Nuart Aberdeen 2022 | Festival Announcement
This June 9th through 12th, Nuart Aberdeen is back to paint the infamously gray Granite City in Scotland with full force once more, after last year’s abbreviated edition featuring a series of staggered artist residencies and Nuart’s inventive ‘Stuck Up’ program, where artists from around the world sent paper artworks for the festival team to …
Akumal Arts Fest Commemorates 2022 Edition with Inaugural NFT-4-Good Drop
Akumal Arts Festival celebrated its fifth edition this January, welcoming nearly 100 international artists to the seaside pueblo in Mexico’s Riviera Maya to douse paradise stucco with fresh perspectives and paint—for the first time since November 2019, following a locally-focused edition in 2020 to recenter during the pandemic. “From the first day, it was always …
Sperone167: bringing Italy’s pastoral margins closer towards the center.
Once the calling card of urban centers around the globe, street art continues to proliferate more remote reaches of society as spray paint loses still more of its stigma and new communities crave placemaking of their own. “Most cultural and social actions take place in the historical city centres, pushing suburbs even more to the …
Acidum Project Paints a Mural in the Shadows of Egypt’s Great Pyramids of Giza
A new public art project is unfolding the shadows of Egypt’s great Pyramids of Giza. Creative agency and urban art producer DUCO is expanding their portfolio near the soon-to-opened Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). In early 2020, DUCO spotted an opportunity and proposed the Grand Egyptian Museum Public Art Cultural Tourism (GEMPACT) to welcome more color …
Axel Void Adorns One of Beirut’s Buildings With A Thought-provoking Mural
Spanish street artist Axel Void rounded 2021 out with a mural in Beirut that provokes fresh dialogue with the public. While recent art installations in the city by FaithXLVII and Alba Fabre Sacristán have sown sympathetic superblooms, Void’s contribution triggers something else. On a multi-story structure in Beirut, the Cadiz-based creative painted an old photograph …
Drowning in Flowers By Alba Fabre Sacristán In Beirut
Lebanon is in the midst of its largest economic recession since the civil war of 1975-1990, paired with the constant presence of political corruption and interference as outlined in a recent opinion piece by Raghida Dergham, founder and executive chairwoman of the Beirut Institute. In the same article, however, Dergham espouses the deep roots of …
Faith XLVII’s Petal Trail in Beirut Tracing Past & Present Scars Etched Into the City
World-renowned interdisciplinary artist Faith XLVII from South Africa recently traveled to Beirut, Lebanon to lend her soft sense of natural realism to the recovering city’s fragile landscape. As part of the Underline project facilitated by street art collective Persona, Faith painted a series of medicinal plants native to Lebanon on dilapidated spaces ranging from abandoned …
An Inside Look at The Column By Persona In Amman, Jordan
Last month Jofre Oliveras and Dalal Mitwally, two artists in the cross-border art collective Persona, completed a 90 foot tall mural titled The Column on a residential building in Amman, the capital city of Jordan. Their towering collaboration adds a subtle dash of additional color to the glowing beige city per the efforts of local …
Welcome to The heARTwork of Jenny Vyas
Most people participate in culture, but pioneers create it. Since seizing her creative calling, Chicago-based artist Jenny Vyas has repeatedly confronted the unknown, that liminal space between light and dark, hunting new insights to infuse into her artwork. Vyas’s output spans three mediums—fine art canvases blending monochromatic figures with abstract expressionism, philosophical prose called her …
Nuart Aberdeen STUCK UP – Summer 2021 Recap
Mural festivals still look a little different this year. Always thoughtful but also always pushing the envelope, Nuart Festival leads efforts in restoring normalcy with mindfulness in Scotland, where Nuart Aberdeen recently concluded its latest edition. Where better than “The Granite City” to begin rebuilding on a foundation sturdy as stone? To account for continued …
Orientalism: The Imitation Or Depiction Of Aspects In The Eastern World By Western Superiority
“Arabs, for example, are thought of as camel-riding, terroristic, hook-nosed, venal lechers whose undeserved wealth is an affront to real civilization. Always there lurks the assumption that although the Western consumer belongs to a numerical minority, he is entitled either to own or to expend (or both) the majority of the world resources. Why? Because …
Kotis Street Art Offers a New Model for Muralism
After spending my second day beneath the blaring sun in the back parking lot of Kingsway Shopping Center in Eden, NC, I watched a group of artists spray paint individual canvases at a killer clip throughout the entryway to a well-appointed loft. My cells vibrated while Noé Barnett, Dale Conboy, Jenna Rice, Aaron Golbeck, Chad …