Ernest Zacharevic, also known as ZACH, recently joined the ranks of artists enlisted to create murals in Turin, Italy as a contribution for the city’s ‘Toward 2030’ in initiative. A press release for the artist’s latest work explains that this initiative is “an awareness concept referencing the United Nations’ seventeen sustainable development goals.” The project …

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Two years after Underground at Ink Block first launched, transforming a hidden South End parking lot into a unique urban park and outdoor gallery, Boston has continued to embrace street art. From Okudart in the Seaport to Super A on the Greenway, top tier artists from around the world have made a point to come …

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New York born Oliver Vernon has just completed his largest mural to date, forming part of the 5th edition of Kirk Gallery’s “Out in the Open” mural project.  Although Oliver arrived in Aalborg with a huge, carefully printed out sketch: he found that translating this vision from paper onto such a sizeable wall was quite …

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Street art takes its creators to unpredictable places: skyscrapers’ facades, abandoned power plants, foreign nations, or any combination of the aforementioned. It can even take one to jail if they paint without permission. In his quest “to continue the conveying of his extraordinary views and art in the most peculiar places” Barcelona-based street artist PEJAC …

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The Christchurch mosque shootings were two consecutive terrorist attacks at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday Prayer on 15 March 2019.  The attacks that killed 51 people and injured 50, were carried out by a 28-year-old Australian man, described in media reports as a white supremacist and part of the alt-right. The gunman live-streamed the first …

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France is consumed by a ferocious and sustained outpouring of social unrest. The tumultuous, intermittently violent protests of the so-called Yellow Vests Movement have shaken the country since they began in November 2018, intensifying in recent weeks.   The Yellow Vests reverberate as a primal scream from working-class France at the tax-avoiding, wealth-hogging Parisian glitterati enabled by …

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New York City is an uncontested center of art world at large, including street art in particular. However, the city’s bustling center, populated by its most iconic skyscrapers and monuments, is somewhat bereft of murals. Midtown and the neighborhoods bordering its North are so heavily trafficked, so infused with the money flowing throughout them on a daily basis, …

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A phenomenal mural by Turin born artist VESOD has just been unveiled in the picturesque city of Padua, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy.  The city is intensely pretty, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal piazze and charming bridges crossing the Bacchiglione river, which once surrounded the ancient walls …

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Dutch artist Stefan Thelen, who is also known by his anti-superhero identity Super A, just wrapped up last weekend an impressive new piece of work for The Rose Kennedy Greenway in our fair city of Boston. The artist spent several days working on this hyper-realistic mural titled Resonance. About The Mural Super A is known …

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Launched in Aalborg, Denmark by the KIRK Gallery in 2014,  the recent fifth addition of the Out in the Open Mural project, brought a new roster of artists to add their designs to the city, as well as have the opportunity to show their artworks. Included in this years’ lineup was the dutch artist Joram …

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Later this month, the end of May will not only usher in the summer season, but also the beginning of a new educational art endeavor brought to fruition with help from Samantha Robison, founder and director of aptART. One Blue Sky is a new project by Laura Rodgers, Director of The Good Works Foundation. The …

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The POLI Urban Colors Project at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death. This special project features work by 2501, Luca Barcellona, Rancy and Zedz. Alongside these internationally recognized artists, 20 specially selected Politecnico students were given the opportunity to assist them, and encouraged to create either a personal or collective work. The artists have dedicated numerous …

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