A Stunning Mural By Fintan Magee Paying Tribute To Front Line Workers
Come hell or high water, street artists simply want to paint. We’ve seen this principle play out over the course of the pandemic, as international artists have turned their talents to the far-flung countries where they’re based. Illustrious Australian powerhouse Fintan Magee is no different. Magee recently completed a new mural in Queensland, Australia for …
“Close Up” A Mural By Nevercrew For Arte Urbana Lugano, Switzerland
Nevercrew has created a magnificent new mural titled “Close Up” for Arte Urbana Lugano, Switzerland. The artists say, “This work wants to evoke at the same time an estrangement and a focus on a little part of the balance in which we’re all involved. A perceptual estrangement from the overall balance, from the awareness of …
‘Le Pêcheur’ A Mural By TelmoMiel In Boulogne, France
The Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann duo TelmoMiel (who joke that they look like Dutch Viking brothers) have just completed two breathtaking murals in Boulogne, France. Their beautiful hyper-realistic pieces grace many epic walls around the globe, and these ultra-talented artists are recognized as some of the greatest in their field. The ingenuity of fusing their independent visions to work as a single …
‘TAIÑ MAPU’ A Mural By INTI At Kirk Gallery In Aalborg, Denmark
Inti Castro, artistically known as INTI (meaning sun in Quechua), is one of Latin America’s foremost street artists. He has just completed a stunning mural in Aalborg, Denmark as part of the 6th edition of the mural project ‘Out in the Open’ series by KIRK Gallery. This striking new mural titled ‘TAIÑ MAPU / Our Land’, …
Add Fuel Paints Two Murals in Portugal
Though the world is still dealing with travel restrictions and stilted circles, Portuguese visual artist Diogo Machado, known from walls internationally as Add Fuel, is still crafting breathtaking facades. The artist recently completed two domestic walls, one in Lisbon, and the other in Caldas da Raigna, two cities close to Cascais, where the artist lives …
The Winner of the “TOwardTOmorrow” Art Competition Announced
While the coronavirus pandemic is still far from over, the situation’s cultural frenzy certainly peaked in an unprecedented fashion this Spring. It has been generations since the entire world bore the brunt of a crisis in the fashion those widespread lockdowns entailed. This time, we saw how progress has altered our society. Many turned to …
Rustam QBic Paints A Mural Diptych In Neftekamsk, Russia
Russian artist Rustam QBic conjures fantastical murals fit for a storybook world. The lands depicted across his body of work transcend the laws of mortal reality. Here, blooming flowers, shells, trees and seas call the shots. However, the artist’s recent work, a mural diptych titled “Voinushka,” dabbles in an area of his fantasy land which …
‘Carnival is Cancelled’ The Latest Mural by Case Maclaim in Aalborg, Denmark
The “carnival” has been cancelled globally in the spring of 2020. As we are all painfully aware, the whole world has been locked down and the Covid 19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on all lives, businesses and events. Within this context, German artist Andreas Von Chrzanowski, aka Case Maclaim, has recently completed a large …
Gerada Paints A 27,500 sq-ft Mural in Queens Commemorating Dr. Ydelfonso Decoo
“Wealth is the vector,” sociologist Tressie McMillan Cotton tweeted on March 24th, 2020 regarding the then-escalating coronavirus pandemic. The tweet was then quoted by a Buzzfeed article which highlighted how this virus gained powerful wings through the bodies of affluent individuals fleeing urban areas for remote vacation homes. “The virus travels via people, and the …
Liberty Suspended! New Street Art Intervention by LAPIZ
“There’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch.’” Over the course of my life, I’ve heard this from family, friends, and my professors in business school. I have avidly sought to disprove the point. I’d like to eradicate this idea of an everlasting quid pro quo and confidently assert that good deeds can exist in …
Nuart’s 20th Anniversary Lockdown Edition Paste-Ups.
In a world of eight billion voices, I believe statistics is the only unbiased force to be trusted. I venerate the proverbial ‘bell curve’ as if it were a near-divine concept, this idea that the normal distribution governs every area of our earthly lives. This view means that as the COVID-19 crisis mounted, I assumed …
Kirk Gallery’s ‘Inside Out’ show in Aalborg, Denmark
As with many other galleries around the world, Kirk Gallery has been closed to the public and only open by appointment for the past month and a half due to Covid-19. Since the situation has rapidly improved in Denmark and the authorities have decided to start opening up again, so will the gallery, with a stellar …