[Ads-l] Horizontal murals

[Mark Mandel]

Nice. This time they didn't feel the need for an adjective, but maybe only
because "on street" does the job. In the headline, space constraints often
apply.

MAM

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 10:57 AM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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