“Preas” is a Rio graffiti writer who spans the gulf between tagging, known in Brazil as pixacão, and traditional beautifying street pieces. This is a recent sample of his work in the Catête neighbourhood. His tag can be seen on the top left of the wall above the painting. Pixadores are immensely unpopular in Rio because of the mess they make. The literal translation of the word means ‘scrawl’. At the same time they are the essence of the graffiti community and pixadores who achieve all city status are folk heroes to many young cariocas.

Women are Heroes will be in competition in Cannes. This is my friend JR’s film about his worldwide project to document the stories and paste the faces of women in India, Cambodia, Kenya and Brazil. This is really exciting news. Everything about this project so far has been amazing. Watch out!

I was lucky enough to catch this tropical mural on one of its last days. This painting by the genius twins from Sao Paulo, Os Gemeos, has been brightening up life for New Yorkers for the past 8 months and as of tomorrow will be no more…

Publication events will be held in the following cities, please contact Gabrielle Gantz at Penguin for more details ([email protected]/212-366-2248):

BOSTON, MA

Tuesday, March 16

BACK PAGES BOOKS

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289 Moody Street, Suite 101

Waltham, MA 02453

7PM
WASHINGTON, DC

Wednesday, March 17

BUSBOYS AND POETS

http://www.busboysandpoets.com/

2021 14th St. NW

Washington DC 20009

6:30PM

CHICAGO, IL

Thursday, March 18

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOKSTORE

970 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

1:00PM

PORTLAND, OR

Monday, March 22

POWELL’S ON HAWTHORNE

http://www.powells.com/info/places/hawthorneinfo.html?header=Sub:%20Hawthorne

3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd

Portland, OR 97214

7PM

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Tuesday, March 23

CITY LIGHTS BOOKSELLERS

http://www.citylights.com/

261 Columbus Ave

San Francisco, CA 94133

7PM