“Sand Stories” by Artez in Cairo, Egypt
Serbian street artist Artez made a brief sojourn to Cairo, Egypt to create another ethereal, large scale mural in only two days. The artist sought to incorporate Egypt’s storied culture into the new work, titled “Sand Stories.” A statement released by the artist explains, “During my stay and especially during the time I was painting …
A Mural by Etnik In l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Seasoned street artist Etnik recently completed his mural for the urban art Project 12 + 1 in L’Hospitalet hosted by Contorno Urbano in Spain. The Stockholm-born artist presently lives and works in Turin, Italy, but ventured to Europe’s eastern region to participate in this unique event, which hosts one new artist each month and culminates with a …
A Beautiful Mural By Sasha Korban On Resilience of Kids In Conflict Areas
News of violent struggles for power in foreign lands like Ukraine are easily reduced to impersonal figures: lives lost, land gained, resources allocated and depleted in either side’s efforts. Such simplifications make their horrifying human elements much easier to swallow. We lose sight of the fact that each casualty represents the end of a human …
BLOOP Concludes 2018 HOPE Edition With A Mural by Spaik
The world-renowned and famously trailblazing BLOOP International Proactive Art Festival in Ibiza, Spain closed this year’s event with an energetic intervention completed by Mexican street artist Spaik. His work, titled “Somnolencia (Sleepiness)” pays tribute to this year’s theme of HOPE, in “[spotlighting] that dreaming for HOPE is what drives us to live,” according to a …
Artez in Imola (Italy) for RestArt Festival
Serbian street artist Artez returns to his consistently present motif of reading in his new mural “Floating On A Dream” completed for RestArt Festival in Imola, Italy late last September. “Floating On A Dream” brings the artist’s signature blend of serenity and whimsy to this beautiful Bolognese town situated near Italy’s Northwestern coast. Artez explains …
The Summit by Dulk In Alcoy, Spain
A few weeks ago, Antonio Segura Donat, widely known to the street art community as Dulk, returned to the area where his career began to embark upon his latest work, titled “The Summit”. This large-scale mural marks the artist’s first endeavor of this size in the industrial university city of Alcoy, Spain, located near Valencia …
An Environmentally Driven Mural By Engy Al Garf in Giza, Egypt
A recent release regarding a new mural in Giza, Egypt, explains, “The Participatory Development Programme (PDP) in Urban Areas is an Egyptian-German development measure implemented in cooperation between the Egyptian Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities (MoHUUC) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The PDP’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy aims to …
Fintan Magee in Minsk, Belarus
Any victim of lost love, childhood nostalgia, or unfulfilled dreams can attest to sweetness of the past’s lilting siren song. However, reality belongs to those who fearlessly turn their gaze towards the future. True, every work completed by an artist progresses their story forward, but it can only occasionally be said that an artist’s work …
Rustam Qbic in Helsingør, Denmark
In his continued, self-described efforts to develop “his visual language and technique,” Russian artist Rustam Qbic completed a new work titled “Under the Roof” on August 17th. This beautiful, most recent piece from the renowned artist can be found in Helsingør, Denmark where Kunstosbyrum Helsingør Kommune organized its completion and Elisabetta Saiu worked to curate …
“I choose over my body, my sexuality, my present, and future.”
I dart through traffic crossing Park Avenue on my way to work, shaky from hunger. I count the hours since my last meal, praying I’ll cross the cursory 15 hour threshold required to maintain my intermittent fasting schedule soon. Conventional knowledge in 2018 might espouse the near-end of female body image issues, with chants of …
A Mural By Wasp Elder About The Disenfranchised In Lynn’s Shoe Industrial Revolution
Last week UK-based artist Sam Worthington, also known as Wasp Elder, completed his latest mural, titled “Automation and the Proletariat” for the Beyond Walls festival in Lynn, Massachusetts. The artist describes this large-scale work as a “reimagined story of Lynn’s industrial revolution in the shoe industry.” About The Mural Completed in three separate portions, the …
AngelOnce and GoopMassta’s New Duo Show is Worth All The Hype
A couple of weeks ago the California-based street artists AngelOnce and GoopMassta made their maiden voyage to New York City to embark upon a sizzling collaborative endeavor that culminated with their latest duo show, “Pink & Green 2, The Hype Series”. The two also spent their time in New York working on new murals that …