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

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Etnik, the experienced street artist and muralist, has taken his fascination with Plato’s Sacred Geometry to another level. He has created his second installation, titled, “Hexahedron”, featuring his work with geometric forms, this time using three dimensional sculptures.  His first piece was a mural in Florida that highlighted the sacred geometric form for water, the …

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Every day, more and more artists are taking their spray cans and getting out there to prove to the world they have what it takes to earn a spot among the most recognized artists. Many don’t use their own names, but they give identity to neighborhoods and areas all across the globe. They remind us …

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I am from coal country. Though I live in New York now, I still have a special affinity for middle American culture, for gas station with worn neon signs advertising showers for truckers. I swoon over cheap motels where couples likely rendezvoused in the seventies, and dive bars where smoking indoors is still legal. I …

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Human beings, it might be conjectured, are likely to forget about the great works of art barricaded in museums big and small, when the human beings are not standing before great works of art on a daily basis. Museum attendance is usually open to the public for most of the time: however the most enabled …

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As a symbol of artistic authenticity, the popularity of street art has given rise to festivals around the world. Depending on who is putting the festival together, its purpose might range from “social-bonding [or] place-making, [to] place-marketing.” The power of street art extends beyond its provocative messages, as the addition of a large-scale, powerful mural …

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They could be wild mustangs, the three rainbow splashed horses painted running in a mural done in Jacksonville, Florida, by Jacksonville native DAAS. Though Florida is not considered part of the country’s Wild West States, the horses exude that vision of powerfully moving freedom that constitutes ideas of the Western United States. The Florida owned …

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Street art continued to take over the world in 2018, adorning cities around the globe with massive works of gigantic expression. As cultural revolutions change the way we consider economic, political and social systems, the most notable murals of the previous year found intuitive ways to express both dissent and hope. Beyond the art itself, …

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There is a popular myth that cats have a bad reputation when compared to dogs. However, despite foul rumors of cats all over the world being dispatched with violence, it is still peculiar to have a feline mural effaced. The suspects remain unknown and the artist of the mural had to come back to paint …

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“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself,” said John Wesley Powell, an American soldier, geologist, explorer and professor. Still, artists throughout history have continually sought to capture nature’s astounding beauty, perhaps paying tribute to the stunning gift it has provided us without expecting reciprocity. …

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Street-art is one of the most hybrid forms of artistic expression in our modern world. Socially, it can be used as a tool to change neighborhoods all over the world. Politically, it can voice and transcend instantly, changing rhetoric and opinion through direct communication to the masses. Murals, and public art can become influential, very …

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The seeming concrete infinity of the city, has in recent years been broken up by murals created by artists,(often former graffiti artists).  These artists have discovered legitimacy and entrance to the world of established art, by being backed by commissoners like public art focused Controno Urbano, based in Barcelona.  This December, Controno Urbano has artists …

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2018 ushered in the continued growth of street art’s monumental importance to the wider cultural sphere. Banksy made international headlines when their work “Girl With Balloon” fetched a record-shattering $1.4 million at auction before self-destructing in a botched shredding prank. The work is now titled “Love Is In the Bin” and I personally posit that …

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