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Moniker Art Fair’s Second US Edition: May 1-5
Celebrating its 10th year, Moniker Art Fair will shortly bring a hyper-curated, five-day contemporary & urban art showcase for its second New York edition. Housed in a new location, a 15,000 square-foot space in the heart of NoHo, Moniker will feature a stellar line up of artists with 29 international exhibitors, eight solo artist presentations …
Out In The Open 2019 Stellar Artist Line-up
‘Out in the Open’ mural project launched by KIRK Gallery in 2014, just kicked off its 5 fifth edition with stellar artist line-up including: Vhils (PT), Seth (FR), TelmoMiel (NL), Oliver Vernon (USA), Fintan Magee (AU), Joram Roukes (NL), Nils Westergard (USA). These artists will adorn the streets of Aalborg (Denmark) over the coming weeks. The …
Faith47 Unveils A Mural On Women Empowerment In NYC
To celebrate 100 years of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in New York, the South African street-artist Faith XLVII painted a new mural titled ‘Equalitas.’ The striking work, organized in partnership with Street Art Mankind, the United Nations as well as ILO also observes the progression of women’s rights and gender equality in the workplace. About …
The Lost Art Of Caring
The story of refugees in the Greek islands has faded from headline news, yet the struggle and suffering continues. Mainstream Europe have stopped caring about the crisis and in effect have stopped caring for their fellow humans. In an effort to revive the art of caring and improve the environment where children seek mental and …
Book Review: Street Art Las Vegas
On April 12th, 2019 William Shea and Patrick Lai released their joint project Street Art Las Vegas. The book, published by local outfit Smallworks Press, outlines the intricacies of the city’s evolving street art scene. With special thanks given to entities like Las Vegas Arts District and City of Las Vegas, the pages burst with …
La Mare by Mohamed L’Ghacham in Villarreal, Spain
La Mare by Mohamed L’Ghacham is the seventh (and largest) mural designed to date in the TEST series for Mostra d’Art i Creativitat in Villarreal 2019. Mohamed L’Ghacham (Tangier, 1993) descended upon Valencia last week to get to work on his 25 meter high x 12 meter wide ‘canvas’ located on a seven-story housing estate …
PichiAvo’s 85-Foot Sculpture Set Alight For Fallas De València Celebration
Valencian duo PichiAvo spent a whole year designing the mesmerising 85-foot-tall sculpture, only to have it set alight last month at Fallas de València. Their graffitied, neoclassical sculpture was torched during the peak of the festival along with 400 others throughout the Spanish city; an exhilarating tradition to commemorate Saint Joseph and mark the start …
A Stunning Mural By Fintan Magee In Papeete, Tahiti
Australian street artist Fintan Magee recently traveled to Papeete, Tahiti to complete his newest mural “Strength of Memory”. The five-story project, found in French Polynesia’s capital city, was curated by ONO’U Tahiti, an organization that promotes public art on the island. ONO’U hosts a yearly graffiti festival and also hosts street art tours, in addition …
5 Murals On Social Justice Around the UN Headquarters in NYC
To commemorate their 100th year, The International Labour Organization (ILO) partnered with Street Art for Mankind (SAM) to produce 5 beautiful and inspiring murals (#ILO100Murals) about social justice around the United Nations Headquarters in NYC. These murals created by prominent international street artists, will set the course for a contemporary Art Walk, in the streets …
A Mini Mural By Axel Void On Family Unity in Havana
Last month, Haitian-American-Spanish street artist Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs Aka Axel Void completed a small-scale mural in Havana, Cuba. In a press release for the project, the artist explains, “this image is based on a still from a short film I am working on. The film is based on a family living in the neighborhood …
2019 Nuart Aberdeen Artists Line Up Revealed
Nuart are delighted to be returning this spring to Aberdeen, dubbed ‘The Granite City’ for their third festival. Following the triumph of their previous festivals both in Stavanger and Aberdeen, Nuart has assembled another strong line up of artists; a combination of global titans and ascending stars. Nuart’s mainstay Dotmasters (aka Leon Sessix) will return, …
About This Town: A Mural By Artez In Madrid
March 3rd, 2019 concluded the third edition of Urvanity Art Fair, a relatively new urban art festival in Madrid, Spain. Urvanity’s manifesto emphasizes the importance of new trends in the manner with which art and cities interact, and the festival has dubbed itself “a platform for a New Contemporary Art.” Simultaneously though, Urvanity focuses on …