Tuesday, November 18 2025

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” ― Chinua Achebe

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Kneecap Releases Powerful Film on Gaza Ahead of Glastonbury Performance

Sami Wakim June 27, 2025

Irish Rap Group Joins Forces with Artists and Activists to Demand Justice for Palestine. In a bold act of solidarity and resistance, Irish rap trio Kneecap is releasing a short film addressing the ongoing genocide in Gaza, timed to coincide with their much-anticipated performance at Glastonbury Festival. The film, titled “See it, Say it, Censored,” …

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The American Dream By Jofre Oliveras

Vittoria Benzine December 23, 2019

One’s relationship to the place where they live largely depends upon their privilege, stemming either from the environment they were born into or the circumstances affecting their life. Either way, the experience of any one place is different for every person inhabiting that place. Rankings like those provided by US News incorporate metrics considering cost …

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Banksy’s Silence on Gaza: A Surprising Shift in the Artist’s Activism

Sami Wakim November 19, 2024

Banksy, the enigmatic street artist whose works have long served as social and political commentary, has often championed the plight of the oppressed. His art has critiqued war, capitalism, and systemic injustice in stark, often haunting ways. One of his most powerful gestures was the opening of The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in 2017, …

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Interview: RONE

Sami Wakim January 27, 2015

Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an often recurring image of his so-called Jane Doe, Rone’s work attempts to locate the friction point between beauty and decay, the lavish and despoiled, creating an iconic form of urban art with a strongly emotional bent. Producing many of his early works either through …

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5 Recent Murals steeped in Femininity By Hyuro

Vittoria Benzine December 19, 2018

A woman can be so many things. She can be thoughtful and serene, like a placid lake. She can roar impetuous and ferocious like an ocean caught in turbulent gale winds. She can heal and provide nourishment in the vein of a babbling spring carrying water from mountain peaks down to the desert. A certain …

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Interview: Rustam Qbic

Sami Wakim May 5, 2016

Rustam Qbic specializes in street art that seems larger than life. His paintings are saturated with lush storybook colors and are defined by a playful sense of the absurd. Popping up in both expected and unexpected locales, his murals beautify not only the crumbling walls of derelict buildings but also that of apartment buildings. There’s …

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Legacy: A Mural By Dulk In Maui, Hawai’i for Seawalls

Interview: Hajo Müller

Our Towns – Basildon, UK

Ruben Ubiera Paints a Mural for Grove Street Neighborhood

Waste and Sustainability Artworks In Fayetteville

If Stonemasons Could Talk

Justice for Palestine

Kneecap Releases Powerful Film on Gaza Ahead of Glastonbury Performance

The American Dream By Jofre Oliveras

Banksy’s Silence on Gaza: A Surprising Shift in the Artist’s Activism

Interview: RONE

5 Recent Murals steeped in Femininity By Hyuro

Interview: Rustam Qbic

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