A homegrown mural tradition reveals a San Francisco neighborhood's true colors.
This is the sign post for what you're about to experience. An alley unlike any other.
The wall along Wylie Avenue, on the south side of the Krog Street Tunnel in Atlanta's Cabbagetown and Reynoldstown neighborhoods, has long been a canvas for public art, graffiti and tags both petty and artful. Late last year, someone with an airbrush came in (on whose dime I don't know) and painted a holiday mural at the mouth of the Krog Tunnel, letting everyone know that this was, in fact, a place for public art (both good and bad), and that the local neighborhood was embracing the space.
An odd mural of the origin of the telephone on the side of the phone company. It even features the Telstar Satellite!
Italian photographer Tina Modotti, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, German painter and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz, African-American sculptor Elizabeth Catlett grace a garage door at 86 Balmy Alley. Mural by Mary Nash.
A Central America-themed mural from the 1980s stands beside a more recent graffiti-style piece, while Tibetan prayer flags wave in the backyard.
In this 2004 mural by Joel Bergner, a Salvadoran village is still haunted by memories of the 1980s civil war.
Ireland is a nation of spectacular wall murals, enromous works of public art that capture the best and worst of the country's history. The murals of Free Derry, in the northern city of Londonderry, are a chilling reminder of the country's divisive past and unsettled future.
Public art on the wall of a Mission St. building, picturing Elvis and a three legged reptile, among other various characters.