NUART ABERDEEN 2023 ROUND UP
It’d been 4 years since my last Nuart Aberdeen experience, and this time I had the luxury of being on the scene prior to the festival starting in full. This year’s festival theme was Rewilding, and as always, the line up of artists and speakers was impressive, as was their commitment to the exploration of …
LANDSCAPE X ARCHITECTURE X ART
From the Louvre, to El Prado or Rijksmuseum, fascinating constructions all over the world have safeguarded and preserved art for our pleasure. Yet inside such imposing art temples, one can often feel small, perchance disconnected. Confined to a closed space, albeit amazing from an architectural standpoint, we reach more often than not, a level of …
The Falling Angels
Scorched. Damaged. Bitten. Wounded. Undermined. Abused. Falling, falling… fallen? JDL Street Art once again grips us where it hurts the most, mirroring our freefall into a manmade darkness that can only last while we willingly give in and give out, while we willingly surrender to the dive and accelerate the fall. Falling, but not yet …
If Stonemasons Could Talk
What would they say? From hand chiseling blocks of stone to shaping, polishing and leveling stones with the use of a wide range of sophisticated power tools, these unsung heroes have been romancing the stone since the ancient times, contributing to the development of historic and modern structures. David de la Mano and Pablo S. …
My Right To Breathe
Fighting for basic human rights is quite an understatement for the Beiruti in me. From the right to health, education, water, electricity – not to mention basic women and people with challenges’ rights for equality – the list is endless and has literally become a survival roadmap for any local. Yet one basic and global …
Nuart Aberdeen ‘23 Line-up Revealed
Nuart Aberdeen is back in full force this year with yet another stellar line up to grace the streets of Scotland’s “Granite City.” The theme for this year’s festival is “Rewilding,” a subject that touches on many issues related to “Trespass and Transgression,” a topic extensively explored by the ingenious Nuart Journal associates during the …
The Future Was Born Yesterday
Hitting fifty might be a brutal and rough rite of passage. Some experiences seem incomplete, while others may have taken their toll and brutally accelerated our sinking into decrepitude. Yet in this day and age, fifty is the new twenty and the creative transformation of Abidjan’s La Pyramide (Côte d’Ivoire) is simply a case in point. …
Mural By Robert Montgomery In Trondeheim Airport, Norway
The latest public work by British contemporary artist Robert Montgomery has just been completed in the city of Trondheim (situated where the River Nidelva meets Trondheim Fjord) in Central Norway. Montgomery is well known for his work in public space and billboard poems. He also makes light works, fire poems, woodcuts, paintings and watercolours. His …
These USA murals are in the running for “best street art of 2022”
For the 2nd year in a row Street Art Cities is looking fort he most popular street art of last year and your vote counts. Like last year, Street Art Cities has been following the scene all year long from up close, with every month a round up of 100 fresh and beautiful murals from …
Love Is Stronger Than Death – A Mural Series About Cancer by JDL Street Art
During a television broadcast on May 30, 2022, a huge painting by Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw, also known as JDL Street Art, was revealed in the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The painting ‘Brightness in the clouds of cancer’ is an immense mural that Judith made especially for KWF Dutch Cancer …
When art represents an everyday memory: the story of Giada and her grandfather Tonino
For this year’s edition of LuceFest, in the small village of San Pietro Magisano in Calabria, Italy a hyper-realistic and hyper-impressive mural was painted by the artist Slim Safont. The aim of the festival, which took place from August 28 to September 6, is to give a new face to degraded or abandoned landscapes in …
Duality: A Graffiti Story – Voice to the Voiceless
I feel a wild mix of emotions after watching Duality, A Graffiti Story (released October21st) the documentary produced by Buffalo 8, an LA-based production company. It feels dense and packed, like the works of graffiti it’s presenting, so much story to tell, in too little time. It feels like life on the edge, just barely …