Blek Le Rat Tours Texas and Tennessee
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 …
Mural By Luis Gomez de Teran In Rome
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 …
Catching Up With Engy Al Garf, An Egyptian Artist based in NYC
I covered Engy Al Garf’s innovative heat map mural in Giza back in November, and impossibly drawn in by her thoughtful style, began following her career. When I learned through Instagram that she had recently moved to New York, I endeavored to meet the artist in person. She suggested the Upper East Side, an area …
Is Urban History Repeating Itself In Lynn, MA?
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 …
Horsepower: A Mural By Daas in Jacksonville, FL
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 …
Our Own Top 10 Murals Of 2018
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, …
WARNING: This story might pique cat lovers all over the world.
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 …
“Let It Fly” By Artez In Izmir, Turkey
“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. …
SAUS’ Ten Influential Murals Of 2018
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 …
12+1 Project Ends 2018 With 4 Murals In The Barcelona Area
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 …
Our 2018 Top 20 Images on Facebook
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 …
The 2018 Basel House Mural Festival
Amongst all the posturing and partying that takes place at an infamous institution like Art Basel, events like the sixth annual Basel House stay focused on the genuine passion for art that lies at the heart of it all. This year’s free event featured a 40,000-square foot mural festival that hosted fifty muralists from around the world in …