What do you do with old bikes and stations from your bike share system? Montréal-based artist JUNKO turned them into this giant “BIXI” insect sculpture.
#cycling #biketooter #art #publicart #cities #montreal #bikeshare
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Burlington VT is so beautiful!
Sunset over Lake Champlain is breathtaking! And the pedestrian shopping street is great!
#BurlingtonVT #LakeChamplain #Lake #waterfront #PublicArt #art
#sunset
Sunday Brunch at Rough Hollow Grille
#PublicArt #naturephotograpghy #Birds
Listening to the rain hit the roof as we eat at Tacos y Margaritas in Bee Cave, TX
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Today, 20 July, is World Chess Day
Episode 2 of the Alasdair Gray Archive’s UNLIKELY OBJECTS MOSTLY looks at Alasdair’s chessboard & the part chess played in his practice, uncovering the game’s pivotal role in the making of his Hillhead Subway mural & the novel POOR THINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #PoorThings #mural #murals #publicart #Glasgow #Chess #WorldChessDay
At the Canongate Wall
“Stone suits the poetry. Or perhaps it’s the other way round. I think poetry suits stone, more than it suits paper, certainly more than it suits a screen. The poetry releases something latent in the stone.”
Kathleen Jamie visits the Canongate Wall in Edinburgh.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/at-the-canongate-wall
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #scottishparliament #publicart
Yee-haw, 26 July is #CowboyDay 🤠…
Bud Neill’s newspaper comic strips (1949–1956) are one of Scotland’s most notable contributions to cowboy fiction, featuring Lobey Dosser, the sheriff of Calton Creek; his 2-legged horse El Fideldo; & resident masked villain Rank Bajin
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lobey-dosser
#Scottish #literature #comics #comicstrips #Glasgow #20thcentury #lobeydosser #publicart #cowboy #cowboys
