SAVE OUR SOULS: an art campaign denouncing the destruction of Indonesia’s forests and wildlife
Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic returns for a second year of Splash and Burn with a giant SOS distress call carved into the landscape of an oil palm plantation; calling attention to the ongoing destruction of Indonesia’s forests and wildlife. About The Project In tribute to the last 14,600 orangutans remaining in the wild in Sumatra (Indonesia), the cosmetics company Lush, in …
ICY & SOT Gift Wall St a Large Sculpture of Crumpled Cash
The iranian artist duo, ICY and SOT, two brothers based in Brooklyn, New York recently surprised Wall Street with an impromptu installation featuring a giant wad of crumpled cash. The car-sized wadded-up $1 bill popped up in the Financial District last weekend, ironically after the GOP Tax Reform Bill which President Trump signed into law earlier …
Last Horizon by Jerico Cabrera Carandang in Civita Castellana, Italy
Filipino born, Italian artist Jerico Cabrera Carandang recently painted a new wall for “PUBBLICA” project, an urban art residence created by Kill The Pig for the city of Civita Castellana, Italy. About The Mural Jerico Cabrera Carandang spent three months in the city of Civita Castellana for an urban art residency. During this time he …
Moniker is Coming to Brooklyn, NYC May 3 – 6, 2018
Moniker Art Fair is pleased to announce it will debut a New York City edition during New York Frieze week, open to the public May 3-6, 2018 at Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY. In the United Kingdom, Moniker has established itself as the leading fair dedicated to Urban Art and its related subcultures, bringing …
Catching up with Kevin Ledo
Kevin Ledo – November 15th, 1978 – lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Ledo finished his studies of Illustration and Design at Dawson College in 1999, and since then his artistic practice has crossed back and forth through the boundaries of mural, street art, fine art, and art installation, focusing on the human form interlaced …
Julieta xlf and Bifido Paint New Mural in Requena, Spain
The Street-Artist duo Julieta xlf and Bifido recently collaborated on a new mural in Requena, Spain. Sponsored by Ayuntamiento de Requena, the new work, titled “Le Baccanti” blends their different techniques of photorealism and illustration. About The Mural To bring the Athenian playwright to life, “Le Baccanti” depicts a girl looking at her reflection …
VALIENTE CREATIONS Launches the 12+1 Project in Sant Feliu – Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona native, Irene Valiente aka Valiente Creations recently kicked-off the 12+1 Project in Sant Feliu de Llobregat with the mural “Nare”, derived from the Latin verb fleet. Coordinated by the Contorno Urbano Foundation and Kaligrafics, the project will bring in 12 artists over the course of 12 months, interchanging one wall each month. About the …
New Mural by Beau Stanton in Nashville Honors Local Waterways
Recently the Brooklyn-based artist Beau Staton visited Nashville, Tennessee as part of the Nashville Walls Project to paint a new mural that brings attention to the waterways of Middle Tennessee and the value they bring to the area. About the Mural Located on 5th Ave in Downtown Nashville, the 75X70 foot mural shows a …
Top 5 Murals in Newtown, Australia
My home used to be Chorlton, Manchester (in the UK). Now home is Newtown, Sydney (in Australia). Culturally they are similar suburbs. Colourful, eccentric, tolerant, diverse, hip, politically involved, bohemian. Not quite separated at birth. But pretty close. I’m connected to both places by an invisible length of twine. I have on occasion, made a …
Roc Blackblock Paints New Mural that Pays Homage to Felip Pedrell
It is vital to preserve ancient buildings and monuments; they reflect history, and help to understand inhabitants who lived in different eras. For a recent restoration project in Tortosa, a small city in the south of Catalonia, the artist Roc Blackblock visited in July and December to create “At once I understand that man is …
Sonny’s Giant Amur Leopard in Far East Russia
Sonny paints a giant Amur Leopard in Vladivostok, Russia to raise awareness for these beautiful animals. With only 80 left in the wild, they are one of the world’s most endangered big cats! The mural is part of his To The Bone project that has already seen him paint large-scale murals in New York, Canada, …
30 Street-Artists Transform Mexico City’s Corporate Area into Urban Art District
The First International Fair of Urban Art, FIAU (Feria Internacional de Arte Urbano) took place during the last weekend of November in Mexico City. Organized by Graffitiworld.tv and Expo México, it achieved success on all fronts; gathering artists of different nationalities, specialists in the environment, local authorities, universities, companies and the general public. Located at …