Clockwise from top left: Obama as the anti-christ, a reference to “vulture funds,” and a factory whose smoke stacks produce a world map
Stencil of Obama with an eye patch
Patti Fischli and David Weiss, “How to Work Better”
“Macro y Obama go home!”
Courtesy of Sophie Maes
Close-up of Macri wheatpaste
On the left, April 8, 2016, and on the right, April 23, 2016
Federico Garcia Llorca Mural on Lafayette and Canal
Alice Pasquini, “Portraits of Young Woman” in San Telmo
A memorial mural calls for an end to violence.
Appleton Pictures, piece including insulin bottles and a stencil which depicts a child injecting insulin.
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J.P. Bear
FREEDOM 2 CREATE
FREEDOM 2 CREATE
Mural. Bushwick, Brooklyn
Mural. Bushwick, Brooklyn
La pintura nueva en 118 E 1st.
Map 4: Income
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A building near Plaza Rosario Vera Peñaleza bears a call to assemble against police violence.
Posters of Eva Perón are applied on top of an existing piece.
The façade of a building near Maria Hernandez Park is entirely covered.
“Spot the difference.”
A single-color piece on Calle Conde
A spray paint piece on Calle Teniente Benjamín Matienzo.
Datasets collected on the website of CITYarts, Inc. and created on CartoDB
Joe Strummer Mural on the outside north wall of Niagara Bar in the Lower East Side
The original Joe Strummer mural in 2003.
RCN’s attempt to erase Chico’s “Loisaida” mural quickly backfired as the wall was covered in tags.
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Appleton Pictures, “Diabetes–Coming to a Child Near You”
The high line pedestrian walkway passes through a tunnel.
Tiered benches on the Chelsea high line provide a place to observe the traffic below.
Murals on the back of an apartment building are visible from the street below.
“Where is Santucho?” refers to the 1976 killing of Argentine Worker’s Part leader and revolutionary Mario Roberto Santucho.
Under the stencil of a figure holding a smoking gun, “In democracy, in dictatorship, the state tortures you.”
In Monserrat: “Guevarista Youth”
A storefront gate bears the names of four men of color killed by police officers between 2009-2014.
A shuttered storefront in the West Village boasts many layers of graffiti.
Ron English’s “Baby America” mural on the Bowery wall at the intersection of Bowery and Houston shows a young Hulk in the foreground of an American flag made from corporate parodies English has produced throughout his artistic career.
Graffiti artists have added to a mural reading “Never again” with phrases like “No more stealing,” “Good Peronism,” and “Media law now,” which references the demand for the reform of a 1980 law which regulated television and radio media licensing–a new law was passed by the Cristina Kirchner administration in 2009.
On Avenida Mayo: “Women’s rights are in our agenda—Legalize abortion now!!”
“Desaparecidas” is the term used to refer to those kidnapped and disappeared by the government during the Dirty War.
A stenciled raised fist found outside the Argentine parliament building.
Graffiti in Barrio San Nicolás commemorates the killing of activist Carlos Fuentealba at the hands of
The Casa Rosada is seen behind graffiti which reads, “May the rapists be afraid”.
“All American Temper Tot” – Ron English. Houston and Bowery Sts, Manhattan.
Images of street art were taken and submitted by students in New York and Buenos Aires. Click images to see a magnified view, and learn more about each piece by clicking its caption.
