Archinect - News2024-05-06T04:22:26-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/93887707/egypt-s-street-artists-now-risk-even-more
Egypt’s street artists now risk even more Alexander Walter2014-02-19T15:22:00-05:00>2014-02-24T18:27:54-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6f/6f40720af11b79ac218146900413469f?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>As more journalists are being arrested in Egypt, artists are under threat as well. [...]
Political slogans and portraits of people who have died since the January 25 revolution are painted over by the government and replaced immediately by artists. The walls of Mohamed Mahmoud Street leading to Tahrir Square are layers of colorful murals over asymmetrical blotches of white paint. And despite its attempt to silence, the dictatorial white ironically makes a great primer for many of the artworks.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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