoke to the creative artist in an interview about her art, how she started and where she wants to go.

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USA: Streetart Las Vegas – Urban Art Festival „Life is beautiful“ – Downtown Murals, Streetart & Graffiti

Las Vegas is located in the Mojave Desert of Nevada and is considered the casino Mecca for all gamblers. The city has a population of around 660,000, but attracts more than 40 million betting visitors from all over the world every year. The Boulevard Strip is lined with pompous motto casinos, from an Egyptian pyramid to the Grand Canal from Venice or a replica of the Eiffel Tower. But there are also fantastic urban works of art and large-scale murals around. Many of the great artworks were done during the annual urban art and music festival LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

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USA: Streetart Los Angeles – Melrose Walls – Graffiti and Urban Art Collection

Melrose is a neighborhood in Los Angeles around the eponymous Melrose Avenue, located on Santa Monica Boulevard on the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood and it ends at Lucile Avenue in Silver Lake. The area is a popular shopping, dining and entertainment destination in California. Surely you can also find famous urban artworks around here.

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USA: Streetart Denver – RiNo Arts District & Five Points – Crush Walls Festival

The RiNo in Denver is the short form for „River North Art District“ and like it says, this area is the main place for art and creativity in town. It is delimited by the four streets Blake Street in the North, Larimer Street in the South, Broadway Boulevard in the West and North Downing Street in the East. RiNo is filled with galleries, bars, cafés, craft beer breweries and restaurants, also part of the district is Denver’s oldest neighbourhood Five Points. Of course you can find plenty of streetart, graffiti, murals and art in general here. It’s a really cool place to go out. Some of the murals were made during editions of the fabulous CRUSH WALLS FESTIVAL, which is the largest urban art event in Colorado.

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CANADA: Streetart Montréal – Sault au Récollet – Pont Papineau Leblanc Graffiti Bridge

On the east side of the Papineau Leblanc Bridge in Montréal’s Sault-au-Récollet neighborhood is a legal graffiti wall, which is filled with great works. Opened in 1969, the bridge was one of the first cable-stayed bridges in North America and is part of the Quebec Autoroute 19, which connects Laval and Montréal across the Rivière des Prairies river. The entire Sault-au-Récollet district was declared a heritage site by the City of Montréal in 1992 and is well worth a visit. Check out the graffiti collection from the open spray spot at the bridge wall.

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USA: Streetart Raleigh – North Carolina Capital – Raleigh Murals Project & Downtown Raleigh

Raleigh was founded in 1792 and, with a population of 467,000, is the capital of the state of North Carolina. The booming metropolis with its big city atmosphere and southern charm offers a variety of cabarets and the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts is particularly worth a visit. The 10th Special Olympics World Summer Games were also held here in 1999. Of course, the city also has plenty of urban art to offer. Especially THE RALEIGH MURALS PROJECT has done a lot during the years and the DOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE provides a great art map.

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USA: Urban Art Alaska – Fairbanks – Plane Graffiti – The Fairbanks Aircraft – ANN-KRISTIN GÖTZ

The decommissioned Beech-18 adorned Davis Road in Fairbanks, Alaska, for years in its original paint scheme. In June 2024, it was transformed into a work of art that artistically captures Alaska’s natural forces in two different designs by the artist AKG (ANN-KRISTIN GÖTZ). The graffiti and fine-line elements are inspired by the Nordic-Arctic winter night and the hot summer days in the interior. Check out this great airplane artwork!

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