The Moon Villages of South Korea
Kaushik Patowary
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 ...
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Somalia’s Hand Painted Storefronts
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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...
Ella & Pitr’s Giant Murals of Sleeping People
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2015
French street artist duo Ella and Pitr, from the city of Saint-Etienne, has created a name for themselves in the world of street art over th...
Auckland’s Utility Boxes Get Graffiti Makeover
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2015
Auckland-born artist Paul Walsh has been painting telephone utility boxes around his home city since 2013 with animal characters inspired b...
Exploding Anatomy Street Art of Nychos
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2015
Nychos is a street artist from Austria who creates highly imaginative “exploded-view” murals showing animals, humans and other characters i...
The Comic Book Route in Brussels
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2015
The Comic Book Route in Brussels is a path that takes you along several walls and buildings throughout the inner city of Brussels as well as...
The 5Pointz Graffiti Building in Long Island
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2015
5Pointz was an outdoor art exhibit space at 45–46 Davis Street in Long Island, New York City, where colorful murals were exhibited on the ex...
The Eye Deceiving Murals of Quebec City
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2015
In the last 15 years, a number of fresco paintings have popped up across Quebec City, becoming a real tourist attraction and a major compone...
Taiwanese Village Transforms Itself With Cartoon Murals
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2015
Three sisters have unleashed a new life into the streets of the small Taiwanese village of Huija with a series of colourful murals. The sist...
Mehdi Ghadyanloo’s Playful Street Art in Tehran
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2014
Iranian artist and designer Mehdi Ghadyanloo , with the help of the municipality, is slowly brightening up the city of Tehran one wall at a ...
Street Art in Lodz, Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2013
Over the last few years, the Polish city of Lodz, is slowly transforming into a permanent exhibition of street art in public spaces. It star...
Creative Street Art by OakOak
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2013
French street artist OakOak converts street objects, signs and other fixtures around his native city of St Etienne, France, into humorous s...
