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Henrik Uldalen, The Crystal Ship Street Art Festival 2017, Photo Credit Ian Cox

The Crystal Ship Street Art Festival, Ostend, Belgium 2017

April 9, 2017

After the success of the first The Crystal Ship 2016, curated by Bjørn Van Poucke, the team have just wrapped up another edition. During the first week of the Belgian Easter Holidays (3-8th April) the streets of Ostend were graced with twenty international street artists such as Axel Void, Phlegm, Alexis Diaz, Henrik Uldalen and C215, […]

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Bosoletti, The Crystal Ship Street Art Festival 2017, Photo Credit Ian Cox

Bosoletti at The Crystal Ship Street Art Festival, Ostend, Belgium 2017

April 8, 2017

The preparations for The Crystal Ship, 2017 edition, curated by Bjørn Van Poucke, are in full swing. During the first week of the Belgian Easter Holidays (3-8th April) the streets of Ostend are graced with twenty international street artists such as Axel Void, Phlegm, Alexis Diaz, Henrik Uldalen and Bosoletti. Argentinian street artist, Francisco Bosoletti visited Ostend to leave his unique art on […]

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C215, The Crystal Ship Street art Festival, Ostend Belgium 2017 Photo Credit Ian Cox

C215 at The Crystal Ship Street Art Festival, Ostend, Belgium 2017

April 7, 2017

The preparations for The Crystal Ship, 2017 edition, curated by Bjørn Van Poucke, are in full swing. During the first week of the Belgian Easter Holidays (3-8th April) the streets of Ostend are graced with twenty international street artists such as Axel Void, Phlegm, Alexis Diaz, Henrik Uldalen and C215. French stencil artist C215 visited Ostend to leave this romantic stencil on […]

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Seth Globepainter, Seawalls: Artists for Oceans, Napier, NZ. Photo Credit Tré Packard

Sea Walls: Artist for Oceans, Napier, New Zealand 2017

April 7, 2017

PangeaSeed Foundation, in partnership with the Napier City Council and Alternative Arts Initiative, presented Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans in Napier, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. This event, in its second year, ran from 19th to 26th March with the creative participation of twenty six internationally renowned muralists, who came to paint large-scale murals addressing pressing ocean […]

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Phlegm, The Crystal Ship Street art Festival, Ostend Belgium 2017 Photo Credit Ian Cox

Phlegm at The Crystal Ship Street Art Festival, Ostend, Belgium 2017

April 7, 2017

After the overwhelming success of the first The Crystal Ship, curated by Bjørn Van Poucke, the preparations for this year’s 2017 edition are in full swing. During the first week of the Belgian Easter Holidays (3-8th April) the streets of Ostend are graced with twenty international street artists such as Axel Void, Phlegm, Alexis Diaz, Henrik Uldalen and […]

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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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