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HKwalls Street Art Festival, Hong Kong 2017

April 2, 2017

HKwalls returned this March for a nine-day celebration of street art and creative collaboration in the industrial district of Wong Chuk Hang. From 18th to 26th March the festival engaged the public with an incredible line-up of live mural painting, a print exhibition featuring the artists and more. Continuing their mission to create public art […]

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Fintan Magee, Paradox Tauranga Street art Festival 2017. Photo credit Luke Shirlaw

PARADOX : Tauranga Street Art Festival, New Zealand, 2017

April 1, 2017

Tauranga is the most populous city in the ‘Bay of Plenty’ region of the north island of New Zealand and is the fifth largest urban area. Tauranga is one of New Zealand’s main centres for culture and fashion … and now street art! Tauranga Street Art Festival saw six of the world’s finest street artists […]

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Anti-advertising campaign hits Hyderabad, the city of hoardings, India 2017

March 31, 2017

Two artists Dia Metha Bhupal and Daku, just took on the city of Hyderabad, also known as the city of hoardings. The two artists, each with their own styles, wanted to put an end to the visual pollution and advertising vandalism which alters our minds, the landscape, architecture and perception of the environment. Hence, challenging […]

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Street Artist M-City transforms 18-metre bus to raise awareness about the global humanitarian crisis, Norway 2017

March 31, 2017

In the same week that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveiled his latest artwork tackling the on-going refugee crisis, M-City turned the streets of Stavanger into waterways with his creation for the city’s fleet of Street Art buses. M-City is an artist and lecturer at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland. He is best-known for […]

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#SubvertTheCity, Subvertisers International Anti-Advertisement Takeover, March 2017.

‘Subvertisers International’ Anti-Advertising Movement goes Global, March 2017

March 30, 2017

A global network of anti-advertising activists, PublicAdCampaign, Brandalism, NoADDay, and like minded friends, have come together to form a transnational partnership called the Subvertisers International. This umbrella organisation released a call for action between March 22nd and March 25th 2017 for a global anti-advertising movement in all its forms. All towns and cities are now overwhelmed with commercial advertising, […]

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STIK waves the Rainbow Flag of Pride at Christies Auction, 2017

March 29, 2017

The official ‘Pride’ banner for the borough of Hackney made by International artist Stik is to be sold at Christies auction house to raise funds for the LGBTQ+ charity. The banner was paraded through London mounted on a London taxi at the 2016 ‘Pride is London’ parade and has been on loan to Hackney Museum, […]

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Gaia, Changeville. Photo credit Iryna Kanishcheva

Street Artist Gaia Paints in Virtual Reality for Changeville: Gainesville’s Social Change Festival, 2017

March 27, 2017

Baltimore-based prominent street art muralist Gaia was recently invited by Iryna Kanishcheva and Daniel Pimentel to paint in virtual reality for Changeville: Gainesville’s Social Change Festival where he also was offered the opportunity to create another wall for the Grove Street Neighbourhood project. Named “Poetics”, the mural features the portraits of Jack Kerouac, renowned beat […]

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Space Invader RBA_04, Invasion of Rabat. Photo credit Invader

Space Invader’s Invasion of Rabat, Morocco 2017

March 24, 2017

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. We last saw the […]

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Street Artist Ruben Ubiera’s Life Size Whale Mural creates Shock Waves in Gainesville, Florida 2017

March 24, 2017

Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans is PangeaSeed’s groundbreaking public art project that brings the oceans into the streets around the world. They collaborate with some of today’s most renowned contemporary artists to create large-scale public murals that address pressing environmental issues the oceans are facing by forging a synthesis between public art, nature, and society. […]

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Joachim’s Graffiti Art Pops Up in Brussels, Belgium 2017

March 23, 2017

Street artist Joachim has been busy re decorating and painting his graffiti pop characters in Brussels, Belgium for his latest solo show “Till Death Do Us ‘Art”, in collaboration with The Crystal Ship and Huberty & Breyne organised by Rebecca Prosper and Elisa Huberty. Joachim was presented with a mission to transform the old run down […]

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Banksy’s Art at The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem

March 18, 2017

The newly opened Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem is a one-of-a-kind art installation designed by the renowned British graffitist Banksy. The hotel is a fully functional space home to many of Banksy’s incredible artworks. The artist has given the hotel a unique look, styling it to resemble “an English gentleman’s club from colonial times.” This […]

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