[Ads-l] Horizontal murals

[Dan Goncharoff]

I remembered this story from a few years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/nyregion/doyers-street-chinatown-mural-chen-dongfan.html

It uses the term "asphalt mural".

This article from 2009 uses "pavement mural":

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/muralist-uses-the-sidewalk-outside-the-sackler-gallery-as-canvas-20678724/

DanG


On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 11:51 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> From Arnold Zwicky's blog (https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/06/murals/)
> >>>>>
> *murals*
>
> A usage that was new to me, suddenly George Floyd-prominent in the news.
> Two examples, with the usage boldfaced:
> — “Watch: ‘Black Lives Matter’ *mural* painted on streets leading to White
> House”, caption for an NBC News video accompanying the story “D.C. Mayor
> Bowser has ‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on street leading to White House:
> The act was intended to honor protesters who had peacefully assembled
> earlier this week” by Rebecca Shabad and Dartunorro Clarkon on 6/5/20.
> — from the Valley News Live site (KVLY-TV, Red River Valley News in Fargo
> ND): “DC paints huge Black Lives Matter *mural* near White House”, with
> this photo from CNN:
>
> <img src=http://arnoldzwicky.s3.amazonaws.com/BLMMural.jpg >
>
> Murals usually go on walls. This one — surprise — is on a roadway.
> <<<<<
>
> I searched the ADS-L archive but found nothing relevant.
>
> MAM
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