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Living Walls featured in global street art project

By Suzanne Van Atten
June 10, 2014
050814 ATLANTA: Recent Living Walls paintings have done little to improve commerce or bring in new businesses on Georgia Avenue a block from Turner Field on Thursday, May 8, 2014, in Atlanta. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM

Credit: Suzanne Van Atten

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Credit: Suzanne Van Atten

Did you know there is a Google Cultural Institute? Me neither, but it's based in Paris and has launched the Street Art Project highlighting work from Israel to Argentina in online galleries. Naturally Living Walls, Atlanta's local nonprofit street art initiative, is represented with a gallery of 28 murals.

Check them out here. http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/living-walls-the-city-speaks

About the Author

Suzanne Van Atten is a book critic and contributing editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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