Street art and street events thrive in Mexico

A website called Arte Callejero in Mexico City is all about celebrating street art and street events.

The site says it is aimed at improving the quality of life in cities.

This wall painting, next to a downspout, was taken from the website. With the country´s war on organized crime and druglords, Mexicans see military vehicles and heavily armed soldiers all over the cities and countryside.

Street art, graffiti, murals or whatever you want to call these works bring popular expression into a public place. Art isn´t just in museums.

This painting of a lady, with its elaborately painted frame, is on a busy pedestrian walkway in Mexico where it´s designed to make people stop, look, think and maybe be moved.

This is one of several examples from the website of paintings done in broken-down buildings in Monterrey. The artists evidently are trying to add something beautiful to something ugly.