Pejac Spends 11 Days Inside El Dueso Spain’s Oldest Prison
Street art takes its creators to unpredictable places: skyscrapers’ facades, abandoned power plants, foreign nations, or any combination of the aforementioned. It can even take one to jail if they paint without permission. In his quest “to continue the conveying of his extraordinary views and art in the most peculiar places” Barcelona-based street artist PEJAC …
A Mural Of Tolerance, Love And Peace In These Divisive Times
The Christchurch mosque shootings were two consecutive terrorist attacks at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday Prayer on 15 March 2019. The attacks that killed 51 people and injured 50, were carried out by a 28-year-old Australian man, described in media reports as a white supremacist and part of the alt-right. The gunman live-streamed the first …
Second Mural in Florida By MTO In Support Of The Yellow Vest Movement
France is consumed by a ferocious and sustained outpouring of social unrest. The tumultuous, intermittently violent protests of the so-called Yellow Vests Movement have shaken the country since they began in November 2018, intensifying in recent weeks. The Yellow Vests reverberate as a primal scream from working-class France at the tax-avoiding, wealth-hogging Parisian glitterati enabled by …
A Massive Mural by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada On Child Labor in NYC
New York City is an uncontested center of art world at large, including street art in particular. However, the city’s bustling center, populated by its most iconic skyscrapers and monuments, is somewhat bereft of murals. Midtown and the neighborhoods bordering its North are so heavily trafficked, so infused with the money flowing throughout them on a daily basis, …
A Stunning Mural Unveiled By VESOD In Padua, Italy
A phenomenal mural by Turin born artist VESOD has just been unveiled in the picturesque city of Padua, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. The city is intensely pretty, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal piazze and charming bridges crossing the Bacchiglione river, which once surrounded the ancient walls …
A Mural Questioning Social, Political, & Emotional Systems That Confine Our Freedom
Dutch artist Stefan Thelen, who is also known by his anti-superhero identity Super A, just wrapped up last weekend an impressive new piece of work for The Rose Kennedy Greenway in our fair city of Boston. The artist spent several days working on this hyper-realistic mural titled Resonance. About The Mural Super A is known …
Joram Roukes Paints A Mural For Out in the Open In Aalborg, Denmark
Launched in Aalborg, Denmark by the KIRK Gallery in 2014, the recent fifth addition of the Out in the Open Mural project, brought a new roster of artists to add their designs to the city, as well as have the opportunity to show their artworks. Included in this years’ lineup was the dutch artist Joram …
One Blue Sky: An Art Intervention That Aims To Instill Within Children A Shared Humanity
Later this month, the end of May will not only usher in the summer season, but also the beginning of a new educational art endeavor brought to fruition with help from Samantha Robison, founder and director of aptART. One Blue Sky is a new project by Laura Rodgers, Director of The Good Works Foundation. The …
Commemorating The 500th Anniversary Of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Death
The POLI Urban Colors Project at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death. This special project features work by 2501, Luca Barcellona, Rancy and Zedz. Alongside these internationally recognized artists, 20 specially selected Politecnico students were given the opportunity to assist them, and encouraged to create either a personal or collective work. The artists have dedicated numerous …
Telmo Miel Unveil A Mural In Aalborg, Denmark
Supreme Dutch mural masters, Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann met at the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2012, and officially partnered up as Telmo Miel in 2017. The unstoppable pair quickly gained international acclaim, and have created murals and exhibited in galleries in Dubai, the United States, Malta, Denmark, Sicily, Holland, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Australia, …
Documentary/Book Review: Sky’s The Limit.
“Murals, or cave or rock art, are as old as mankind itself,” begins Jérôme Thomas, in the introduction to his new book Sky’s The Limit. The sumptuously printed, handover compilation accompanies its author’s recent film documenting the tremendous undertakings of street artists in their quest to create large-scale murals. Thomas is a well-equipped authority on …
Jad El Khoury: An Artist Grappling With A Society In Denial
At this year’s annual Arte Laguna Prize in Venice (Italy), Nuart’s Martyn Reed convened a Land Art/Urban Art panel intended to explore the growing pervasiveness of street art in creating “museums without walls.” Populated by professionals including Dr. Susan Hansen of Nuart, independent curator Simone Pallotta, and Mattias Givell of Wanas Konst, the discussion “[reflected], from different …