URBAN ART
CULTURE
ART
BEST
SUMMER
EVER
HUFFINGTON
05.26.13
Where the Streets
Take Many Names
JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
BY LEIGH SILVER
NSTEAD OF roaming
through a museum, why
not take to the streets
for your art fix this
summer? Just as London claims
Banksy as its clandestine hero,
cities across the world have trumpeted their own national street
artists. Blu is the face of Italy’s
streets, and in Buenos Aires, where
I
urban art is legal with permission,
Argentine graffiti master Martin
Ron reigns supreme.
From Los Angeles’ iconic Shepard Fairey works to Icy and Sot in
Iran, we’ve compiled the best cities for street art around the world,
for all you globe hoppers out there
looking for a new way
to take in a city.
A photograph
posted on a
wall in Berlin
by French
artist/“photograffeur” JR,
on April 21,
2013.