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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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Bordalo II, Wild Wild Waste, Big Trash Animal Zoo, Life is Beautiful Festival, downtown Las Vegas 2018. Photo Credit JustKids

Bordalo II brings the Wild Wild Waste Zoo Parody to Downtown Las Vegas, 2018

October 5, 2018

Portuguese activist and ecologic artist Bordalo II, has delivered his most ambitious trash animal installation to date, a 10,000 square feet world of trash animals entitled Wild Wild Waste, in Downtown Las Vegas, powered by Zappos.com. The project has been prepared in secrecy during five weeks in an abandoned Motel of the original Downtown Las Vegas, […]

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Andrew Hem, UPEA Street Art Festival, Finland 2018. Photo Credit Hannu Uusitalo

UPEA Street Art Festival, Finland 2018

September 30, 2018

The third annual, Street Art Festival UPEA took over 12 different Finnish cities during the month of September 2018. UPEA18 invited local and international artists, such as Andrew Hem, Case Maclaim, David de la Mano, Sainer, Fabio Petani, Leon Keer, Gummy Gue, Helen Bur, Sepe, How & Nosm, Isaac Cordal, Jussi TwoSeven, Kenor, Mantra, Natalia […]

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Interview with Kobra about his Peace Project “Colors of Liberty”, New York 2018

September 21, 2018

Kobra is currently in New York City with his latest project “Colors of Liberty“. The Brazillian street artist is busy creating a series of murals promoting peace to the masses, through the power of street art. With his celebrated style and his unique colours, all of them will have a common message: a cry for […]

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Entrevista com KOBRA sobre o seu último projeto “Cores pela Liberdade”- Nova Iorque 2018

September 21, 2018

Kobra está atualmente em Nova Iorque com o seu mais recente projeto “Cores Pela Liberdade”. O artista de rua Brasileiro está a criar uma série de murais promovendo a paz, através do poder da street art. Com o seu estilo célebre e cores únicas, todos eles vão ter uma mensagem comum: gritar pela paz mundial […]

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Jazoo Yang, Dot series, Nuart Festival 2018. Photo Credit Kristina Borhes

Korean Artist Jazoo Yang Protests Against Gentrification with Two New Works in Stavanger, Nuart Festival 2018

September 19, 2018

Jazoo Yang is interested in the evolution of cities and the nostalgic poetry that emerges from popular neighbourhoods demolished at high speed in areas of urban redevelopment. Her newest mural project for this years Nuart Festival uses Korean symbols of forced evictions and demolition to raise awareness about all those globally who are exposed to […]

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Activist Xiuhtezcatl-Martinez, We The Future.

We The Future to use Art in Schools to Inspire the Next Generation of Youth Activists, Amplifier 2018

September 18, 2018

Last year, Amplifier launched one of the most viral political art projects in history with We The People, a nonpartisan public art campaign dedicated to igniting a national dialogue about American identity and values after the divisive Presidential campaign of 2016. Now they want to reach a new audience, the next chapter of this project, […]

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Stik, Wooden Stik Sculpture "Up on the Roof" to be auctioned off at Christies Auction House for Cardboard Citizens Charity 2018. Photo Credit Stik

Street Artist Stik Auctions Rare Sculpture in aid of Cardboard Citizens Charity, Christies 2018

September 18, 2018

A rare sculpture made in 2009 for Stik’s “Diva” exhibition is on sale at Christies Auction in aid of homeless theatre company Cardboard Citizens. The sculpture was from a series of sixteen unique sculptures, where only three are known to have survived. The life size artwork was titled “Up on the Roof”, named after the Cardboard Citizens theatre […]

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