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A Year’s Worth of Street Art

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Posted on Jan 18, 2012
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The livened-up monument in Sofia, Bulgaria, last June.

Did you see the one about the Bulgarian street artists who used a little color to repurpose a public monument commemorating the Soviet takeover of their country in 1944 into a cartoonish visual joke? That painted prank was washed off within days, but the memorable image figures among 106 that made the lineup of Street Art Utopia’s top images of 2011. Click here—it’s well worth another backward glance.  —KA

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flaco's avatar

By flaco, January 23 at 5:09 am Link to this comment

Nice to see that we are not brain dead yet

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By EmileZ, January 22 at 12:42 am Link to this comment

@ gerard

I would agree.

There is something about this art that at least shakes you out of your conditioning.

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By gerard, January 18 at 8:42 pm Link to this comment

It’s up to the artists to keep us all sane.  The politicians, the bankers and the preachers—all they know how to do is drive us insane.

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