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The Future Was Born Yesterday
Hitting fifty might be a brutal and rough rite of passage. Some experiences seem incomplete, while others may have taken their toll and brutally accelerated our sinking into decrepitude. Yet in this day and age, fifty is the new twenty and the creative transformation of Abidjan’s La Pyramide (Côte d’Ivoire) is simply a case in point. …
Mural By Robert Montgomery In Trondeheim Airport, Norway
The latest public work by British contemporary artist Robert Montgomery has just been completed in the city of Trondheim (situated where the River Nidelva meets Trondheim Fjord) in Central Norway. Montgomery is well known for his work in public space and billboard poems. He also makes light works, fire poems, woodcuts, paintings and watercolours. His …
These USA murals are in the running for “best street art of 2022”
For the 2nd year in a row Street Art Cities is looking fort he most popular street art of last year and your vote counts. Like last year, Street Art Cities has been following the scene all year long from up close, with every month a round up of 100 fresh and beautiful murals from …
Love Is Stronger Than Death – A Mural Series About Cancer by JDL Street Art
During a television broadcast on May 30, 2022, a huge painting by Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw, also known as JDL Street Art, was revealed in the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The painting ‘Brightness in the clouds of cancer’ is an immense mural that Judith made especially for KWF Dutch Cancer …
When art represents an everyday memory: the story of Giada and her grandfather Tonino
For this year’s edition of LuceFest, in the small village of San Pietro Magisano in Calabria, Italy a hyper-realistic and hyper-impressive mural was painted by the artist Slim Safont. The aim of the festival, which took place from August 28 to September 6, is to give a new face to degraded or abandoned landscapes in …
Duality: A Graffiti Story – Voice to the Voiceless
I feel a wild mix of emotions after watching Duality, A Graffiti Story (released October21st) the documentary produced by Buffalo 8, an LA-based production company. It feels dense and packed, like the works of graffiti it’s presenting, so much story to tell, in too little time. It feels like life on the edge, just barely …
Could art protect nature?
In Barnstaple, a river port town in North Devon, England, all eyes are on the town’s first mural. According to the artist Rich Thorne aka Richt, the painting is a tribute to the unique environment of his birthplace. The beautiful landscape with its special ecosystem has been recognized by UNESCO. In 2016, this area of …
KIRK Gallery’s 9th edition of the ‘Out in the Open’ mural project in Aalborg, Denmark
Case Maclaim has just completed a mural titled ‘Heart Is Aching’ for the 9th edition of KIRK Gallery’s ‘Out in the Open’ series. This is his second mural in Aalborg following ‘Carnival is Cancelled’ which he created back in 2020. And as an extraordinary feat, Case Maclaim managed to paint this latest mural whilst simultaneously …
Norway’s first LGBTQ+ Mural Constructed as Part of Løkka-lykke Street Art Festival in Oslo
Up-and-coming street artist Eva Hansen Sjøvold painted Norway’s first LGBTQ+ mural as part of Løkka-lykke Street Art Festival in Oslo this past June. Løkka-lykke is the first street art festival in Norway to take place in the capital city, and it has a decidedly local profile, aiming to work with local Norwegian artists. Eight artists …
OUTSIGHT, a Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada mural in Laon, France
Interrupting the status quo is something we associate with Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada. From “culture jamming,” where he employed marketing strategies to call attention to the detrimental social impact of targeted advertising or the “Identity Series,” where he utilized random locals in massive charcoal drawings, he is using art as resistance. The same is true of his …
Belarusian Artist Gleb Kashtanov Creates Mural as Testament to the History of the Republic
Belarusian artist Gleb Kashtanov recently created a spectacularly symbolic mural “The Origins” in Polatsk, Belarus, a place known as the center of the ancient Belarusian statehood. The commanding symbol of a great sword growing into the soil is depicted on the front of a nine-story building. The sword has a three-dimensional feel, as roots and …
Art Attack Against a Hazy and Forgotten Threat
To coincide with World Environment Day, Lithuanian Artist Ernest Zacharevic reveals ‘Transboundary Haze’, a new artwork in Kuala Lumpur launching a collaboration with Greenpeace Malaysia, Splash and Burn and filmmakers Studiobirthplace. The project is the first in a series of creative intervention planned throughout the year, urging those in authority to hold polluters accountable for …