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 …

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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 …

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This month, British street artist Xenz completed the second urban art intervention of his month-long sojourn in Norway. Under the direction of James Finucane, arts organization Street Art Oslo has played host to this world-renowned talent, touring him through the Oslo metropolitan area to bring his distinct style to facades in need. The latest work …

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Nuart, as an organization, offers a buffet for the intellectually ravenous mind. Nuart’s team has their hand in the each of the multitudinous pots conjuring delectable concoctions for their audience; from the documentaries this team supports to their esteemed journal, Nuart constantly seeks new manners to engage and contend with culture.   Murals have historically proven …

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In Oslo, Norway, curator, producer, and founder James Finucane has restarted his street art operations “after a long postponement due to COVID.” The enterprising individual heads Street Art Oslo, “an online platform and IRL network of artists, curators, producers and scholars dedicated to improving conditions for the production, reception and dissemination of street art and …

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Come hell or high water, street artists simply want to paint. We’ve seen this principle play out over the course of the pandemic, as international artists have turned their talents to the far-flung countries where they’re based. Illustrious Australian powerhouse Fintan Magee is no different. Magee recently completed a new mural in Queensland, Australia for …

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Though the world is still dealing with travel restrictions and stilted circles, Portuguese visual artist Diogo Machado, known from walls internationally as Add Fuel, is still crafting breathtaking facades. The artist recently completed two domestic walls, one in Lisbon, and the other in Caldas da Raigna, two cities close to Cascais, where the artist lives …

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While the coronavirus pandemic is still far from over, the situation’s cultural frenzy certainly peaked in an unprecedented fashion this Spring. It has been generations since the entire world bore the brunt of a crisis in the fashion those widespread lockdowns entailed. This time, we saw how progress has altered our society. Many turned to …

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Russian artist Rustam QBic conjures fantastical murals fit for a storybook world. The lands depicted across his body of work transcend the laws of mortal reality. Here, blooming flowers, shells, trees and seas call the shots. However, the artist’s recent work, a mural diptych titled “Voinushka,” dabbles in an area of his fantasy land which …

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“Wealth is the vector,” sociologist Tressie McMillan Cotton tweeted  on March 24th, 2020 regarding the then-escalating coronavirus pandemic. The tweet was then quoted by a Buzzfeed article which highlighted how this virus gained powerful wings through the bodies of affluent individuals fleeing urban areas for remote vacation homes. “The virus travels via people, and the …

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“There’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch.’” Over the course of my life, I’ve heard this from family, friends, and my professors in business school. I have avidly sought to disprove the point. I’d like to eradicate this idea of an everlasting quid pro quo and confidently assert that good deeds can exist in …

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In a world of eight billion voices, I believe statistics is the only unbiased force to be trusted. I venerate the proverbial ‘bell curve’ as if it were a near-divine concept, this idea that the normal distribution governs every area of our earthly lives. This view means that as the COVID-19 crisis mounted, I assumed …

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