Dijon – France

Dreamed up by French artist and filmmaker Julien de Casabianca, the ongoing international collaborative project takes fine classic art paintings out of the gallery and onto the streets.

Outings invites you to go into a gallery, discreetly snap photos of under-appreciated portraits with your phone, print one of them out and paste it onto urban surfaces in the outside world. Removed from their cultural and historical context, participants breathe life into these forgotten paintings. So far the project has cropped up in locations including London, Chicago, Roma, Bastia, Barcelona, Paris as well as Madrid.

Julien de Casabianca explains further: “We want to see people from all around the world to discover act of sticking in the street and become street artists in the project […] it’s a re-appreciation of our urban space. We have to use it for visual expression, communication and advertising. If art is the…