Congratulations! You’ve managed to get through the first 2.5 weekdays. To help you get through the second half of your week, Jewcy is happy to present you with Hump Day Art. Think of it as an opportunity to devote your attention to the more cultural things in life, or at the very least, to zone out at your desk for a few minutes while you look at some pretty pictures.

Iranian street artist A1one recently teamed up with Israeli artists Inspire and Poe to create a series of works called “Evolution of Violence” showcased on the walls of Tel Aviv and Tehran.

Inspire writes, “We were all born creators...we have no need for systems of control which ultimately help to cause senseless violence to evolve within our cultures...You don't have to fuck people over to survive…”

Here are images from both cities.

Tel Aviv

Tehran

Last week: Sand in the Holy Land

The street art duo Os Gemeos, comprised of twin brothers from Brazil, has recently taken its cartoonish works to Lithuania. For more on Os Gemeos, including an extensive gallery, head to the Lost Art website.

Complex magazine has what might be my favorite of the Mailer tributes coming out this week: a post about his book The Faith of Graffiti. It turns out Mailer become obsessed with graffiti back in 1974, back when "wild style" referred to leopard-print sheets. Says the Complex blog:

[The book] was an oversized masterpiece with photos by Mervyn Kurlansky and Jon Naar detailing the mysterious emerging art form on NYC’s subway trains. The notoriously tough guy author intellectualized the graffiti movement in its early beginnings—’Faith’ was published in 1974—when hand styles were still being developed and most of the letters were very primitive. Mailer was fascinated by the art form, writing, “What a quintessential marriage of cool and style to write your name in giant separate living letters, large as animals, lythe as snakes, mysterious as Arabic and Chinese curls of alphabet.”