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

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HOY- Villa Francisca is an urban art and community festival, initiated by Modafoca. Its goal is to transform the Villa Francisca neighborhood with art, highlighting cultural and social values within this area of the Dominican Republic’s capital.  In its second year,  Dominican born, Miami based artist Evoca1 was invited along with other local artists to leave …

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The Stadt Wand Kunst (SWK) festival in Mannheim, Germany, is a world class event that brought international muralists to the streets of Mannheim. It’s no surprise, then, that Waone was invited to paint a wall this year. Waone’s mural entitled Jump Through time, is a metaphor about time travel; it explores moments when your mind …

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The World Cup is billed as an event that occurs every four years, and literally speaking that’s true. The 2018 event is over: France won the Cup, and the festivities have already moved on from Russia. It’ll be another four years before the world gathers again, this time in Qatar, to watch what many believe …

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Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann, collectively known as Telmo Miel, are a Dutch duo hailing from Rotterdam. In the [street] art world, their work is arguably some of the best that you’ll find out there – I mean, it’s outstanding. OK, sure, I may be a little biased here because admittedly, I’m a huge ‘appreciator’ …

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You may have heard of the Nashville Walls Project or the 2017 documentary Saving Banksy. Well, Brian Greif, owner and co-founder of 2:32 AM Projects played an important role in getting both projects off the ground – and very successfully, I might add. Greif is an art enthusiast who feels that street art and graffiti are equally important movements – …

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BLOOP Festival, the Ibizan avant-garde event based on the ethos “Art is for everybody” will come back to the white isle for its 8th consecutive edition kicking off August 23 until September 8 2018. Prior to the launch a colossal preview mural landed in the heart of Ibiza based on this year’s festival’s theme, HOPE. …

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The leading Street Art Festival, Nuart, in Stavanger, Norway have commissioned a series of curated Street Art Buses with the latest courtesy of Belgian stencil artist Jaune titled “Unsung Heroes.” For this project the urban interventionist from Brussels transformed an 18-meter bus into a giant cardboard box with two contrasting scenes on either side. He …

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When you think about Italy’s Lombardy region, you’re probably thinking Milan, gastronomy or Lake Garda. You’re likely not thinking about Mantova, a city located south of Lake Garda, or of Lunetta, a municipality that’s tucked away within Mantova (did you know that Mantova is a UNESCO World Heritage site?). Well, it might surprise you to …

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Located in the heart of Paris-13, where large-scale murals are not an uncommon sight, you’ll find Galerie Mathgoth. Founded by Mathilde and Gautier Jourdain, two passionate art collectors with a particular fondness for urban art, Mathgoth is dedicated to supporting global artists via shows and print releases. They are also well-known for their involvement in curating massive …

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Swiss street art duo NEVERCREW address the true order of things from a natural, rather than human perspective in their newest piece completed in June for Street Art Festival Chur. The massive-scale mural, titled “Home Ground” pays homage to not only the large structure whose facade it adorns, but also “the local traditions, the events …

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In May 2018, urban art advocate Rebobinart launched its Womart initiative with intentions to promote the visibility of women in this particular field and the entire artistic industry at large. By offering ten different female artists of widely varying styles the opportunity to participate in artistic “interventions” in ten different Catalan cities, Womart seeks to …

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Street art, typically the archetypal representation of counterculture and rebellion, can sometimes prove even more effective in subverting the powers that be when it contributes to the beautification of one of mankind’s most regimented aspects of the “system”: defense. Such a goal is achieved through Dutch duo Telmo Miel’s most recent piece “As Far As …

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