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The Hoy Villa Francisca Urban Art Project, Dominican Republic 2018

July 20, 2018

Hoy Villa Francisca Urban Art Festival, curated by Modafoca, just wrapped up its second successful year transforming the Villa Francisca into an open air art gallery. The festival ran from the 25th June – 1 July 2018. The community lead festival transformed the city space with colourful art, highlighting cultural and social values within this area of the […]

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MAISMENOS, Trashplant Festival, Tenerife, Canary Islands 2018. Photo Credit @Luzsosafoto

Trashplant Festival Creates Environmental Awareness Through Artivism, Tenerife 2018

July 19, 2018

The Trashplant Festival is an innovative international project aimed to revolutionise our environmental awareness. Under the curatorship of Trash artist Bordalo II, famous all over the world for his #TrashAnimals, Trashplant took place in the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, from 25-30th June 2018. Trash is a huge inspiration for curator artist Bordalo […]

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Banksy Receives a Letter from Zehra Doğan in Diyarbakır Prison, Turkey 2018

July 19, 2018

Banksy just shared a letter written to him by imprisoned Turkish-Kurdish artist and journalist, Zehra Doğan, thanking him for his mural in New York that drew international attention to her imprisonment. . I got a letter from Zehra Doğan in Diyarbakır Prison, Turkey A post shared by Banksy (@banksy) on Jul 17, 2018 at 9:45am […]

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Faith XLVII’s Manifesto Mural “Unbound” in Downtown San Francisco, 2018

July 15, 2018

Acclaimed International Artist Faith XLVII completes Unbound Mural Project for UC Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, CA. The mural covers two sides of a building at the corner of Golden Gate Ave and Hyde Street in downtown San Francisco. “The Unbound thematic is born from my personal feelings of frustration of the social- […]

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Lousy Auber, Bratislava Street Art Festival Hotel 2018. Photo Credit Jakub Caprnka

Lousy Auber takes his Photography to New Heights, Bratislava Street Art Festival, 2018

July 12, 2018

Bratislava Street art Festival celebrates its third year adding to their outdoor urban gallery in kamene nameste, an 80m2 area in a central place in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Past editions saw Fat Heat (HU) in 2016, FinDac (UK), Cart1(FR) and Daor (SK) in 2017. Whilst this year three new murals were painted by Millo […]

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Juane, Street Art Bus, Stavanger 2018. Photo Credit Brian Tallman

Stencil artist Jaune’s Hi-Vis Workers Have Fun on Stavanger’s Buses, 2018

July 10, 2018

Nuart Festival produced the first ever series of curated Street Art buses as part of their on-going project to establish Stavanger as the world’s first ‘Art City’. The three-year collaboration between Nuart Festival and regional bus company Kolumbus began in September 2016 and saw four artists, Add Fuel (PT), Ernest Zacharevic (LT), Martin Whatson (NO) and […]

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Astro, Street Art Mural in Épinal, France 2018. Photo credit galerie Mathgoth

Street Artist Astro Stops Traffic with his Latest Mural in Épinal, France 2018

July 3, 2018

In the French town of Épinal, a commune in northeastern France, Street Artist Astro has just finished a monumental outdoor mural, for a public art project, curated by Mathilde & Gautier Jourdain of Le Mur and galerie Mathgoth. On the wall of a car park and in the heart of the city, Astro spent just […]

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Grenoble Street Art Festival, France 2018

July 1, 2018

The Grenoble Street Art Movie Fest, curated by Spacejunk Art Centre, just wrapped up its fourth public art festival. The event showed every aspect of public art such as, live painting,­ book signing events, workshops, conferences, guided visits (in French, English, Spanish and French sign language), exhibitions and ran from 1st June to 1st July […]

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Against the Grain: Skate Culture and the Camera Touring Exhibition, London 2018

June 30, 2018

Against the Grain: Skate Culture and the Camera is an exhibition that celebrates the phenomena of skateboarding, with the photographers and filmmakers who documented the movement. Despite the subculture’s influence and resonance in almost every aspect of popular culture, this emblem of freedom and rebellion has been largely ignored as an artistic form. Brought together […]

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NEW Banksy Stencil Art is causing a Riot in Paris, 2018

June 28, 2018

The elusive British graffiti artist Banksy, known for his political and social commentary, has been active on the streets of Paris this week with new stencil art popping up all over the capital city. Banksy’s new stencilled graffiti happens to be fifty years since the uprising in Paris 1968, which began with students objecting to reform […]

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Mural International Public Street Art Festival, Montreal, Canada 2018

June 23, 2018

The MURAL International Public Art Festival just wrapped its 6th edition from 7th June to 17th June 2018, now a key cultural event that kicks off summertime in Montreal. The ten-day MURAL Festival activities and events took place in a free-access pedestrian zone located in Saint-Laurent Boulevard between Sherbrooke Street and Mont-Royal Avenue. Some twenty new murals created this year […]

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