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Can a wall be a hug? ADD FUEL’s mural says YES it can! Lisbon 2020

July 24, 2020

A hug is a wonderful thing, it communicates support, security, affection, unity, and belonging, but can a wall be a hug? That was the idea behind ADD FUEL’s new mural in Lisbon. The mural entitled ‘Amplexo’, means hug and embrace, and inspired by the wonderful work of Casa Pia de Lisboa. A wall built not to separate, […]

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MARTHA COOPER: TAKING PICTURES at URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART, Autumn 2020

July 23, 2020

The URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART presents a six-decade retrospective of Martha Cooper’s photographs this Autumn 2020. Combining photographs and personal artefacts, MARTHA COOPER: TAKING PICTURES will be the world’s biggest retrospective of Martha Copper’s work to date. It will trace her life from her first camera in a nursery school in 1946 […]

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Nils Westergard and SillyGenius Powerful Mural ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ in Richmond, Virginia 2020

July 22, 2020

Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, has become a national epicentre of the Black Lives Matter movement, with the towering 19m Robert E. Lee statue as its focal point. Now covered with anti-racist graffiti, this statue and other racist statues across the world have become a place for powerful protests against systemic racism and police […]

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Bloop Festival returns to Ibiza to Celebrate its 10th Anniversary, August 2020

July 22, 2020

BLOOP being the world’s first festival entirely dedicated to Proactive Art, with the ethos “ART IS FOR EVERYBODY”, returns to Ibiza this year for its 10th anniversary, celebrating a decade of beautiful memories. The month-long festival starts on the 6th of August and continues until the 5th of September, and remains an entirely free and […]

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Banksy’s back from Lockdown and Sprays the London Underground! 2020

July 14, 2020

Banksy has just released a video on his Instagram page of him ‘deep cleaning’ the London underground tube, with a little help from his rats. The freshly released video initially shows Banksy watching the video ‘London Underground – undergoes deep clean’. The footage highlights the London Underground train carriages being deep cleaned multiple times a […]

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The Crystal Ship Welcomes Three New Murals, Oostende Belgium, 2020

July 10, 2020

The 5th-anniversary edition of The Crystal Ship was sadly cancelled in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic and public safety concerns. However, with the summer months bringing more positive news, ‘The Crystal Ship’ couldn’t let a year go by without some street art intervention, so they invited DFace, Case Maclaim and Elisa Capdevila to paint […]

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BLACK LIVES MATTER Pavement Mural by TATS Cru and Family, Manhattan NYC 2020

July 4, 2020

Eighties Bronx-based graffiti artists TATS Cru and an invited family of artists have collectively completed painting a huge 600 foot pavement mural dedicated to the #blacklivesmatter movement. The pavement mural can be seen in Manhattan, New York City. Artists involved in painting the mural include; BG183 TATS Cru, Bio TATS Cru, Nicer TATS Cru, The amazing Ske, Martha Licia, Ericorr, […]

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Saype’s “World in Progress” landart celebrates the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, 2020

June 26, 2020

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, in San Francisco on 26th June 1945, Switzerland has gifted the UN a giant poetic, ecological and ephemeral work of 6000 m² produced by artist SAYPE, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Swiss-French artist Saype works on his giant […]

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‘CARNIVAL IS CANCELLED’ Case Maclaim for ‘Out in the Open’, Aalborg 2020

June 26, 2020

For the first time in 38 years, the biggest carnival in Northern Europe has been cancelled. Last year, Aalborg Carnival beat their record with 85.000 participants but this year’s Carnival on 23rd of May 2020 has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The International Parade on the 15th May and the Children’s Carnival on […]

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The Avant-Garde Mural Festival ignites Positivity during COVID-19 Lockdown in Tudela, Spain 2020

June 19, 2020

The ‘Avant-Garde‘ mural festival has been taking place during June in Tudela, Spain. A welcome break from the uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mural event, curated by Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada and organised by Tudela-Cultura (concejalía de cultura del Ayuntamiento de Tudela) took place from 8th to 14th of June 2020. Artists invited include Miss […]

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Banksy Supports the Toppling of the Edward Colston Statue in his Home City of Bristol, 2020

June 9, 2020

Banksy has unveiled a new piece of art on his Instagram account inspired by the anti-racism protestors who pulled down the statue of Edward Colston from its pedestal and rolled him into the river Avon in his home city of Bristol. Banksy’s new artwork shows anti-racism protesters pulling down the statue of the 17th-century slave […]

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