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Tag: mural
La Perla Community Garden
Autumn Vines
Vegetable Mural
Former Mural
West 105th Street, New York.
Click any image to see them all enlarged.
Street Art
Brick Canvas
Still Point of the Turning World
This wall used to have a great trompe l’oeil mural on it that gradually gave way to peeling paint and being grafittied over. One day I was sad to see it being scraped off altogether. But I was pleasantly surprised to see a new work in its place the other day.
Faces
White House Tweeters
Empire Diner
One more piece of Chelsea street art before we go, this one significant because it’s above the now-defunct Empire Diner, scene of many an early breakfast following an all-night party.
Oye Como Va by Look Out Crew
Charm City
The Three Wïse
Mobilization for Change
I’ve photographed this mural and this garden many times before but always through the chicken-wire fence. This is the first time I’ve found the garden open and been able to photograph the mural straight on.
Peace Mural
Oblique Wall of Fame
Dos Alas
Another stop on our Jane’s Walk tour.
The Dos Alas Mural was created in 1999 by the Ricanstruction Network and the members of the youth organization Puerto Rico Collective. It depicts the portraits of Pedro Albizu Campos and Che Guevara.
The People’s Art
Modesto Flores Garden
The Modesto Flores Garden on Lexington Avenue next to the East Harlem Cafe was the next stop on our Jane’s Walk. Portraits of Frida Kahlo and her sister-in-arts, Julia de Burgos in the background.
La Vida en el Barrio
Next stop on our Jane’s Walk tour of East Harlem murals. This mural had a name, but I’ve forgotten what it was. Brick re-pointing has remove parts of the mural but there are hopes to restore it.
Las Reinas
Every year the Municipal Art society runs a series of “Jane’s Walks” throughout New York, honoring Jane Jacobs, the anti-urban planner. We chose to tour Lost and Found Murals of East Harlem and met here, at the site of a James De La Vega mural honoring Celia Cruz, not far from where I grew up and went to school, where many of my classmates lived in public housing in the streets we traversed.
Trompe l’Oeil Trumped
I’ve photographed this corner many times and I used to love the now badly peeling trompe l’oeil cube pattern. Alas, today I saw it being removed.