Yesterday the globetrotting China-born street artist DAL became the latest in a string of international artists to grace the mural space outside Rag & Bone’s Lower East Side store on the corner of Elizabeth and Houston streets — just around the corner from Lady Aiko’s new Bowery mural.

Created with his typical swirls of barbed wire-like metallic forms on a safari-evoking yellow backdrop, the mural features a male lion and lion cub walking amidst metal coils. The barbed big cats are not the first street art animals to make the corner mural spot their habitat; last summer Gaia painted a giant portrait of a rooster at the same location.

— Benjamin Sutton

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