Internationally travled street artist ABOVE has outfitted a mannequin in classic yuppie attire, bagged his head and hung him above his Occupy Wall Street-themed mural in Wynwood, Miami. There he sways, briefcase dribbling dollar bills, over I-95, inscribed below with “Give a Wall St. banker enough rope and he will hang himself.” Grizzly. Looks more like an execution than a suicide, we’d say. Is there any way to make this more disturbing? Yes. Fox News has cropped the context out for you, because “This Is NOT Art … It Is Sick.” Obviously, it cannot be both.

Nowadays, when a Banksy piece goes up, it’s either defaced or more likely, stolen and fellow street artist ABOVE finds the latter somewhat ironic: “The artist paints illegally with spray cans on a wall, while the thieves jack hammer and chip off illegally painted walls, illegally.” It’s the inspiration for his latest piece in Paris that speaks to both these unlawful outcomes. Video of the process below. Read more »

After baring it all at a public shower in Copenhagen, street artist ABOVE continues his European tour with a stop to “Bridge the Divide” in Berlin. Using stencils and a spare hand, the traveling artist installed his latest piece at the Berlin Wall: an arm extending a bouquet as a “gesture of unity” between the two sides of the barrier that fell 20 years ago. Video of the tourist trapping installation and giant roller action below. Read more »

Street artist ABOVE is kicking off a new European tour in Copenhagen, where he’s installed his latest work, “The Naked Truth.” With stencils and bathroom hardware the globe-trotting artist turned a piece of fencing into a revealing display. See the video after the jump and the photos above for a peek behind ABOVE’s curtain. Read more »

Street artivist ABOVE, released these new “Union Jack Arrows” prints which feature some locally-inspired work he painted on the streets of London during a 14-country tour of Europe in 2005. “We think this prints image and reflection transforms the already good looking UNION JACK motif transform into something mesmerizing,” he writes of the 7-color hand pulled print, which comes as a 70 print edition in traditional red and blue, as well as a 20 print “special edition” in orange and green.

This past year public street painter ABOVE went on a SouthCentral Tour—no not LA. This video clip is part 3 of that mission, which included beautifying Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Columbia, Guatemala. If you haven’t seen parts 1 and 2 click over. Still interested? He’s even got signature arrow styled prints for sale.