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Travel Picks: Top 10 cities for street art

Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:29pm IST
 
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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Some of the world's most creative artwork lives - often temporarily -- on buildings, walls, and sidewalks.

Travel website Travel and Leisure (www.travelandleisure.com) has come up with a list of the best cities for street art. Reuters has not endorsed this list.

"Street art can change your relationship to a place," said Marc Schiller, cofounder of WoosterCollective.com, a website devoted to street art. "It opens up your peripheral vision, so you start to notice things you didn't before."

1. Los Angeles

Some of Los Angeles' best spotting grounds are in La Brea, particularly North La Brea Avenue around Melrose Avenue and Beverly Boulevard. Banksy - easily the world's most famous street artist - has left his mark here in several spots just outside the Beverly Cinema. You might also see Warhol-style colorized photo portraits from relative newcomer MBW.

2. Berlin

In the 20 years since the demolition of the Berlin Wall, street artists have been steadily invading the city's easterly districts, particularly the neighborhoods of Mitte, Kreuzberg, and Friedrichshain where the longest-remaining piece of the wall still stands. Look for striking stenciled figures from artists Alias and Xoooox and the signature, spray-painted shaking fists of native Berliner Kripoe.  Continued...

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