Mural Alert!

The Parade magazine in today’s Chicago Tribune has an article titled “Murals Across America”. “Travel Expert” Kristen Luna was given the assignment to choose one mural from each state. Some are featured in the magazine they all can be found on the website parade.com/acrossamerica.

Luna says it was hard to pick just one per state which is not hard to imagine since another insert in the paper Splash’s cover promises “Mural Alert! Our guide to the newest public art”. The article “Wall Pass” features some of the newest murals in Chicago. The article notes that, “Chicago is home to hundreds of street murals, from celebratory explosions of color to cerebral pieces that make you think. The selection is so vast, in fact, that Chicago recently launched a public mural registry. (on the city’s website Chicago.gov) It’s a searchable database for tourists and locals as well as a guide for city workers who sometimes are unable to differentiate between art and graffiti.” Last year there was a particularly unfortunate example of this when a piece of art the city had comissioned got painted over.

Here’s one I found last year when I attended the Intuit “Art Against the Flow” summit in the Fulton Market neighborhood.