The street art collective taking back Dublin’s walls
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That's all fine and good if you can paint fancy murals like that. My city is covered it street art, and it's all just kids boringly writing their tags.
If anything the state could incentivize certain property owners to allow their alleyways or other areas to allow graffiti. Since the artists aren't going to stop... so you might as well create positive environments for them.
...Just like drugs.
Though formalized and approved vandalism is so very millenial as well, legitimize the protest by calling it art and make a few vandals rich by painting slogans the elite find friendly. It's not a bug, it's a feature!
All this wonderful art greets me on the way to the office every morning - fabulous!
TBH the greenway alone is worth a visit. Wife and I are contemplating moving there. Next time we go I'll check out more street art.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/nyregion/5pointz-graffiti...
I'm all for street art but this is getting a bit ridiculous when the gov starts deciding which property owners can and can't decide to have murals painted on the side of their buildings.
Melbourne has an absolutely amazing street art scene. I'm not sure how they managed to cultivate it, so that it isn't just mindless tagging all over the city (like my hometown).
I used to shrug off street art as a serious art form, but having spent more time with creatives recently, including several graffiti artists, I've come to really appreciate it. If a city tries to curb legitimate street art, as opposed to tagging and vandalism, then all a city will have is tagging and vandalism.
Grey Area does appear to be a non-commercial (if self-promotional) project.
I'm also surprised the Maser Repeal mural hasn't been mentioned, as it's a similar story: this is a mural that was commissioned by a theatre in Dublin on the theatre's wall in support of the abortion referendum campaign. It was first removed due to a lack of planning permission; after they acquired proper planning permission it was later removed after a complaint by the charity regulator that it violated the theatre's stated charitable purpose and would lose them their charitable status. It finally got a third iteration on the wall of Amnesty International Ireland nearby.