Natasha Poly Goes Full Frontal for Vogue Spain

Russian supermodel Natasha Poly is front and center in this revealing Vogue Spain editorial, where her only form of attire are a few gold bangles on each wrist. Captured by photographer team Inez Van Lemsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin – though I don’t see how you’d ever need two people to shoot this – Poly shows off her completely nude, Kate Moss-esque body in a series of blatantly NSFW poses, spotlessly-manicured vagina and all. If you ask me, es muy aburrido!

Luzinterruptus Street Crew Puts Glowing Nipples on Everything

De-light-ful Spanis interventionists Luzinterruptus have taken over Madrid’s public art. Why so serious? So guarded? So heavily under video surveillance, behind fences, huffy, unwelcoming? In a three hour installation Touch! Play! Nothing Happens!, the crew outfitted the city’s statues and sculptures with many, many glow-bulb-equipped nipples. Nipples all over! Nipples! Nipples! Nipples! For a moment there, the stone slabs and blobs were that much more approachable, huggable and pinch-able. Tee-hee-hee.

Come September, Dirt Aglow Anew

Spotting Madrid’s construction trenches are 200 lit Chinese cocktail umbrellas. Street intervention crew Luzinterruptus made a filthy heap of earth and trash near a cluster of bookshops and gambling dens all luminous. See their latest: Come September.

Crucified Chickens and I’m Not So Cute, Sorry


Speaking of rotting chicken-corpse art, here’s another ephemeral street sculpture featuring our de-feathered martyrs. Spain’s Rallito X new street pieces are cross-heavy, Goya-influenced and googly-mad-eyed. See them shake their monster spawn and terrifying junk all over Girona and Madrid below. Read more »

Eighty Glowing Bodies Floating in the River


Luzinterruptus’ latest intervention set the small provincial village of Molinicos, Spain aglow with eighty Floating Presences. An 80-strong “army of floating beings” populated the village for a day, radiating blue all the way down the creek. Read more »

World Leaders Lampooned, Torched At Pagan Festival

Every year, people gather to party and set fire to massive sculptures and yet this festival has nothing to do with Burning Man. Spain’s annual ‘Las Fallas’ fiesta in Valencia, dates back 500 years and concludes with fireworks and the ritualistic torching of highly sarcastic, paper mache effigies that are positioned throughout the city. Read more »

Parting Shot: Meta-Vandalism

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Spanish street artist, ESCIF, put up this piece in Valencia that depicts a creative buffing of graffiti writer SHOT and even includes a vandal leaving a final touch. |Ekosystem|

Parting Shot: Game Over

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Following his recent stint in New York, Madrid-based street artist Spy pulled off a spoilsport intervention, bricking over a soccer goal in Spain and rendering the court unusable. |Ekosystem|

Sam3 Helps Billboards Get in to Fall Spirit

After his continuous line portrait on a building in Queens, Sam3 is back in Spain, hitting billboards. Noting that “in the autumn the leaves fall,” the street artist enlisted one of his silhouetted figures to trash some old ads in the city of Murcia. |Sam3|

Photo by Sam3

Parting Shot: Freeloading

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A lazy crow found a brilliant way to cruise for food, clinging on to the back of a vulture above Soria, Spain. |The Sun|