Archive for February, 2015

Art in Madrid’s Streets

Posted on February 17, 2015. Filed under: Art, Spain | Tags: Calle del Arenal, Calle del Arenal Madrid, European street art, European travel, Madrid, Spain, street art, travel, walking in Madrid, walking in Spain |

Yes, you are just walking along in Madrid and wham!  There happens to be some monumental piece of art right there.  Why not put an enormous lizard made out of CDs on the side of a building?  I wonder how they talked the people in those rooms to give up their windows.  Or why not install a bronze frog the size of a small house on the sidewalk? 

Here we are on Calle del Arenal, a huge pedestrian corridor that hosts many live art performances.  Madrid loses its stuffy capital city ambiance when you walk the streets and observe the creativity that permeates this place.