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Postcard from Palermo, Sicily: Artists color bombed-out and new walls

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Sadly, World War II bombers left a wake of damaged buildings behind them in Palermo, many still not renovated. Blank walls, even crumbling ones, are magnets for street art.

Some of these photos from our explorations are authorized works; some are enormous murals attempting to humanize housing projects; and others are found in random spots within the city’s labyrinth of narrow streets.

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Postcard from Malaga, Spain: Street Art, Part III

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Some street art is contentious; some is soothing. Some is found tucked away on tiny side streets; some scales tall buildings.

Here is the third installment of art encountered during wanderings in Malaga.

Shepard Fairey
D’Face

Perhaps T-V-Boy says it best in a series of murals painted this past spring: “Malaga Loves Art.”

T-V-Boy Malaga 2019