COVID-19
Know your place citizen – consume!
German street artist LAPIZ doesn’t mince words. He didn’t leave a long career in science for the nagging uncertainty of an artist’s life to lurk around important insights — he wants to drive right at the source. While the world was plunged into lockdown this year, LAPIZ remained active around his native Hamburg, shedding some …
Comforting Sounds By Evoca1 In Lynn, MA
There was a time around April or May that I began to sneer at phrases like “now more than ever” and words like “unprecedented,” all of them co-opted by corporations trying to convince me they cared. It is possible my derision distracted me from the true matter at hand. It feels impossible to grasp this …
Gerada Paints A 27,500 sq-ft Mural in Queens Commemorating Dr. Ydelfonso Decoo
“Wealth is the vector,” sociologist Tressie McMillan Cotton tweeted on March 24th, 2020 regarding the then-escalating coronavirus pandemic. The tweet was then quoted by a Buzzfeed article which highlighted how this virus gained powerful wings through the bodies of affluent individuals fleeing urban areas for remote vacation homes. “The virus travels via people, and the …
Liberty Suspended! New Street Art Intervention by LAPIZ
“There’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch.’” Over the course of my life, I’ve heard this from family, friends, and my professors in business school. I have avidly sought to disprove the point. I’d like to eradicate this idea of an everlasting quid pro quo and confidently assert that good deeds can exist in …
Global Creative Initiative Stay Art Home By PEJAC
The spectacular Spanish artist PEJAC occupies a special class of public artists who pushes their medium to new levels. He has painted Spain’s oldest prison with a project that declared the existence of common, uniting humanity. He has installed climate change awareness in the middle of the sea. The artist’s own biography states his commitment …
Coronavirus Sucks!
Greetings, it’s great to see you here! Have you been scouring the internet, waiting for your favorite outlets to publish new content, waiting for Street Art United States to bring you the latest and greatest artistic interventions from around the globe? Of course you have. We all have. For the most part, we’re all locked …