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Melbourne CBD’s best art laneways
As the year ends it’s a good time to reflect on the creative urban art scene in Melbourne. It has been an interesting year.
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Graffiti is not unsafe
Melbourne has a problem that’s way bigger than graffiti.
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Public vote will choose the 2023 pride tram
For the third consecutive year, a design-wrapped tram will travel in the annual Midsumma Pride March in 2023 and around the Melbourne tram network until the end of the year.
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Oh, the beautiful, the laneways
Fresh paint drips down the wall as an artist risks litigious and possible physical consequence. His friend stands at the front of the lane keeping an eye out for a ubiquitous threat. The spotter is flighty as the artist is taking longer than expected.
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Laneway management is shambolic
In a recent news article, the state government has come out and said that it will now protect important laneways in the city. I would like to ask which important laneways they would like to protect. I wonder if they can name one that hasn’t already been irreversibly corrupted.
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The problem with urban art
People really hate bad tags. It is something that has made legitimate and good street art and graffiti hard to navigate.
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Melbourne is unsafe and it has nothing to do with graffiti
If you have walked around the city lately you would be aware of two things: the homeless people that seem desperate and scary and the expensive attack the council seems to be launching against graffiti.
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I am afraid of police
When I was a kid, I was scared of the police – it’s something that was taught from my dad as we could never really afford good cars and my dad was constantly worried about getting a canary (defective car notice).
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Autistic artist empowers community through mural
At first glance, autistic artist Prue Stevenson’s mural in the heart of the CBD may appear to be a collection of bright, wavy lines with hand-painted messages.
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Let’s paint the city
When Howard Arkley painted a tram in 1980 for the Transporting Art project initiated by Victoria’s Hamer Government, it was edgy, experimental and an amazing initiative.
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Pasko Sa Melbourne: a Filipino Christmas for our seafarers
Tribunal knocks back redevelopment of Flagstaff House
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