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Street Artist Aïda Gómez and the Green Illusion, Hamburg

October 10, 2020

The phrase “the grass is always greener on the other side” is a well-known idiom that suggests that people tend to believe that others have it better than themselves. However, in some cases, the grass really is greener on the other side, but it’s not because of natural reasons. Instead, it’s done through artificial means, […]

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NeSpoon’s Vintage Lace Mural Envelops the Lace and Fashion Museum, Calais 2020

October 7, 2020

The Museu of Lace and Fashion invited Polish street artist NeSpoon to create a large mural in her intricate crochet and lace style. The Museu of Lace and Fashion can be found in Calais, northern France. This area is famous for its lace-making tradition. In the early nineteenth century, a group of tulle making mechanics, […]

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Artist Saype’s Worldwide Symbolic Human Chain extends to Turin, 2020

October 1, 2020

French-Swiss artist Saype’s worldwide ‘Beyond walls Project’ extends his symbolic human chain to Turin. In a polarizing world, the artist chooses to symbolically create the largest human chain in the world to invite us to benevolence and to live together: the Beyond Walls project. A combination of pairs of intertwined hands, painted on the ground across […]

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Pahnl’s – ‘EPIPHANY’ Print: Behind the scenes 2020

October 1, 2020

Life stopped as we knew it in 2020 and a unique opportunity for self- and world-reflection was thrust into our ‘normal’ lives. Like the butterfly, a transformative period was cast upon us. We have learnt that the world doesn’t shape itself to accommodate us, and we need to grow the life we wish for, not […]

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Parees Festival, Mural Intervention Festival of Oviedo Spain, 2020

October 1, 2020

The fourth edition of the Parees 2020, Mural Intervention Festival of Oviedo (north of Spain), has just wrapped up another great year despite the global pandemic! With strict COVID-19 measurements in place, four new murals have been added to the street art city map, from a total of 22 that have been created since the […]

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“Invader was here” exhibition-invasion MAMO, Cité Radieuse Art Center, Marseille 2020

September 30, 2020

From August 28, the MaMo, a contemporary art centre founded by Ora Ito, presented “INVADER WAS HERE”, an invasion-exhibition. Invader has made MaMo the strategic base of a major invasion-exhibition and stretched the format of the exhibition to that of the invasion, “INVADER WAS HERE” leaving mosaics in the city of Marseille. Invader worked in […]

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BLOOP ‘mirco’ Festival Celebrates a Massive 10 years Creating Art for Everybody, IBIZA 2020

September 30, 2020

BLOOP has just wrapped up its 10th year micro edition addressing the theme MEMORY in relation to 2020, a memorable year for all of us! This year the Festival was one of the very few events in Europe and Ibiza’s summer 2020 agenda, besides its abundant natural heritage due to the closures of the world-renowned […]

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Emmanuel Jarus’s UN75 Mural addresses inequality and zero hunger, NYC 2020

September 27, 2020

In honour of its 75th anniversary, the United Nations (UN) has teamed up with Street Art for Mankind (SAM) to create a series of murals around the world. The first mural in this unique UN75 series takes pride of place in midtown Manhattan, a few blocks away from the UN Headquarters, at 243 East 44th Street and was completed […]

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Xenz creates a Concrete Jungle in Sandvika, Norway

September 27, 2020

“Graffiti to me is like a bird or a flower from somewhere far away that you don’t usually see. I´ve always loved the irony that I can use a spray can to decorate as well as to damage, but ultimately I like to make beautiful paintings. It’s not always about destruction. That´s my take on it anyway.”  Xenz British street […]

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New Landmark Sculpture ‘Holding Hands’ by Street Artist STIK in Hoxton Square, London 2020

September 24, 2020

Hackney-based artist STIK has unveiled his first public sculpture, a 4m tall bronze sculpture entitled ‘Holding Hands’. The project was the culmination of a four-year collaboration between STIK and Hackney Council and has been solely funded by the artist. You may recognise the image of the two ‘Holding Hands’ STIK figures, it was the official […]

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“DADDY I WANT TO PAINT A LOUSY MURAL IN SHOREDITCH!” Aida Wilde’s Anti-Gentrification Mural, London 2020

September 21, 2020

The BUILDHOLLYWOOD family of JACK, JACK ARTS and DIABOLICAL has collaborated with curator Olly Walker and artist Aida Wilde for their latest Your Space Or Mine project which gives artists and creatives a platform on the street. The collaborative project involves Walker curating the space and Wilde working with Dr.D aka Subvertiser to hand-paint a large-scale mural located in East London’s creative hub of Shoreditch, featuring […]

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