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Daily Street Art: The NYT covers Berlin graffiti

Yesterday's New York Times travel section had an interesting piece about graffiti and street art in Berlin. From the article:

"Nearly everywhere you go, from the cafe-lined streets of Kreuzberg to the leafy schoolyards in Grunewald, hastily drawn “tags” stream across the sidewalk and crawl up the side of buildings, in an elaborate zigzag of cartoonish graphics, puffy letters, photo-like wheat pastes and bold stencils. Parts of the city look as splattered as a New York City subway car from the 1970s.

And it’s not just no-name graffiti writers who are contributing to the visual assault. With no shortage of vacant buildings, weedy lots and creative nomads, Berlin has become a blank canvas for graffiti artists far and wide, turning the German capital into arguably the most “bombed” — slang for graffiti-covered — city in Europe."

Catch the video interview with Berlin street artist Ali here, read the rest of the article here, or enjoy a collection of Berlin street art photos I've assembled below, via the Global Urban Art Pool.



Photos by K!WA.


Warhol bananas, as mentioned in the NYT. Photos by nolifebeforecoffee.

Photo by LoisInWonderland.


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2 Comments

  • Mauricio Mcbride said:

    this blog is honestly good. When I have to find a room in Berlin, I mainly use <a href="http://berlinshotel.com"> this link </a>. I'll surely read your next story.

    March 5, 2008 4:09 PM
  • jollyroger said:

    HOW DO YOU DO…

    BEING A BERLINER

    Wanna swastika shaped beer mug?

    Like climbing walls?

    Stay in the UK

    History, lissen

    Right, There’s this place it’s like 1,000 miles away, yeah.  It’s called Jeremy or Grr many or whatever.  N innit is people who live like proper happy in-dare.  Yer Germanans yousta have this war cos they were all mentals, day got all deese cool badges n moustaches n tings n they wannid ta show all dem world em, safe.  But it wernd n we all didn like dat dutty bling so we battered them, gangsta style. Int end we made em build a pukka wall but they dealers wannid to deal boths sides of it so day paid David Hasselhoff to knock it down, boo ya. But thing is, now these Shermans, they all happy, but we keep talking about them moustaches nt guns, which they don’t like.  Dem Gergans think we’re living int past wit house musik, they’re all techno eds and they is right. Cos worlds moved n dat, n we don’t know it.  Yoaw, Peace.

    ...more at lifestyleguides.blogspot.com

    March 7, 2008 11:16 AM

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