Tag: Street Art
“A lot of people will sit down and watch the Oscar show this Sunday and then go and indulge in cocaine.” Street artist Plastic Jesus was just stating a simple truth when he said this to the New York Daily News, but his new sculpture, which makes the same statement, turns the words into a […]
Egyptian officials, who have in recent years arrested journalists, artists and even a popular satirist, have now confiscated a book about street art and graffiti out of fear that it is “instigating revolt.” The book, Walls of Freedom, by design professor Basma Hamdy and street artist and activist Don Stone, documents the 2011 Egyptian revolution […]
The same week that Oxygen debuted a terrible street art show, Vogue published a feature online about graffiti…or something. It’s so fucking fluffy I don’t even know where to start. While some might appreciate the mainstreaming of urban art, the House of Anna Wintour is the last place I’d expect or want to see it […]
On Tuesday night, the Oxygen Network debuted its new, horribly promoted street art show and unsurprisingly, it was just as bad as the trailers and chatter about it suggested. Look, I get it. You have to dumb things down for television, and for content like this to be successful, it needs to be a caricature […]
According to a new study published in Emotion, adding more art and nature into your life can improve your health. Researchers from UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, and the University of Pittsburgh found that positive emotions — like joy and awe triggered by a painting or a beautiful landscape (or street art) — are associated […]
Mohamed Fahmy, aka Ganzeer, is an Egyptian artist from Cairo who created work in the street both during and after the January 25th Revolution. In 2011, he was briefly detained by Egypt’s Central Security Forces during a crackdown on political dissidence. He was not deterred. And yet, he doesn’t like to be referred to as […]
ZEXOR, a graffiti writer born and bred in NYC, has been on a rampage lately, defacing (or beautifying, depending on who you talk to) one mural after another with spray paint. His main target? The Bushwick Collective, an ongoing street art project that facilitates the painting of scores of walls by urban artists. The Collective […]
When Invader was in Hong Kong last year, the French street artist peppered that city’s public spaces with his signature 8-bit style mosaics, including renditions of Hanna-Barbera cartoon great Penrod “Penry” Pooch (or as he’s better known to the world, Hong Kong Phooey). The illegally-installed work was eventually taken down by the Highways Department and […]
Since 1989, New York City subway trains have, for the most part, been completely graffiti free — an accomplishment that didn’t come easily. It took the MTA decades to eradicate the illicit urban art form from the transit system, so it’s not surprising that the agency is very particular about the type of advertising it […]
Paul Insect has been creating work in the public space since long before street art was popular and recognized as a thing. The 40-something anonymous artist, who cut his teeth with some of the UK’s most renowned outlaws and creative talents, has embellished walls without permission from London to Palestine to New York, among many […]
