Urban Art News

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Ella & Pitr, Klepp Nuart festival 2015

August 28, 2015

The world’s largest outdoor single mural has been completed in Klepp, Rogaland, in just four hot days for the Nuart Festival, Norway. French artists Ella & Pitr have worked at lightning-quick pace to cover Block Berge Bygg’s 21,000m2 roof on the outskirts of Stavanger and created a beautiful new addition to the Rogaland landscape. Luckily for […]

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24 hours in Banksy’s Dismaland, Weston-super-Mare

August 24, 2015

After months of watching people come and go and witnessing peculiar events within the confines of the old Lido walls, the abandoned Tropicana site is finally ready to open its doors to the local residents of Weston-super-Mare. The site is all set to host the much-awaited Banksy show, ‘Dismaland, Bemusement Park.’ The GraffitiStreet team arrives […]

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No Limits Borås, Sweden 2015

August 15, 2015

On the 3rd until the 6th of September 2015, the Swedish town Borås will once again open it’s walls to public art for the ‘No Limits Street Art Festival’ curated by fellow street artist Shai Dahan. This will be the second year that Shai has invited artists to paint the town of Borås. The No […]

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Bordalo II’s Trash Puppy and Trash Kitten: Art Against Pet Abandonment

August 5, 2015

Bordalo II’s pet abandonment art transforms discarded waste into Trash Puppy and Trash Kitten, confronting animal abandonment and the idea of treating pets as disposable.

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PUBLIC ART HORSENS 2015

August 1, 2015

Horsens is an old Danish city that lies at the end of Horsens Fjord in eastern Jutland. In recent years, much effort has been made to expand and improve cultural events. Several internationally known music artists, such as Madonna, Iron Maiden, Elton John, Bob Dylan,David Bowie, José Carreras, R.E.M., Paul McCartney,The Rolling Stones, U2 and Snow […]

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Street Art, Vienna

July 12, 2015

The Vienna I knew was teeming with stunningly beautiful architecture and gorgeous parks. History is at every corner alongside the traditional schnitzel (typically overhanging your dinner plate), opera and famous coffee houses. The prominent museums and palaces are jam-packed with classic nobilities and historical events, but the streets; well that’s a new history in the […]

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Space Invader’s Invasion of the European Space Agencies, 2015

July 10, 2015

Space Invader is the pseudonym of a well-known French urban artist whose work is modelled on the crude pixellation of 1970s-1980s 8-bit video games. He took his name from the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders, and much of his work is composed of square ceramic tiles inspired by video game characters. The Invader has made […]

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Graffiti-Jam at Graffitistraat, Ghent

July 10, 2015

Since 2005 Graffiti-vzw have been organising an annual Graffiti-Jam as part of Puntanderelijn in the Belgium city of Ghent. Their aim is to make Ghent more colourful, inviting and surprising!! This year, Graffiti-vzw decided to concentrate on local upcoming talent, giving these artists exposure, expo’s and legal zones (4 zones so far here in the small […]

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Bordalo II’s London Trash Rat: From East London Waste to Underground Street Art

July 8, 2015

Bordalo II London Rat was created for GraffitiStreet’s Underground Group Show in Shoreditch in 2015, using discarded materials collected across East London. This refreshed feature looks back at the making of the monumental trash animal, its connection to London’s underground culture, and the ecological force behind Bordalo II’s Big Trash Animals.

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Aptart Gaza 2015

Eyes of Gaza… One year on

July 8, 2015

The 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, also known as ‘Operation Protective Edge’ was a military operation launched by Israel on 8th July 2014 in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. One year since Israel launched the 50-day military operation inside Gaza, 9,000 homes are still piles of rubble and hundreds of thousands of families are still homeless. The war […]

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GraffitiStreet ‘Underground’ Group Show in pictures

July 5, 2015

GraffitiStreet held our second urban group show title ‘Underground‘ in the street art mecca of Shoreditch, London on the 2nd July 2015 for one night only! With over four hundred strong attendance, the exhibition had a great vibe and we were stoked you all enjoyed the group show. For all of you that missed hanging out […]

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