Montreal Celebrates Native Son Leonard Cohen With Separate, Dueling Murals

5th Annual Mural Festival gets a jump on artwork tied to city's 350th anniversary celebrations

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There’s a funny wrinkle to this year’s Mural Festival in Montreal. The event, currently in its fifth year and running June 8-18, features a gaggle of street artists enlisted to ‘democratize urban art.’

One artist achieving this objective in spades is Kevin Ledo. His Leonard Cohen art, currently in progress, takes up the equivalent of nine storeys on the side of the Cooper Building, on St-Laurent. Blvd. This fall, the city of Montreal will erect a much bigger 20-storey Cohen mural at 1420 Crescent Street.

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