Interview With Danish Art Collector & Curator Jens-Peter Brask
In 2016, Danish art collector, curator, and bon vivant Jens-Peter Brask made the bold move to end his former career as a restauranteur, surrendering security to use his organizational skills in a new way—crafting public art experiences that create new connections. By the end of 2019, Brask had organized a massive outdoor mural gallery in …
Reisefieber: An Art Piece By LAPIZ Addressing Vaccine Inequality
Equinox season is a time of transition—in the southern hemisphere, mother nature is animating landscapes with spectral siennas. Up north, half the world is emerging from a harrowing pandemic winter. Widespread vaccination efforts have arrived in tandem with this rebirth, offering apparent liberation from the coronavirus’s twelve-month strong shackles. Hamburg-based street artist LAPIZ appears, at …
‘Reading Between The Lines’ by Jason Naylor
Jason Naylor is an award winning artist, designer, and creative director known to mural hounds and makeup mavens alike. After graduating from Brigham Young University, Naylor moved to New York City to begin his design career at MAC Cosmetics. Six years later, the artist’s biography explains, he set about on his own artistic mission, “spreading …
Our Own Top Ten Murals of 2020
The first steps to spring cleaning require a mess—drawers must be emptied and cobwebbed closets gutted to make space for reorganization. Clutter must be uprooted, scattered across dusty floors, and assessed. Like James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Without the initial …
Ephemeral Treasures: A Show By Dulk In New York
Spanish artist Antonio Segura, known around the world as Dulk, recently added a New York debut to his repertoire of global murals and exhibitions with Ephemeral Treasures, a solo show now on view at Spoke Art on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Hosted in cooperation with LA-based Thinkspace Projects, this latest endeavor features new paintings and …
Change: A Short Film By Doug Gillen Documenting The Work Of The “Void Projects” In Ferizaj, Kosovo
At the end of January, Scottish filmmaker Doug Gillen released his debut short film, CHANGE. The succinct documentary’s press release explains that CHANGE explores “the intersection of culture, activism and social change with art collective Void Projects in Ferizaj, Kosovo.” The film makes use of multiple angles pertinent to its setting—the formerly war-torn country itself …
Rest In Peace Hyuro
Every artist destined to impact society does so through radical authenticity — an ongoing conversation with the unique passions driving their work. Argentinian artist Tamara Djurovic, known around the world as Hyuro, painted gorgeous murals that were fruits borne of a rich inner life. Her work, synchronously thoughtful and dynamic, gained fervent traction for its …
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 …
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 …
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 …