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Which Paris neighborhoods have the best graffiti?

  • Which Paris neighborhoods have the best graffiti? I'm in town for a few days, exploring, and while the entire city is blessed with some really nice handstyles, stickers and throwies, I'm looking for more in the way of huge, colorful pieces, creative wheat-pastes and rooftop burners. Where can I get the most bang for my walking buck? I've seen http://ask.metafilter.com/119715/Tag-It-Mark-It-Find-It, but I'm hoping to catch some more concrete answers, in the vein of http://www.londonerseye.com/best-graffiti-spots-in-london/, which really helped me in London.

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    Le Marais Is where I've seen the best stuff - but last time I was there (late Feb) it had been cleaned up a lot - to the point that monkey man and myself were kind of nervous putting up some wheat pastes that we we were shooting for wedding announcement photos. We got two up, although one was down about an hour after we walked back, but that was right on the river. Go off the beaten path around there and the Latin Quarter, and you'll see some nice stuff, including a few space invaders and space invader knock offs.

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Yeah, Bellville. Head to http://www.laforgedebelleville.fr/ and wald around. Pretty much every neighbourhood has amazing street art, though. When I was there I did many outings where I went to go find some Space Invader piece (they are well mapped), then just walk around the area seeing what else was around. More info.. See http://www.spottedbylocals.com/paris/street-art-walking-tour/. You might also learn something browsing the http://www.flickr.com/groups/paris-streetart/. There's a map view of the 10,000 photos, it's also a good place to ask your question.

Nelson

Ride the subway

dripdripdrop

Fat Cap has http://www.fatcap.com/city/paris-1.html Outer banlieus have more than inner arrond.

Ideefixe

judith

The Marais has the *most adorable* graffiti I've ever seen. Like, pastel drawings of cute things on watercolor paper, put up with thumb tacks. Or things like http://www.flickr.com/photos/skazat/3992776125/: Moi, si j'étais un homme je sarais capitaine d'un bateau vert et blanc. Awwwwwww. http://www.flickr.com/photos/skazat/3998974029/in/photostream/ everywhere, though.

alex_skazat

I can't say if it's the best or not, but I really like the graffiti in the Buttes aux Cailles (and while you're there, eat at Chez Gladines; I just got back from eating there tonight).

Dr. Eigenvariable

Definitely Bobigny which is just outside of Paris. The absolute best way to spend a sunny day in Paris is to rent a bike and pack a picnic and cycle out there along the canal. http://grrrlweinparis.tumblr.com/post/1238651739/graffiti-jam-pics-bobigny-block-party for a taster.

hazyjane

You see some pretty good stuff that you'd miss from the street if you look out of the windows of the line 2 metro when it's overhead rather than underground (from Jaurès to Barbès-Rochechouart); probably from the overhead bits of the 6, too, but I didn't used to ride that one to work so I'm not sure. Some decent stuff if you walk up the canal, too.

lapsangsouchong

Belleville and Le Marais were both great. I even ran into several writers painting pieces on the street as I walked around Belleville--definitely not a common experience in the U.S... I wish I had more time to check out the other neighborhoods suggested, but thanks everyone for your help!

flod

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