Know your place citizen – consume!
German street artist LAPIZ doesn’t mince words. He didn’t leave a long career in science for the nagging uncertainty of an artist’s life to lurk around important insights — he wants to drive right at the source. While the world was plunged into lockdown this year, LAPIZ remained active around his native Hamburg, shedding some …
HOXXOH Teams Up With PUZZLES WITH PURPOSE In Support Of the First Responders Children’s Foundation
With the on-going impact of the pandemic resulting in the CDC urging people not to travel or be at large gatherings during the holiday season, it’s not much of a surprise that the 2020 edition of Art Basel Miami as well as other major art fairs, live painting events, and more that happen within the …
Comforting Sounds By Evoca1 In Lynn, MA
There was a time around April or May that I began to sneer at phrases like “now more than ever” and words like “unprecedented,” all of them co-opted by corporations trying to convince me they cared. It is possible my derision distracted me from the true matter at hand. It feels impossible to grasp this …
A Mural By Iena Cruz Addressing How Human Activity Impacts Nature
On October 29th, GreenPoint Innovations, an environmentally-minded technology company based in Brooklyn, NY announced a new mural by street artist Federico Massa a.ka. Iena Cruz, painted at Q404 Hunters Point Campus in Long Island City. A press release by the organization explained that Cruz’s piece, titled ‘High Tide’ is a “thought-provoking mural that addresses how …
A Mural By JDL Street Art Paying Tribute To A Creative Soul
Internationally-acclaimed and notoriously innovative street artist Judith de Leeuw, who goes by the moniker JDL Street Art, recently completed a breathtaking new mural at the Mjölby Central Station in Sweden. Her new work, titled A beautiful pile of trash & connections stands proud amongst all four stories of the facade it occupies, facing the adjacent …
Collapse: A Mural by Nevercrew in Grenoble
Swiss artists Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni AKA Nevercrew have created a new mural in Grenoble (situated in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France). The mural was impeccably timed seeing that life is soon to grind to a halt once again in many parts of the world. This new work is titled ‘Collapse’ and curated …
Mural On The Importance Of Recycling By Murmure Street In Bayonne, France
Dung Beetle is the latest mural created by French duo Murmure Street for the Point de Vue Festival in Bayonne (France), organized by SpaceJunk Bayonne. This monumental mural is part of their “Garb-age” series which is based on dreamlike and poetic twists of the garbage bag. This object, symbol of our era and our consumerist civilization, …
Seth adorns La Cité des Enfants With A Stunning Mural
As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has obviously put new constraints on the international mural festivals which populate our site through warmer months, it’s interesting to witness how each institution has manipulated their former model to accommodate the new normal. Even better than interesting, it’s a source of ebullience to understand that art persists at all …
Strength By Pejac In Santander, Spain
Marking the historic moment in global history, a pandemic that strongly affected his homeland taking over 50,000 lives so far, Pejac recently created 3 interventions at University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla in his hometown Santander. Entitled after the quality of being strong, much needed in the world we live today, and especially within the walls …
Sour Mouse Presents: “Electro Magnetic” Art Show Opening Reception
New York, NY, 10-12-2020. Sour Mouse, a new venue that opened on the lower east side (110 Delancey St. @ Essex St.) is thrilled to present “Electro Magnetic,” a solo show by Indie 184. The native New York street-artist of Dominican descent has been a female pioneer in the graffiti and street-art arena for two decades. “Electro …
Street Art for Mankind Teams Up With The UN & Kashi On The First UN75 Mural In NYC
Canadian street artist Emmanuel Jarus recently completed a new mural in midtown Manhattan for a joint endeavor by Street Art for Mankind (SAM) and the United Nations to honor the latter’s 75th anniversary. His work is the first in the worldwide UN75 mural series, which will “amplify the voices of the over 1 million people …
Current Conversations in Inhambane, Mozambique
In May 2019, One Blue Sky, a street art project founded and funded by The Good Works Foundation in partnership with aptARTS, celebrated the completion of its first global endeavor. This year, in September 2020, the organization celebrated an important milestone in the completion of its second endeavor, with a new mural painted by Jonathan …