Category: Street Art
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Berlin — A Great City for Art
Several years ago I decided I would stop taking photos when I traveled, or at best, take very few. It started on a trip to Versailles. We were going through the palace looking at things, and most of the time a young woman was traveling through at about the same speed as we were. Sometimes…
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Revitalizing Budapest
There is more to Budapest than how the Soviet and Nazi occupations have framed the conversation about Hungarian national identity that I wrote about in my post: Exploring the Nazi and Soviet Occupations of Budapest . Budapest, after all, because of its cheap beer (cheaper than water in some cases) and cheap flights within Europe, is…
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Art and Politics in Prague
Prague as a city is a work of art; everywhere you go you’ll find spectacular architecture. The dangerous part is as you walk around you can’t stop looking up, running the risk of running into other people, sign posts, and getting hit by a car. This was our second trip to Prague — the first…
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Street Art in Kraków
There is quite a bit of street art in Kraków, and you can see my photographs of them here. Our guide Pavel of Free Walking Tours (which I highly recommend) showed us around and give us some background on the works we saw. Most of the art, although not all, was in Kazimierz (the Jewish district) and a couple of pieces…
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Yes, But Is It Street Art?
One of the things we want to explore on our trip is street art. While we have been involved with art for many years, we only recently became interested in street art. So while we know something about it, our ideas about street art are still in the process of crystallizing, just as the movement…