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

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Supreme Dutch mural masters, Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann met at the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2012, and officially partnered up as Telmo Miel in 2017.  The unstoppable pair quickly gained international acclaim, and have created murals and exhibited in galleries in Dubai, the United States, Malta, Denmark, Sicily, Holland, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Australia, …

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“Murals, or cave or rock art, are as old as mankind itself,” begins Jérôme Thomas, in the introduction to his new book Sky’s The Limit. The sumptuously printed, handover compilation accompanies its author’s recent film documenting the tremendous undertakings of street artists in their quest to create large-scale murals. Thomas is a well-equipped authority on …

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At this year’s annual Arte Laguna Prize in Venice (Italy), Nuart’s Martyn Reed convened a Land Art/Urban Art panel intended to explore the growing pervasiveness of street art in creating “museums without walls.” Populated by professionals including Dr. Susan Hansen of Nuart, independent curator Simone Pallotta, and Mattias Givell of Wanas Konst, the discussion “[reflected], from different …

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Aberdeen in Scotland’s North East is the country’s third largest city. Famed for its granite, the light coming off the North Sea causes the pale grey stone to sparkle in the sun. The striking architecture (some dating back to the 15th Century) and statues are majestic, and the cobbled back streets are full of authentic …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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