San Telmo, the oldest barrio in Buenos Aires, is known for antique stores, milongas, cobblestone streets, traditional cafés and old school parrillas. A barrio where the retro-cool hardcore kids live in their high ceiling, historic apartments. My favorite thing about San Telmo? It houses some of the best street art in the city. Ditch the crowded San Telmo Feria, flocking around the B-level Tango street performers, and check out the great street art. Here are some of my faves….
Tags: Argentina, Art, Buenos Aires, graffiti, san telmo, street art













so ill be honest, i cant read a thing…but that street art is effing sweet!
Well Look it up no offense and you’ll understand it a lil more:D
Ditto dearexgirlfriend :)
(and I love your name!)
It’s not sweet – It’s just outstanding !!!
I love how it’s all unique in its own right, yet the whole scene seems to have a consistent voice. Very cool stuff…
Ditto what Mikalee Byerman said. Very cool. I love street art whether it’s on the pavement or on the side of a building.
i love street art. super dope. i hardly see any around me, maybe because it gets sand blasted down pretty fast. but i love the pictures.
yup. sand blasting shame.
Beautiful! Here in Toronto, the city is trying to clean up all the graffiti. If they do (which I somewhat doubt) it will take away so much of the city’s character!
LOVE IT! I collect street art photos, and focus on Bs.As. streets…I think the best street art there is actually in Palermo…yours are great photos!
Palermo has wonderful street art – really all over the city in each barrio there is a vibrant culture if you look out for it.
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I LOVE THE PICTURES! -What a great blog….Love the site. :-)
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its like soo happy! I wanna do that!!!
These are so vibrant ….changes the whole look of an old dilapidated building.
San Telmo is definitely on my list of places to visit. Great photos!
nice shots – i’m yet to properly explore San Telmo, at the moment I’ve jsut been taking pictures in and around Palermo, theres lots out there!!
palermo has a lot of good street art, so does villa crespo and colegiales
These pictures are so amazing :) I love the Hispanic culture and colors and people… everything!
i know bbz how old are u i am 15
awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!
thanks for sharing.
i’ve linked you. :P
Nice, nice work! I love those images. I just did a 5-part series on the graffiti art found in Detroit. If interested, it can be viewed here –> bbandm.wordpress.com
Charlie
Really interesting…very colorful and alive! Thanks for sharing, I know we shouldn’t glorify graffiti but if its there…
“The culture is in the street” – that’s what I read recently on a wall in a spanish city… And it’s so true, I think! Taking the graffiti away would mean destroying somehow art and culture… Great photos!
The art is interesting for sure, but I don’t like that they feel as though they can deface property that does not belong to them. Beautiful as it may be, it’s still wrong.
Graffiti art is nice as long as the property owners allowed it, otherwise a better photo would be of the graffiti artist getting his just rewards for damaging private property. Congrats on making FP.
The practice of street art in Buenos Aires differs from most places in the world in that the culture has a high tolerance — respect, even — for public art. That includes the government, the police and local businesses, the latter of whom often consider it buena onda (and good business) to snag a street artist to paint their façade.
All of the street art you see here in this post is at least tacitly approved of by the “dominant culture.” The artists painted in the daytime, more than likely, and without worrying too much about who might catch them.
The Paint Your Barrio project in Quilmes, Argentina, founded by French street artist Grolou, is a good example of the odd and uniquely Argentine collaboration between government, street artists, businesses and the people living in the barrio. (Web site seems to be down.)
So, come to Buenos Aires and paint!
nice!
how old are u husbun
They have a similar look. The colors are cool, a lot of greens. Though, some of them make me feel uncomfortable.
These are beautiful, I love it.
They have a similar look. The colors are cool, a lot of greens. Though, some of them make me feel uncomfortable.
Oh, man! I spent 3 months in Córdoba, last May-August, and only got a chance to visit BsAs for a 3 day weekend. This post makes me miss Argentina soooo much! I, too, have some cool pics of graffiti from my time there! Mostly from the campus at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, and the header pic on my blog here is from just outside the Estancia de Santa Catalina.
Check out el libro “La Voz del Muro” for 100 or so killer street art pics around BsAs.
thanks for the tip, i’ll have to check out that book
Some great stuff there, Buenos Aires seems like a pretty cool town!
great post man, maybe it would be appropriate to add the street-artist’s names as well, it is their artwork.. otherwise great pics and good selection of street art :) keep it up!!
these are beautiful. it is sad that there are a lot of people out there that are under the impression that this is destructive and that it is defacing these buildings… i think that in some cases (obviously not all but these are great examples) these buildings should consider that they are now a part of this living art form. great post!
I agree… most of the buildings in this post are already dilapidated
Those are all absolutely gorgeous. I love the idea of this, creating this beautiful art as a way to make something brighter. My favorite is the sixth one down. Stunning colors and shapes there.
me das ganas de volver a la Argentina¡! It’s been too long since I’ve been Buenos Aires… I lived in the province, about 3 hours from the city, for a year, and I haven’t been back since I left. Great pictures. They’re very much fun to examine.
Very cool! I can’t imagine covering that up.
Awesome!!!
Please come and paint my house too, I did not hear, until I said it first. Do I mean it?
wow amazing! i really really love your work! well done!
Great artwork !!
Thanks for the share.
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Great Graffiti !!
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This are really great pictures and the art work is great. Do you know who the artists are?
awesome! espectacular!
thats great!
muy bueno
I like number 8 and 11, thank you for sharing. -Q.
thanks for liking!
Great photos. Thanks for posting. Just wondering if you’ve seen any of the street art and murals in San Francisco and what you think of them. Again, wonderful photographs!
no, haven’t made it to SF in person but from what i’ve seen from photos, pretty impressive.
nice photos
Street art is an indication that imagination isn’t dead but very much alive in our world. Thanks for sharing these pieces!
Street art is great, isn’t it? Thanks for all the comments!
I love it!!!!!!
me gusta muchisimo!!
the writing is surely on the wall :-)
Really interesting art!
–Jim
estan buenisimas las fotos=) que lindo es bueno aires<3 ya sos famosa. awesome ah=D
I love all this art. It makes life LIVE. GOOD ON YA GUYS.
I love this! I’d like to get into graffiti (legally :P)
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Super cool pics. Graffiti rocks. The best graffiti I ever saw was in Berlin (bit cliched, I know) but the wall is simply covered and also in artsy fartsy Melbourne where every Tom, Dick and Harry seems to express themselves through the art of graffiti. Love the colour in your photos though, wish I had bothered to photograph all the good ones I have seen over the years!
nice picture,,,,,! good,,,,!
Que linda! Mi favorito es el uno con el pez, pájaro, cara y puño. The colors and detail are amazing!
Felicidades!
my husband belongs to ETC crew which is a graffiti crew. He joined when he was a younin’. After reading this I turned to him and said “ETC does not do graffiti, they do street art.” his response is “We are not street artists, we are freight car monsters…” hahaha…great post! :D
it’s amazing. I really luv art
Great post, and really nice shots! What a vibrant place to be.
Great! post me good. I like it.
After reading this I turned to him and said “ETC does not do graffiti, they do street art.” his response is “We are not street artists.
Love it. Street art reflects the people and their situation.
I’m an art and photography person. Love the photos. Brilliant.
wow that’s so cool!
This is AM-AZING !
Argentina is my favorite country ! Would love to go back again one day : )
I live in South Africa now close to Cape Town and one of these days I will go to downtown Cape Town and take photographs of the graffiti there and post it on my blog for people to see.
street art represents the mindset of people in the country,their cultural ideas…these streets would have been so life less without the art….love them!!!
Están super chulas las fotos. Creo que debería existir un tipo de turismo para ver el arte callejero. O que este viniera incluído en sitios de interés.
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si ya existe lorena! http://www.graffitimundo.com/
that’s cool. every city and town should be encouraged to use street art in this way. exposure to art on a regular basis contributes so much to people’s enjoyment of a place, in ways i don’t think many people even realise.
Good stuff !!
This is sick!
Wow! That’s pretty awesome arts street
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Very nice :)
lefuckinggit
wow, i wish i could someday walk into a street like that in our place :D
nice post!
Estas son las pelotudeces que le gusta a la gente
wew cool street art work
Esperemos que perdure,
que el arte nunca se acaba Felicidades!@
y gracias
saludos!
Some of the art should be on canvas and framed. I like them.
THIS ART IS VERY SAY!!
Great post! I wouldn’t mind living amongst the retro-cool hardcore kids. Excellent shots.
I’d love to live in an area like this! :-)
This is so different from all the other kinds of street art I’ve seen. Truly amazing, I love it!
Great pics! I think I need to slow down and enjoy the scenery more when I’m in and around the city. Thanks for helping me stop and smell the roses :)
Thanks for the Beautiful Post…
Very Inspirational Art
All the vibrant colors and graffiti! I absolutely love it!
Great post! I started documenting murals and street art for my blog about a month ago. So far it’s throughout New York City. It’s nice to see what people are doing around the world.
I am in love with graffitti art!!! This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
xo
Mindy
Awesome art and great blog! Reposted to “The Heart Of Art Blog” here on wordpress, cheers :0))
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I love how it’s all unique in its own right, yet the whole scene seems to have a consistent voice. Very cool stuff…
Nice! Really love it*
A great selection of San Telmo street art! I love BA’s street art scene; I’ve actually been covering it for Juanele (juanelear.com) and on my own blog (comoelpulpo.wordpress.com) in case you’re interested. Perhaps another neighborhood soon?
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