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Stalinist realism. We've all heard of it. Well, most of us anyway. It's an architectural style that still defines large swaths of urban territory across East Europe, parts of Asia and even Africa and Latin America. Wherever communism has set foot at least for a while, we see gargantuan concrete mastodons. We've talked about life in those monsters ( Read more... )

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The inhabitants of my city of Plovdiv have been noticing an ever growing number of donkeys being painted on walls, fences and garages all around town as of late. The tag that could be seen next to those masterpieces of grafitti art as called "Bane".

These quick and sharp caricatures are definitely adding some color and spirit to the city's streets ( Read more... )

These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place (like Tjentište, Kozara and Kadinjaca), or where concentration camps stood (like Jasenovac and Niš). They were designed by different sculptors (Dušan Dzamonja, Vojin Bakic, Miodrag Zivkovic, ( Read more... )

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