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  1. Found in my RSS Feeds: the The Eleventh of September. This site was first launched in 2006, went offline eventually, and was brought back online recently. “The Eleventh of September is a memorial by Tape Art. The artists created 490 drawings of life-sized figures using the temporary medium of tape. Each figure is dedicated to one person killed on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/the-eleventh-of-september/
  2. Clear Creek Courant: Bear-proof trash cans in Downtown Idaho Springs are alive with pictures of local history. “The trash cans in downtown Idaho Springs are barely recognizable, as such, following a city project to incorporate our history on an unlikely canvas…. The historical pictures depict the people, places, and landmarks from a century ago that are the basis of our heritage and how this […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/clear-creek-courant-bear-proof-trash-cans-in-downtown-idaho-springs-are-alive-with-pictures-of-local-history/
  3. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  4. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  5. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  6. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  7. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  8. 15 Sculptures You (probably) Didn’t Know Existed

    A fork in a lake. A shark in a roof. A portrait hidden inside fifty steel columns. These sixteen sculptures use cliffs, shadows, water, buildings, light, and even the viewer’s position as part of the work. Some are permanent landmarks; others travel or were created as temporary installations. 🎶 “Mélodie oubliée” — By Luo Li Rong In this workshop photo, Luo Li Rong uses a torch on the bronze surface of Mélodie oubliée. The finished work is 205 cm tall and weighs 250 kg, […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/08/26

  9. Headed into downtown New Bedford to check out the newly-unveiled statue of Herman Melville by sculptor Steff Rocknak today, since I wasn't able to sneak out of work for the unveiling itself.

    #photography #newbedford #massachusetts #publicart

  10. Toronto’s largest park in a generation just got bigger: Biidaasige Park opens 10 new acres of waterfront public space

    Waterfront Toronto Additional waterfront parkland opens on Toronto’s newest island, marking a major milestone in one of North…
    #Canada #Toronto #BiidaasigePark #Indigenouspeoples #MillenniumPark #publicaccess #publicart #publicspaces #waterfrontrevitalization #WaterfrontToronto
    europesays.com/canada/142344/

  11. Guten Morgen und einen erholsamen Sonntag! 😀 👋

    Passend zum #SilentSunday heute zwei ungewöhnliche Stühle aus der katholischen Kirche St. Bonifatius in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel. Die beiden Kunstwerke stehen etwas unbeachtet an der Kirchenwand, über ihre Herkunft war leider nichts herauszufinden.

    #hamburg #kirche #church #kunst #kunstwerk #art #artwork #artphotography #skulptur #sculpture #fotografie #photography #Photographie #foto #publicart

  12. A quotation from George Orwell

    Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably writes — and less directly this applies to all the arts — about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be the truth. But no government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1944-10-13), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/42525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #censorship #government #patronage #sponsorship #truth #writing #publicart #funding #politics

  13. A quotation from George Orwell

    Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably writes — and less directly this applies to all the arts — about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be the truth. But no government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1944-10-13), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/42525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #censorship #government #patronage #sponsorship #truth #writing #publicart #funding #politics

  14. A quotation from George Orwell

    Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably writes — and less directly this applies to all the arts — about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be the truth. But no government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1944-10-13), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/42525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #censorship #government #patronage #sponsorship #truth #writing #publicart #funding #politics

  15. A quotation from George Orwell

    Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably writes — and less directly this applies to all the arts — about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be the truth. But no government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1944-10-13), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/42525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #censorship #government #patronage #sponsorship #truth #writing #publicart #funding #politics

  16. A quotation from George Orwell

    Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably writes — and less directly this applies to all the arts — about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be the truth. But no government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1944-10-13), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/42525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #censorship #government #patronage #sponsorship #truth #writing #publicart #funding #politics

  17. You can view the #Ravensong war #canoe & symbolic #paddle #PublicArt at #NIWRA. It's beside the big turtle pond.
    niwra.org/

    Bill Helin is of #Tsimshian / #Norwegian decent and is a member of the Tsimshian Nation, born and raised in the Northwest Coastal community of Prince Rupert, BC. His father was Arthur Helin, his Grandfather Henry William Helin, was Chief of the Gitlan Tribe, and his Grandmother Maud Helin, was Chief of the Gitgeese Tribe. Bill spent many hours listening to his grandmother in wonder, as she told him many Legends of the Tsimshian People. By the time he was three, he was already drawing and it wasn't long before he was amusing his family, friends and teachers with caricatures and cartoons. For the most part Bill is a self-taught artist. He learned from books, and was soon mastering techniques such as three-dimensional forming, called repousse. In the 1980’s Bill was sponsored to go to K'San, BC's famous #IndianArt and Carving School in Hazelton. In February 1988, Bill attended the renowned Gemology Institute of America in Santa Monica, California, completing advanced courses in gold smithing and gem setting. Today he lives and works from his studio/home on Vancouver Island.

    Bill spent most of his career, which started in 1979, carving traditional Tsimshian wood carving, jewelry and paintings. His art has evolved from creating large wood projects such as a 40 foot long Ravensong Canoe in 1993 and working on the world’s tallest totem pole with Richard Krentz in 1994, to illustrating children’s story books and working on many animation projects. Other projects include working with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to design three mission patches as well as some education materials.

    Check out his website:
    billhelin.com/

  18. 45 Cats – Purrrrrfect Street Art Pieces

    Cats have a special talent for taking over cities. Street artists clearly love them just as much as we do! This collection shows how many forms cat art can take in public spaces. We have gathered giant lifelike murals, glowing paste-ups, sculptures, stained glass, graffiti stickers, painted rocks, and snowy little interventions. Some of these cats hide in boxes. Others stretch across entire buildings. A few only need simple graffiti lines to steal the scene. Scroll through our ultimate cat […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/04/23

  19. Zhanar Bereketova, “Elastics”, 2023, public art at Almaty ★ Russia/Qazaqstan ★ 98mag.kz/gorod/kak-proshyol-arinstagram.com/acoolblackandwhi #ZhanarBereketova #contemporaryart #publicart #minimalart #elastics #artfests #ArtbatFest #Almaty #strengthofmaterials #RichardSerra #Qazaqstaniartists #2020s

    Полусогласованный (или квазипартизанский) минималистический паблик-арт в Алматы. За пару лет до этого художница натягивала что-то такое же флуоресцирующее в винзаводовских Открытых студиях памяти А. Салаховой.

  20. Did They Make It Beautiful? (8 Photos)

    A floating boat, a cafe, and a card game. 8 murals that are better than reality? We are skipping the random splashes of color today. These artists have created detailed scenes that replace the grey concrete entirely. From Patrick Commecy’s famous architectural illusions in France to a candid moment of friendship in Spain, these 8 artworks are beautiful! More: Amazing Art (8 Photos) 🌉 1. “Au fil de Loire” by Patrick Commecy in Brives-Charensac, France This is not a view of the […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/01/23

  21. Nature Meets Art (22 Photos)

    Mother Nature is the ultimate artist, but sometimes she needs a little help from her friends. These 22 pieces show what happens when human creativity and the natural world collide. There is something magical about the moment a mural or a sculpture stops being a separate object and starts to breathe with its surroundings. We’ve gathered 22 stunning examples of street art and public installations that use real trees, flowers, stones, and even the earth itself to create something […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/01/19

  22. Fun With 3D (8 Photos)

    Your brain is about to play tricks on you. These 8 artworks prove that sometimes, a flat wall is just a suggestion. We’ve all walked past a boring brick building, but these creative geniuses see something entirely different. Using the magic of anamorphic perspective, they’ve turned gray concrete into giant creatures, cozy kittens, and mind-bending architectural illusions. Prepare to do a double-take at these 8 incredible 3D masterpieces. More: 3D Masterpieces (18 Photos) 1. It’s All […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/01/09

  23. When Nature Become Art (10 Photos)

    When the urban landscape breathes and the elements become the brush, street art transforms into something living. While most see a cracked wall or a wild bush, these artists see a canvas waiting to bloom. In this collection, we explore moments where the boundary between human creativity and the natural world completely vanishes. From giants grazing on apartment blocks to delicate stone spirits waiting for the tide, these 10 photos prove that the best canvas isn’t always a flat […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/01/07

  24. A Sunlit Afternoon on the Wall

    This is me standing on the old walls of Cork where I took this photo in Bishop Lucey Park yesterday afternoon. The sun had already started to head to the horizon and it wasn’t even 3pm, but it did light up the mural on the wall and placed the ground in front of me in shadow.

    For many in Ireland, November is firmly in the winter months of the year. It seems to be a traditional Irish/Celtic thing because Met Éireann uses meteorological seasons which classify September, October and November as autumn.

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    #afternoonLight #architecture #autumn #bishopLuceyPark #civicPride #communitySpace #contemporaryArt #cork #culturalHeritage #culturalSpaces #historicWalls #ireland #irishCities #mural #openSpaces #photo #photography #publicArt #publicRealm #publicSpace #streetArt #streetPhotography #urbanRegeneration

  25. How Clever (10 Photos)

    This collection brings together smart and surprising ideas from different places: a Doggie Stick Library, a painted illusion in Indiana, a skull pushing through a wall in an abandoned site, a fragmented traveler sculpture in Italy, an octopus mural in Vancouver, a deep 3D piece in Mexico, a small Oakoak intervention in France, a full-building ship mural in Brussels, a geometric bench in Luxembourg, and a tiny creature scene hidden in a sidewalk crack. More: Clever Signs (9 Photos) 1. Doggie […]

    streetartutopia.com/2025/11/15

  26. Almost Too Cute (9 Photos)

    From hand-painted stone cats and giant farm dogs to tender murals and tiny chalk critters, these charming works show how artists around the world bring warmth and whimsy into everyday spaces. Each piece captures a different kind of cuteness — natural, playful, or poetic — in unexpected corners of our shared world. More: Too Cute (10 Photos) 1. Painted Cats on Stones Six smooth stones are transformed into lifelike cats, each hand-painted with unique fur patterns and expressive eyes, […]

    streetartutopia.com/2025/12/10

  27. 3D Art By Odeith (20 Photos)

    Diving Into the World of Odeith’s Anamorphic Graffiti Portuguese street artist Sergio Odeith, also known as Sérgio Odeith, has gained international recognition for his jaw-dropping 3D graffiti pieces that defy the limits of perception. In this blog post, we’ll explore 20 of his most astonishing works and delve into the world of this master of illusion. 🔗 Follow Odeith on Instagram Odeith’s Background and Style Odeith began his graffiti career in the 1980s, honing his skills on […]

    streetartutopia.com/2025/11/04

  28. Echoes of Us (8 Photos)

    From Georgia to France, Italy to Colombia — these walls hold the quiet poetry of human life. Each mural captures a fragment of us: shared glances, daily gestures, and moments that linger long after the paint dries. This collection celebrates artists who turn façades into living portraits of memory and connection. More: Absolutely Beautiful (8 Photos) 1. 1900 Street Scene — Artist in Northern Chile A façade transformed into a turn-of-the-century street, complete with shopfronts, […]

    streetartutopia.com/2025/10/12

  29. Urban Magic (9 Photos)

    From surreal murals reaching for the moon to playful chalk illusions tucked between rocks, these nine works transform ordinary streets and walls into scenes of wonder. You’ll find dreamlike portraits in Peru, clever perspective tricks in France and South Africa, and bold characters in glowing glasses. Here’s a tour through nine pieces of urban magic. More: Absolutely Fantastic (8 Photos) 1. Fragile Balance — KATO in Estepona, Spain A mural of a young woman climbing a ladder to reach […]

    streetartutopia.com/2025/09/27

  30. Love Is Everywhere (12 Photos)

    From underwater kisses in Spain to playful chalk mice exchanging hearts, street art has a way of making romance visible in unexpected corners. In Melbourne, Disney princesses share a kiss, while in Italy a couple hides under a red umbrella. This collection takes us from Cologne to Baltimore, from painted hearts on walls to murals where nature itself joins the story. More: Love! (8 Photos) 1. Underwater Love — Anna Repullo Vique in Torrent, Spain A large mural of two lovers kissing […]

    streetartutopia.com/2025/09/28

  31. Love Is Everywhere (12 Photos)

    From underwater kisses in Spain to playful chalk mice exchanging hearts, street art has a way of making romance visible in unexpected corners. In Melbourne, Disney princesses share a kiss, while in Italy a couple hides under a red umbrella. This collection takes us from Cologne to Baltimore, from painted hearts on walls to murals where nature itself joins the story. More: Love! (8 Photos) 1. Underwater Love — Anna Repullo Vique in Torrent, Spain A large mural of two lovers kissing […]

    streetartutopia.com/2025/09/28