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Adnate Paints the Tallest Mural in the Southern Hemisphere to Celebrate Public Housing and Multiculturalism, Melbourne 2018

October 24, 2018

In one of the largest community arts projects in Australia’s history, the Collingwood Housing Estate has transformed through street art. Minister for Planning, Richard Wynne MP and Juddy Roller have teamed up with renowned street artist Matt Adnate to create the tallest mural in the Southern Hemisphere. The work takes up the entire city-facing wall […]

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Urban Artist Ador Protests Every Day of the week! Réunion Island 2018

October 22, 2018

Urban artist Ador has spent a year on the small French island Réunion, painting his characters in various shades of cavemen, however these prehistoric characters are set within a modern day twist. Ador has impressively painted over fifty characters on Reunion island, and they can be seen in his Family Reunion and Family Reunion part 2! Ador […]

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Okuda’s vibrant kaleidoscope sculptures transforms Boston Seaport, 2018

October 22, 2018

Global creative house and curator Justkids partnered with property developer WS Development to launch Air, Sea and Land, the largest public art undertaking of world-renowned Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel, in Boston Seaport. Okuda is a world-renowned street artist from Santander, Spain, best known for his unique iconographic language of multicoloured geometric structures and patterns […]

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Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans Street Art Festival, Bali 2018

October 19, 2018

PangeaSeed Foundation, the international marine conservation organisation, in collaboration with TROPICA Bali Street Art Festival, hosted the street art festival Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans in Bali, Southeast Asia. The festival ran from 10th -17th September 2018, to create a series of public artworks addressing marine environmental topics relevant to the local community and environment. […]

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Saddo, Life is Beautiful 2018. Downtown Las Vegas. Photo Credit Justkids

Life is Beautiful Urban Art Festival, Downtown Las Vegas 2018

October 18, 2018

Creative house Justkids continues to transform Downtown Las Vegas into an open air art gallery for its sixth edition of the Life Is Beautiful Festival, curated by Charlotte Dutoit. Artists invited for this edition included Marquis Lewis aka Retna, André Saraiva aka Mr. A, Lakwena, Bordalo II, Egle Zvirblyte, Sebastián Velasco, Saddo, Luke Pelletier and Aware. Adding to the already extensive […]

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London! Are you Ready? Festival Iminente Returns This Weekend, 2018

October 18, 2018

This weekend, 19th to 21st October, Festival Iminente returns to London, once again invading The Old Truman Brewery at Brick Lane. A three-day festival of explosive and experimental Portuguese and international art and music, Festival Iminente brings the soul of Lisbon to the heart of London. The festival, curated by Portuguese street artist Vhils combines urban art […]

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Shred the Love, Banksy’s Sotheby’s Stunt Didn’t go According to Plan, 2018

October 16, 2018

Banksy posted a video “Shredding the Girl and Balloon – The Director’s Cut” to the Banksy website today suggesting the partial shredding of “Girl with Balloon” at a London auction house Sotheby‘s wasn’t exactly to plan … The video, titled “Shred The Love,” shows the famously anonymous artist testing the shredding mechanism inside an ornate […]

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Stik Sculpture Fetches a Staggering £150,000 at Christies Auction for Theatre Charity, 2018

October 15, 2018

An artwork by STIK has been sold for £150,000 ($197,000) at Christies Auction after nearly a decade nailed to a brick wall in London’s East-End. The 236cm (8ft) wooden sculpture titled ‘Up On The Roof’ was originally put up by the artist in 2010 whilst working with theatre group ‘Cardboard Citizens‘ who work exclusively with […]

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Nina Ghafari, Beasts of No Nation, Nuart Festival, Stavanger 2018.

Nina Ghafari’s “Beasts of No Nation” aka “Another Place/Figure for Landscape” re-booted for 2018, Nuart Festival

October 12, 2018

Stavanger based Iranian artist, Nina Ghafari, works across many mediums including painting and street poetry. Her work aims to reinvigorate the conversation about autonomous art practice through electrically charged words, paintings, objects and performances. Her installation for this years Nuart Festival “Beasts of No Nation” aka “Another Place/Figure for Landscape”rebooted for 2018, is inspired by “Another […]

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BLOOP Closes for 2018 with a Final Mural by Spaik, Ibiza

October 9, 2018

BLOOP International Proactive Art festival Ibiza, has wrapped up this years festival with an impressive mural from Spaik. This years theme was dedicated to HOPE and Spaik, who has painted previously for BLOOP, took on the theme with his ability to dream! Spaik signature style is based on colourful Mexican folklore, and he played with […]

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Banksy Shreds Painting in Sotheby’s Auction Stunt, London 2018

October 6, 2018

Banksy has played one of the most audacious stunts in art history, by arranging for one of his best-known works, Girl with balloon, to shred itself after the sold hammer goes down at Sotheby’s auction for just over £1million. Banksy’s canvas was the final item on Fridays auction at Sotheby’s in London. As soon as […]

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