Amnesty Collaborates With Ricky Lee Gordon in NUART Festival To Support world Activists
Amnesty International teamed up with the world’s leading street art festival NUART and South African street artist Ricky Lee Gordon in the Norwegian city of Stavanger to celebrate the bravery of human rights activists around the world. About the Project Adding his voice to Amnesty International’s ‘Brave’ campaign, Ricky Lee Gordon created a mural of Sakris Kupila, …
JR erects an Installation on the US/Mexico Border following Trump’s DACA reversal
In response to the ongoing immigration debate ranging from Trump’s proposed border wall to the DACA reversal, French artist JR erected a 70-foot installation of a boy peering over the border into the US. About The Installation Famous French artist JR installed one of his large-format photographs at Tecate, in the Mexican side of the …
XAV paints the Last Mural For Art United US
Spanish artist XAV was invited to paint his largest mural to date in Kiev (Ukraine) by Art United Us. Due to Racism the artist was forced to stop for a few days, with keeping in mind that this mural was the last mural Art United Us hosted before this initiative concluded. About The Mural The …
Kevin Ledo “Facing The Future” in Beirut for aptART by Selina Miles
Montreal based street artist Kevin Ledo just completed his brilliant mural in Sin El Fil, the eastern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut. This mural is part of aptART‘s latest project in Lebanon called Paint Outside The Lines: street art beyond the borders of race, religion, class and conflict. Entitled “Facing The Future”, this mural …
Interview with Wasp Elder
Wasp Elder is a socially engaged artist who paints pictures populated by enigmatic figures and unstressed backgrounds, enticing a sentiment of an obscure journey. His paintings present an evocative combination of solitary figures, collaged scenes, close-ups, obscured features, and potential catastrophe. Through this working process he is able to present often marginalised figures through a …
8-Acre Blighted Area in Boston transforms into Cultural Playground
Underground at Ink Block is the successful transformation of an 8-acre underpass located between Boston’s South End and South Boston neighborhoods into an active urban park, cultural attraction and parking amenity. The park opens to the public on Saturday, September 9, 2017 with a full day of programming and events including the Underground Mural Project …
Fintan Magee in Saarbrücken, Germany
Australian artist Fintan Magee just completed his latest installment a few days ago in Saarbrücken, Germany. This mural is part of an Urban Art project called Artwalk – Saarbrücken taking place in the inner city of Saarbrucken, under the artistic direction of the Saarbrücken gallery owners Patrick Jungfleisch (Reso) and Benjamin Knur. About The Mural The Australian artist …
Earth Crusher – Portrait of the artist and the man behind the machine
Whether you call him Earth Crusher, Dré or simply Marc-André, for his friends, this man is one of the must-know artists on the Montreal scene. Earth Crusher is a character. An immoral character created by the Montréal artist Dré. A pure invention. It represents the unscrupulous capitalist, shameless, imbued with itself, for whom the EARTH …
Grizzly Bear Mural Tribute by Sonny in Canada
The second installment of the South African Street Artist Sonny’s global mural tour, To The Bone was painted as part of the Cambridge International Street Art Festival in Canada and aims to raise awareness of the brutal trophy hunting of grizzly bears, which may threaten their long-term survival. Although grizzly bears have been saved from the brink of extinction in North America, …
CURA – The Third Biggest Art Festival in Brazil
From July 26th to August 6th, CURA – Urban Art Circuit‘s first edition that took place in Belo Horizonte, the capital city of southeastern Brazil’s Minas Gerais state. CURA – Urban Art Circuit is the first mural festival in Belo Horizonte, and the third of its kind in Brazil. About The Festival Featuring four large scale murals, located …
Kevin Ledo in Beirut, Lebanon
Montreal based street artist Kevin Ledo just completed his brilliant mural in Sin El Fil, the eastern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut. This mural is part of aptART‘s latest project in Lebanon called Paint Outside The Lines: street art beyond the borders of race, religion, class and conflict. About The Mural Entitled “Facing The …
Under Pressure Festival 2017
This is the 22nd year in a row that Under Pressure Festival is held in Montreal from August 9th until 13th. Overview of a festival not like any other. Under Pressure, or UP for those in the know, describes itself as a graffiti festival, but it actually is way more than that. At the beginning, in …