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Splash and Burn: an art campaign taking aim at Indonesia’s palm oil industry

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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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The “carnival” has been cancelled globally in the spring of 2020. As we are all painfully aware, the whole world has been locked down and the Covid 19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on all lives, businesses and events. Within this context, German artist Andreas Von Chrzanowski, aka Case Maclaim, has recently completed a large …

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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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As with many other galleries around the world, Kirk Gallery has been closed to the public and only open by appointment for the past month and a half due to Covid-19. Since the situation has rapidly improved in Denmark and the authorities have decided to start opening up again, so will the gallery, with a stellar …

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Growing global appreciation for street art has animated every set of eyes that interacts with the medium. As this art form has gained widespread renown, studio artists have taken their talents to the streets in search of fresh air and increased connection with viewers. Tourists have come to understand public art as a visual face …

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The spectacular Spanish artist PEJAC occupies a special class of public artists who pushes their medium to new levels. He has painted Spain’s oldest prison with a project that declared the existence of common, uniting humanity. He has installed climate change awareness in the middle of the sea. The artist’s own biography states his commitment …

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Australian street artist Fintan Magee recently returned to his home country, where he finished a stunning new mural titled ‘Meeting Point.’ The artist painted his endeavor in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, 752 kilometers from Lismore, the town where he was born in the same state. In an Instagram comment regarding the mural, Magee explained, …

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39 year old Argentinian born street artist Martin Ron is widely considered to be one of the top ten muralists in the world, and to my mind, he is right up there. I’m personally in awe of his vast scale hyper realistic urban surrealist murals around the globe (one of my old favorites being in Hackney …

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