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TOP 10 Highest Auction Results for Invader Artworks

August 17, 2022

Invader, the French street artist, gained notoriety for his mosaic tile installations of pixelated video game characters. It’s fascinating to consider how he started placing these invaders in Paris in 2008 and how he has since become a global phenomenon. With some of his pieces now fetching top auction results, it’s clear that Invader’s unconventional […]

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CAN ART HELP FIGHT A WAR?

August 10, 2022

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead Gainesville, Florida-based public art curator and producer Iryna Kanishcheva (native of Lviv, Ukraine), along with The Florida-based public art platform, Monochronicle, with the support of Shepard Fairey, organised a mural […]

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NeSpoon brings her Delicate Lace Patterns to Yffiniac, France 2022

August 7, 2022

Polish street artist NeSpoon has just finished painting a mural in Brittany in the small city of Yffiniac, in the north of France. As always, careful research went into the intricate pattern of the mural and was inspired by the beautiful delicate 19th-century ceremonial shawl. … The inspiration was a Breton ceremonial shawl from the […]

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The Ochre Man by STIK, Clearwell Caves 2022

July 30, 2022

STIK has just painted a huge eight-metre (12ft) tall ‘Ochre Man’ at Clearwell caves deep beneath the Forest of Dean. The STIK Ochre Man is painted in ochre, a reddish earth pigment which has been mined there since the Middle stone age.  Clearwell Caves are amongst the earliest and last ochre mines in the British […]

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Artist Saype Extends the World’s Largest Human Chain to Rio de Janeiro, 2022

July 28, 2022

For the fifteenth stage of the global artwork “Beyond Walls” in Rio de Janeiro, Saype strives to bridge the impassable distance between Benin (the tenth stage of the project) and Brazil. Thus allowing those who left across the ocean never to return, to feel again the desperate embrace of those who saw them drift away […]

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Street Artist Said Dokins Light Installation Dazzles for Querétaro Experimental international public art festival, 2022

July 28, 2022

Throughout the summer months of June until September, Mexican contemporary artist Said Dokins presents Refraktur as part of the Querétaro Experimental international public art festival. The festival will show the work of over 200 artists across a wide range of disciplines, including music, theatre, dance, performance and sculpture.  Refraktur is a site-specific installation built out of glass, metal, reflexive materials […]

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Street Artist Spaik reveals his 10-piece preview mural for BLOOP 2022

July 27, 2022

BLOOP International Proactive Art Festival IBIZA is back for its 12th consecutive edition! From the 4th – 24th of August 2022! Despite the pandemic and subsequent setbacks and difficulties, BLOOP has continued to open its doors over the last two years, insisting on holding this independent initiative that introduced art to a traditionally foreign context. […]

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Laon Street Art Festival, France 2022

July 8, 2022

The city of Loan in Northern France has just wrapped up its first street art festival, Festival d’art Urbain de Laon. Organised by Ville de Laon and curated by Christian Guemy (aka artist C215), the city invited sixteen international street artists to paint fourteen monumental murals in the Champagne and Montreuil districts of the medieval town. Artists invited included […]

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NEVERCREW’s Mural is a Warning SIGN to our Disappearing Animals, Switzerland 2022

June 28, 2022

NEVERCREW is a swiss based artists duo composed of Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni since 1996. Their work focuses on the relationship between mankind and nature and the relationship between mankind and the system, in particular on the effects of human attitudes on the environment, on social injustices and the relationship between the concept and the […]

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Invader Rubikcubist Exhibition, MIMA Museum Brussels 2022

June 24, 2022

MIMA, the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels, hosts Invader Rubikcubist, a solo exhibition by Invader.  Invader is the pseudonym of the anonymous, world-famous French urban artist whose majority of his work is modelled on the crude pixellation of the 1970s-1980s 8-bit video games. He took his name from the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders, and much of […]

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‘WELCOME’ The latest mural by Spanish Artist PEJAC for NUART Aberdeen, Scotland 2022

June 23, 2022

Spanish artist PEJAC has just completed his latest intervention for this year’s Nuart Aberdeen Festival, which took place between the 9th and the 12th of June. This is the artist’s second invitation by Nuart, and this year PEJAC played with the festival’s theme of reconnecting the city and its people. PEJAC chose the entrance of a building […]

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