Alternate Score and Podium

Not all heroes wear capes.

The Walls Have Eyes

Walking unmindfully around the suburbs.

The Measure of a Man

Street artist Jorit’s mural of Nelson Mandela on a building in Florence, Italy, in honour of the first President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. As he once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”.

Frankenstein Underground

A punk translation of Leopardi’s “Times of trouble demand not tears but counsel”.

Untranslatable

An encounter along what’s left of a train track.

Wild ’n’ Wacky

A rap translation of Dante’s “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here”.

Eyes of the City

Graffiti and other artwork at an improvised street art gallery in Dircksenstraße in Berlin, Germany. Located on the walls of a commuter train viaduct, the site has attracted street artists for decades. Photo: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images.

High Times in Hard Times

Volunteer artists set up an alternative podium for the medal ceremony.

The Immeasurable Lightness of Being

A meter box door decorated with a graffiti portrait in Via dei Conti at Florence, Italy.

Up and Down

A decorated concrete bomb shelter in the southern town of Sderot, Israel. Photo: Ariel Schalit/AP.

Hand in Hand

Artist Saype poses in his giant land art painting entitled Beyond Crisis, Leysin, Switzerland Photo: Valentin Flauraud/EPA.

Secrets of Colours

La Candelaria district in Bogotá downtown, Colombia has been a global capital for any street artists since graffiti was decriminalised in 2011, making the neighbourhood look like an outdoor art museum. Photos: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

A boy admires some of the street art that adorns many of the Aida refugee camp’s walls just outside Bethlehem. Banksy famously created the image of a white dove with a sniper target on its chest on a wall not far from here. Photo: Murad Abusrour.

Roundtrip Ticket Home

A young girl looks at artwork attributed to street artist Banksy on a wall in the ferry port of Dover, England. Photo: Hannah Mckay/Reuters.

Flowers on The Wall

“The Flower Thrower”, possibly the most iconic of all Banksy graffiti, is on a wall on the side of a garage on the main road to Beit Sahour, Bethlehem, Palestine. Photo: davehoggan.com.

Beauty will save the world

Artwork © Exit Enter

日久见人心。
Rì jiǔ jiàn rénxīn.
Time reveals a person’s heart.

Exit Enter

I suoi omini neri, stilizzati, intenti a rincorrere palloncini rossi o a farsi trasportare in volo, e accompagnati da messaggi chiari e forti come “Free”, “Love”, “Resistance”, hanno lentamente e inesorabilmente invaso la città, spuntando a ogni angolo di strada, su porzioni di muri e manifesti pubblicitari, pali della luce e sportellini dei contatori del gas. Provocazioni urbane oggi diventate accessori di moda: le borse che Exit Enter, anonimo street artist fiorentino – ma i suoi lavori hanno ormai “contaminato” grandi città europee come Barcellona, Rotterdam, Lisbona, Bruxelles – ha disegnato in edizione limitata per il brand, anch’esso fiorentino, Damai, nato poco più di un anno fa e da subito impegnato in collaborazioni con giovani creativi. [Read more].

• Gaia Rau, Firenze, Exit Enter seduce la moda con la street art, la Repubblica.it, 12 febbraio 2016

Foto: la Repubblica.it

Foto: Marco Facchin

Salle d’attente

A French illustrator for children’s books by day, Solylaisse uses street art as an opportunity to express her soft, vibrant inner world. The artist’s whimsical, detail-filled work can be found on Quai 36 in Paris’s Gare du Nord, France. Photo: Roswitha Guillemin | Artist: Solylaisse.

Surviving Picasso

Street art by P183. Photo: P183/Rex Features.

Pavel 183

A Russian street artist who created a giant pair of spectacles from a streetlamp had been dubbed “the Russian Banksy”. Pavel Aleksandrovich Pukhov (August 11, 1983 – April 1, 2013), known as P183, created eye-catching works around Moscow. P183 revealed little about himself except that his name was Pavel, and that he studied “communicative design”. Pavel 183 died on 1 April 2013. The cause of death was not released.

• Moscow’s Banksy: the street art of P183 — in pictures, The Guardian, January 31, 2012

Oversized spectacles with one arm made from a lamp-post — the rest drawn out in snow. Photo: P183/Rex Features.

Street art by P183 — is the artist at the foot of the painting? Photo: P183/Rex Features.