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Art with wings

21 Thursday Nov 2019

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Art with wings, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of several murals painted over the last three years as part of the Beltline Urban Murals Project.

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Blended into reality

19 Tuesday Nov 2019

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Blended into reality, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Part of an art installation meant to be experienced with the aid of augmented reality, painted on the side on a building along Centre Street North.

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Friendly greeting

18 Monday Nov 2019

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Friendly greeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

From some art installed on the fence surrounding St. Joseph Elementary and Junior High school in Calgary.

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Family of Man

16 Saturday Nov 2019

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Family of Man, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Part of a sculpture known as The Family of Man, outside the former headquarters of the Calgary Board of Education in the city centre.

This is the second home for The Family of Man, with its second name. This piece of art was first called Brotherhood of Mankind, and it was originally part of the British pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal.

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Luck, fortune and longevity

09 Saturday Nov 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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Luck, fortune and longevity, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This is a portion of a mural, hidden away in a back alley in Calgary’s Chinatown that’s filled with more art like this.

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Things are not as they seem

07 Thursday Nov 2019

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Things are not as they seem (1), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Van Gogh Observes, a sculpture by the late Canadian artist Joe Fafard, is installed outside an art gallery along 4th Street S.W. in Calgary.

From afar, the shadows in the work struck me as being a little odd, so I walked up to it for a closer look. Imagine my surprise when I figured out what was going on!

Things are not as them seem (2), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Musical capsule

05 Tuesday Nov 2019

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Musical capsule, Calgary, Alberta,Canada

This is one of a two capsule-shaped pieces of public art hanging around Calgary’s city centre that I’ve spotted over the last week or two. Wondering how many more there are lurking around town …

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Lion overlooking the city

01 Friday Nov 2019

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Lion looking over the city

One of the lion sculptures that originally adorned Calgary’s Centre Street Bridge was recently restored and relocated to nearby Rotary Park. Here it is in all its glory, as seen last weekend.

You can find another of these restored lions at the front entrance of the Calgary Municipal Building, the name of the modern portion of the city hall complex.

There are still lions on the Centre Street Bridge today, but they are replicas installed in the early 2000s.

From what I’ve read in the past, it appears all these lions are themselves scale models of the lions at Trafalgar Square in London.

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Horse race

03 Thursday Oct 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Canada, montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Course de chevaux

A mural in the Notre Dame de Grâce neighbourhood, seen during a trip to Montreal earlier this year.

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Return to the upside-down church

20 Friday Sep 2019

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Return to the upside-down church, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I haven’t seen this piece of public art since it was installed in Calgary’s Ramsay neighbourhood years ago. It now lives in East Village.

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