Three tags and a butcher vigorously chopping pink sausages, on the back of buildings in Gresham Street, visible from North Street, the work of NOTA (‘none of the above’), Bore, and Raser.
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New street art on North Street by MELS (and specifically Viktor Sümegi) shows a ruby-lipped and ruby-crowned female face with sheep’s (?) horns. Replaces the 2012 ‘Lose Or Re-use’ piece showing a store-front in outline, later vandalised with ‘Fuck Art‘.
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The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man terrorises New York (from the movie Ghostbusters) in this 2013 Culture Night Belfast piece by davidcreative (David McClelland). The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was also the subject of a NOTA piece on Great Victoria Street/Downshire Place (Andrew Stewart).
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McElhatton’s and the Front Page/Fox’s Den has been sold and will be refurbished (Irish News). It’s not clear whether this mustache is a guerilla piece or at the impetus of the new owners.
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New street art by Hicks54 (Ed Hicks) on the side wall of Dawson’s Music in William Street, painted as part of Culture Night Belfast.
Previously: Hicks54’s California Dreamin’ piece and ‘in progress’ images.
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Hit TV series Breaking Bad ended last night after five seasons on-air. The popularity of the show is such that artist Visual Waste chose to make lead character Walter White the subject of his contribution to Culture Night Belfast. The new piece is right next to Visual Waste’s piece (which we called ‘The Mark Of Zorro’) from last year’s festival, in North Street.
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A new piece by Friz (previously: The Girl With The Flaxen Hair and Working On A Building) and Danleo (whose web site has a few photos of the piece in process; CNB has a photo of the sketched piece) in North Street, completed as part of Culture Night Belfast 2013, shows a bird fighting off a fox who wants her eggs, all in a mane of human hair. The building to the right was also featured on ExtrAct at this time last year: An Essay On The Necessity Of Art. Official title: Fight Or Flight
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“(It’s) All Good” on the north side of Cupar Way, near the Howard Street gate. Painted by Dublin street artist Maser (web).
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A cunning mouse is about to drop an anvil on an unsuspecting cat from the top of the electrical box at the south (city hall) end of Fountain Street in Belfast city centre. Red Ant looks on.
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Here is the central portion of the east wall of Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry frescoes in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rivera’s wife, Frida Kahlo, had a miscarriage during their time in Detroit and the infant in the image is a tribute to that loss.
Rivera, a communist, was invited to paint the frescoes by Edsel Ford, of the Ford motor company. He painted four walls of a great hall in 1932-1933, celebrating industrial and medical progress while also portraying its deadly uses, and mixing Aztec, Mexican and Christian imagery. The east wall is the first in viewing order, just as in church liturgies.
See also: Building The Model B (South) | Life & Death (West) | The Assembly Line (North)
Below is an (unaccredited) image of Rivera painting the outline (the “cartoon”) for this section of the wall, in 1932.
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