We’re back for 2018- Our First Tour is This Upcoming Weekend

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Our first tour this year is coming up soon. Check it out: Boston Street Art and Graffiti Walking Tour (April)

This is the classic Boston tour, just with a new description:

Spend a couple of hours with an expert guide checking out some of the best street art and graffiti in the city. The tour focuses almost exclusively on large-scale, commissioned murals in highly visible, public areas. The goal of this tour is to shine a light on graffiti style murals and street art installations as they exist in the community and to explore the different aspects of what graffiti and street art mean in 2018.

Depending on the makeup and interests of the group the tour can focus on different aspects of these two related artistic movements.

This is a walking tour, consisting of a three mile walk. We meet at Starbucks on Huntington Ave and end up at Canary Square (435 South Huntington Avenue) in Jamaica Plain. This is a one way tour.

No transportation will be provided back to the start although it’s an easy trip on the 39 Bus, the Orange Line or short ride back to the start in a taxi or car-sharing service.

The tour runs in (almost) all weather. Heavy rain or a freak snowstorm will cancel with a full refund.

Our graffiti and street art photo collection You Can’t Win is avilable as an add-on to your ticket and will be delivered at the start of the tour. Every attendee receives a sticker pack.

NOTE: This tour requires 4 attendees to run. If there are less than 4 attendees signed up 48 hours in advance, the tour may be canceled with a full refund.

I’ll be listing several more tours this week, so keep your eyes on on our Twitter and Eventbrite Organizer page for the latest.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

I visited the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site today. It’s well worth the trip if you’re at all interested in Olmsted himself (he was the designer of Central Park, Prospect Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace and countless other beautiful landscapes across America) or landscape architecture in general. The (free!) tour was very interesting and covers the interior and exterior of the site.

If you’re really interested, you can also check out their archives on flickr. 90,000 images from the archive!

At the Olmsted Hour At the Olmsted Hour

At the Olmsted Hour

Around Boston: Congratulations to SRV

On the heels of my own visit, I’m pleased to see the new, Venetian style restaurant SRV win Best Italian category in Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston listing. We really enjoyed our recent visit. I can’t say it made me forget I was in Boston (my recent trip to Venezia is still to fresh in my mind) but our meals were phenomenal, the menu is true to Venice (see the squid ink risotto with cuttlefish and tuna belly in saor pictured below) and the all Italian wine list was top notch. Not pictured is the baby octopus from the Cicchetti menu, which was potentially the best thing I had all night.

We’ll be going again, for sure.

Tuna in saor

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Squid ink up in here

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This is on the Street Art Tour- One of the Most Visible Pieces of Graffiti/Street Art in Boston History

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This was one of the Justin Bieber “reveals his track listing in graffiti/street art commissions around the world” pieces. KEM5 and DEME5 did the work and, in addition to being able to do one of the most seen pieces in Boston history, I’ve always hoped they made a pile of cash for the work. Those guys are really good.

As for the visibility of this versus other pieces, I imagine that more people saw the Giant of Boston in person, but the Bieber piece would have gotten in front of a hell of a lot of fans in a very short time on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook.

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