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German Street Artist LAPIZ Makes a Statement on Russia’s Putin, Digital Escapism & the Female Body
German street artist LAPIZ recently unveiled a nearly 10-foot tall, brightly-colored rendition of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin kissing himself on a prized wall in Munich’s Werksviertel, a vibrant urban conglomerate of modern and historical commercial, residential and cultural sites. The mural is a recreation of a piece first constructed in 2018, where it was featured …
Akumal Arts Fest Commemorates 2022 Edition with Inaugural NFT-4-Good Drop
Akumal Arts Festival celebrated its fifth edition this January, welcoming nearly 100 international artists to the seaside pueblo in Mexico’s Riviera Maya to douse paradise stucco with fresh perspectives and paint—for the first time since November 2019, following a locally-focused edition in 2020 to recenter during the pandemic. “From the first day, it was always …
Interview With TelmoMiel on their 10-Year Anniversary
Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann met in 2007. But the official start of the collaboration, however dates later in 2012, after both had completed the Academy of Art. The two artists work with a photo-realistic style with lots of contrasts. They work separately on ideas for murals and come together with the sketches to see …
UPLIFT Skate and Art Festival Brings a Splash of Urban Art to Rotherham’s Town Center
Rotherham’s town center transformed into an urban art playground Feb. 22-24, 2022, with an array of activities designed to bring out the young people of the town for a three-day interactive experience. UPLIFT festival realized a fusion of urban art colliding with Team Great Britain’s (GB) finest skaters and BMXers for a nostalgic look back …
SURFACE: A New Exhibition By Søren Solkær
Danish photographer Søren Solkær captivates with a new exhibition for Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, Netherlands featuring more than 60 portraits of international street artists with their works of art in public spaces. SURFACE by Soren Solkaer, which debuts March 19, includes a wide array of artists from graffiti pioneers and emerging artists to some …
Sperone167: bringing Italy’s pastoral margins closer towards the center.
Once the calling card of urban centers around the globe, street art continues to proliferate more remote reaches of society as spray paint loses still more of its stigma and new communities crave placemaking of their own. “Most cultural and social actions take place in the historical city centres, pushing suburbs even more to the …
Acidum Project Paints a Mural in the Shadows of Egypt’s Great Pyramids of Giza
A new public art project is unfolding the shadows of Egypt’s great Pyramids of Giza. Creative agency and urban art producer DUCO is expanding their portfolio near the soon-to-opened Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). In early 2020, DUCO spotted an opportunity and proposed the Grand Egyptian Museum Public Art Cultural Tourism (GEMPACT) to welcome more color …
Everything is Relative is the latest mural by Spanish Artist PEJAC in Madrid
If ever there were an artist capable of switching seamlessly between indoor and outdoor practice, Pejac would instantly spring to mind. Following his much-acclaimed fourth solo show in Berlin at the end of 2021, he kicked off 2022 working on the streets of Madrid. When working in the urban space, one of the elements that …
Axel Void Adorns One of Beirut’s Buildings With A Thought-provoking Mural
Spanish street artist Axel Void rounded 2021 out with a mural in Beirut that provokes fresh dialogue with the public. While recent art installations in the city by FaithXLVII and Alba Fabre Sacristán have sown sympathetic superblooms, Void’s contribution triggers something else. On a multi-story structure in Beirut, the Cadiz-based creative painted an old photograph …
Drowning in Flowers By Alba Fabre Sacristán In Beirut
Lebanon is in the midst of its largest economic recession since the civil war of 1975-1990, paired with the constant presence of political corruption and interference as outlined in a recent opinion piece by Raghida Dergham, founder and executive chairwoman of the Beirut Institute. In the same article, however, Dergham espouses the deep roots of …
Vegas’s Best Card-Themed Street Art Is At Gamblers General Store
The City of Sin is slowly transforming into the city of murals and creative works of street art. The hot dry desert has now become a popular meeting place for expressive creative artists to join together and create masterpieces of works of art and sculptures. A past article titled, ‘7 New Art Pieces Embellish Downtown Las …
Faith XLVII’s Petal Trail in Beirut Tracing Past & Present Scars Etched Into the City
World-renowned interdisciplinary artist Faith XLVII from South Africa recently traveled to Beirut, Lebanon to lend her soft sense of natural realism to the recovering city’s fragile landscape. As part of the Underline project facilitated by street art collective Persona, Faith painted a series of medicinal plants native to Lebanon on dilapidated spaces ranging from abandoned …