Sunday, 16-June-2024


I’ve mentioned, once or twice, how beautiful Vilnius is.

Literatu street is a great example of that – simply put, it’s a street with a ton of neat pieces of art put up on the sidewalls. Simple, elegant, and clean. An outdoor art gallery created in 2009, with 150 artists contributing their work (mainly small items, about 1ft x 1ft) that now hangs permanently around the street.

It’s a neat way to expand art, and to beautify a city… Similar to something I remember from Caracas, Venezuela, in 2011 where the government had hired artists to paint the construction barriers that were being put up around the city. A way to change the landscape from grey concrete to vibrant colors.

Little things like this, in my mind, make a really big difference to life in cities. I’ve seen it around a fair bit (think the electric boxes with paintings on them), but Literatu street is one of the only actual “gallery” styles that I’ve seen.