I came across Street Art View only the other day, which is pretty pathetic considering the number of Facebook and Twitter posts on it. Right now I am teetering on how I feel about it. Powered by Red Bull (who seem to have their hands in street art related activities a lot recently) and Google …
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Here are a few bits of street art in London that I’ve been liking. Some new artwork from Roa, Stormie Mills, Mobstr and Zezão… Photos by HowAboutNo! and Mobstr
While Graffiti Brasil (by Tristan Manco, Lost Art and Caleb Neelon) is probably the benchmark against which other books about graffiti and street art in that country are measured, that book has been out for a while and it’s about time for an update on the scene. Nuevo Mundo: Latin American Street Art by Maximiliano …
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A lot of people were first introduced to street art through Banksy and his rats. Then, you learn that Blek le Rat was painting stencils of rats back in the 1980’s. What people don’t often realize that one of street art’s early pioneers beat both of those artists to stenciled black rats. The Rat Patrol …
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Some of my favorite London photographers will be showing some photos of street art and graffiti at the London ICA next week for the show London Walls. Definitely worth checking out if you like photos of street art and graffiti.
This video tells the story of one of my favorite murals in East London. It was painted by Joe Deane, Joseph Loughborough and Ben Slow. But it also touches on another story… Street Art and Reality on Hanbury Street, London. from Shafiur Rahman on Vimeo. Via Wooster Collective
Bomit is putting together a pop up shop in LA and it opens next week. The Street Art Pop Up Store sounds pretty cool. A lot of galleries like to say “Look. We’re not a ‘street art gallery.’ We just show lots of artists who happen to work outdoors. But really we show ‘contemporary art.’” …
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Sometimes street art end up in odd places. The cover of Diplomat, a magazine targeting the community of diplomats in London, probably qualifies as one of those most unlikely places. And yet, their creative director Jeannine Saba has been working to bring street artists to the diplomatic community. In October 2009, before hardly anyone knew …
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Lush has a solo show on right now at Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. When it comes to active graffiti writers, Lush is one of my favorites. I don’t write about him often here though because his work is so often explicit and NSFW, but with this show, there is just so much good stuff …
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After procrastinating and procrastinating about writing this post, I missed Hanukkah and Eid, so I guess this is a gift guide for Christmas. Sorry for the delay. Here are a few street art related products that have come out in the last year or so that I think are pretty cool. If you’re looking for …
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