If you had your restrictions from the so called “proletarian socialist authorities” then you could have been real artists and told them all to fuck off.

Artists are supposed to be rebellious not authoritarian arse licker’s.

In any case you are obviously all a bunch of badly traveled spoiled young students.

Who assigns students murals for major walls?

A bunch of tight arses wanting everything for free.

Would you call a medical student a doctor? How can you call an art student an artist?

Now this is interesting.

What you are saying is that you either execute something for free or you fail your course.

There’s a word for that I’ll have you know and it’s called BLACKMAIL.

Blackmail is a criminal act so I now expect the competent authorities to take not of this and investigate.

It’s the brief that was wrong. I knew it.

J, the original bieb il-belt was erected between April 1566 and 1569 and was little more than a hole in the wall.

In 1632 Porta San Giorgio was replaced by a more ornate gate.

In 1853 a new gate was erected, consisting of two central arches with two smaller ones and is the one to which you and many like you usually refer to.

The fourth City Gate was inaugurated in 1964 and has thankfully been removed.

And now we have the fifth attempt which cannot be taken out of context but read as a complex including Renzo Piano’s beautiful parliament buildings, open spaces, stairways and theatre modifications.

Culture is not ‘a mantelpiece for objets d’art’ as Baxxter rightfully pointed out. Culture is not using a bombed theatre as a carpark either.

London and Paris are places of indisputable culture and both have their fair share of modern buildings. This is what keeps them alive.

Finally, beauty is not as subjective as you may think and personal taste cannot come into it.

As Karl Lagerfeld once said “I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

How tedious. If Valletta were left in its original state, it would be a fortress with a foundry, a bakery and a hospital, no commerce, no theatres, no cinema and no nightlife other than the louche and seedy.

That cartoon mural is suitable for a child’s bedroom minus the woman in a bikini of course.

worked on the mural above?

What went wrong?

It’s just an opinion but i like how Valletta was before (ie before the last bieb il belt) keeping it as a historical place like Mdina would have been nice. I’m not saying Renzo Piano did a bad job coz it’s definitely better than the building there was prior to the parliament building but i would have preferred an older style building but that’s just personal taste.