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

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AEC from the popular former duo Interesni Kazki published a couple of days ago a few images of his latest mural in Mexico City. About The Mural Titled “Icarus” and painted for The Beauty Project Mexico, the new mural depicts the myth of Icarus who helplessly falls from the sky. Probably making reference to heartless corporate …

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American born Berlin Based Artist James Bullough just completed a brilliant mural for Sea Walls and PangeaSeed Foundation in Napier, New Zealand. About The Mural Entitled “Pania of the Reef”, this piece is about ‘Pania’, the legendary protector of the reef in local Maori folklore and is believed to have lived in the waters off the coast of Napier. The …

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Milan based artists Omer TdK and D-Egon painted a mural that is reminiscent of a 17th-century’s fresco in Milan, Italy. About The Mural A 6 meter high mural has been erected near Lambrate Station in Milan by Omer TDK and D-Egon. The two street artists wanted to recreate an old 17th-century’s fresco giving it a contemporary connotation. The …

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Shadow by Rachel Sommer

American artist Rachel Sommer just finished her last piece in Gainesville, Florida, for the Grove Street Neighborhood. About The Mural “Shadow” is the title of the last piece realized by the artist Rachel Sommer. The mural depicts a dancer with a cage as a head surrounded by two birds flying around. The meaning of this …

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The Italian artist crew WASP just sent us a few images of “Muro contro Muro” their latest street piece, recently painted for Urban Art Field. About the mural When asked about the meaning behind their piece, WASP answers: “Two hands try to touch one another but they can’t as if they lived into parallel universes; this …

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PixelPancho in Hong Kong

Italian street artist PixelPancho just completed a massive mural in Hong Kong for the 4th edition of HKwalls. About The Mural “For humans, the only war worth fighting for is the war against their own extinction” is what is written in Chinese under this wonderful piece, and what could be the title of that gigantic …

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Jacksonville-based artist Nicole Holderbaum aka Nico just realized a new piece for the Grove Street Neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. About The Mural “Soulful Words: Speak Now!” is the title of the new mural painted by Nicole “Nico” Holderbaum and her collaborator, Martin Torres. The theme is Love, as it relates to every one of us …

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Originally published on Urbanite. Last Friday was the opening of  the ‘Sober Street Art Exhibition’, a group show organised by the Rotterdam-based Sober Collective, showing mural and gallery works by Sebas Velasco, Vesod, Bier&Brood and Kaili Smith. In addition to the exhibition, the collective launched last week the first edition of Sober Walls, an event that counts with …

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Miami-based artist Ruben Ubiera was invited last month by Iryna Kanishcheva to paint a life-size whale mural for the Grove Street Neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. About The Mural In this mural the artist depicts a life-size whale away from the ocean, apparently dead and deteriorating, with a couple of vultures feeding off of its meat and sunflowers …

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Baltimore-based artist Gaia just painted a new mural in Gainesville for the Grove Street Neighborhood, a community project that aims to beautify and revitalize the historic city of Gainesville, Florida. ABOUT THE MURAL Gaia was invited to paint in virtual reality for Changeville: Gainesville’s Social Change Festival. Once there, he accept the opportunity, given by the …

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“The Alpha Project”, RONE‘s Latest offering, is a wall series of his beautiful women realized inside the machine rooms of the old Alphington Paper Mills, in Melbourne, before the mills’ demolition. ABOUT THE PROJECT The ephemeral feature of street art finds an emblematic example in “The Alpha Project”, the latest work by RONE. The Australian artist …

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The Ring. Elbi Elem. Photo Clara Anton Artwork

Catalan artist Elbi Elem painted a new piece for Contorno Urbano, an open-air art gallery in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona (Spain). About The Mural The March artist for the Project 12+1 by Contorno Urbano in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is Elbi Elem. In her new piece titled “The ring”, she uses the architecture elements and colors that …

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