We’ve got more photos today from Mike Pearce‘s time in Miami. Today we’re focusing on the art installation at the Fountain Art Fair. As they have done in past years, the fair got some street artists to paint on temporary walls in an outdoor section of the fair. This year, the installation was curated by …
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This week seems to be the week of pre-Christmas art sales in the UK, or at least attempts at pre-Christmas art sales. In London, there’s the Taking Liberty’s pop-up shop open now through the 21st with a great group of political charged artists and 10% of sales going to Reel News as well as Season …
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At Vandalog, we try not to post every single Banksy piece that pops up. The reason for that is that not every Banksy piece is a work of genius or a complete flop. Some are just forgettable. Unfortunately, because Banksy is Banksy, his forgettable works get blown out of proportion and become tourist attractions. With …
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While Vandalog and a lot of other art blogs have been focusing and will continue to focus on the murals that recently went up during Art Basel Miami, it’s worth noting that the streets also got plastered in posters. Unless otherwise noted, these images are by Mike Pearce, who has the best set of images …
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Those graffiti murals in Bushwick are among the most vibrant anywhere. They also attest to graffiti’s continual evolution. And while so many “street artists” who grace our walls with wonderfully provocative images often retire from the streets, most of the writers keep on doing their thing in the public sphere. Here are a few images …
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Large Solomostry is a 23-year old street artist working in Italy. These are two of his most recent walls. Photos by Large Solomostry
Amuse, reigning from Chicago, raised the bar for writers and dimmed the line separating graffiti and street art. Three prominent qualities that keeps Amuse’s work attractive are the details work, the movement, and the sporadic use of color. The following are some of Amuse’s illest work yet. Photos by Eclectric Dyslexic
Balancing elements of local heritage with commentary on the process of large-scale, public works-style painting, UGLAR recently utilized techniques of fine art and street art to pay tribute to L.A.’s three greatest contemporary muralists, Willy Herron III, Kent Twitchell, and Chaz Bojorquez, with a massive mural just north of Chinatown called “Painting the Painters.” Roughly …
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The following is a message from BNE, the graffiti writer and founder of the BNE Water Foundation. The foundation is launching an ambitious project to provide clean water to people in Gunung Kidul, Indonesia. If you have the means, I encourage you to donate or pick up something from the foundation’s shop or gallery. With …
This is a collab by Rookie, Nychos and Dxtr of The Weird Crew and Simple from Göteborg. I felt compelled to post this piece because I’m going to China in March. I’m curious what Shanghai’s street art scene is like. Photo by DXTR – The Weird
