Peanuts Global Artist Collective

Schulz/Peanuts news

Now this is cool! The Peanutsy folks have announced the Peanuts Global Artist Collective, an international public art effort were seven selected artists/teams are doing public art using the Peanuts characters. They’re permitted to do their own interpretation of the characters, or to use Schulz art, or to mix things together — that’s a pretty broad set of permissions, as far as Peanuts goes. Here are some of my favorite of the examples; you can find more (and at higher resolution) here.

Berlin installation by FriendsWithYou
Mexico City piece by Kenny Scharf
Snoopy invades New York via the talents of AVAF

 

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