› A huge, lifelike mural of a Dominican grandmother smoking a pipe and cooking in a heavy black pot over an open flame adorns a brick wall behind 98-102 Lafayette Street in Salem. The artists, known as Duo Amazonas, are two Latin American women based in Madrid whose incredible, large-scale mural work appears across the world, from Austria to Sweden to Italy, and Salem, too, as of October.
This mural is one of dozens by world-renowned artists from around the world at the Punto Urban Art Museum, an open-air mural project featuring large-scale murals over a multiblock radius in The Point, a Salem neighborhood just outside downtown.
Once, such an incredible display might be enough to put a city’s art on the map. But this isn’t just any city. It’s Salem,
