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Artist Highlight: Soten

The world of graffiti has often focused on pictures over words, and that has caused an important part of the industry to die away. The art of graffiti writing is rarely seen beyond tags these days, or...

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First Coat Mural Festival in Australia

The City of Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia is famous for a few things. Located in the Northeast of Australia, it’s only a short drive to the ocean, and sits close to the Great Barrier Reef. But...

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Nunavut and Toronto Teens Come Together for an Amazing Mural Project

A group of Nunavut and Toronto teens have overcome a myriad of challenges to paint a beautiful mural in Toronto. The teens, part of the collective known as Cape Dorset, have put together...

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Artist Bio: Herb Williams

One of the most exciting things that’s happening in contemporary street art is not the murals themselves, but the materials artists are using to make their beautiful pieces. Gone are the days when we...

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MuralArts Summer Kaleidoscope Mural

Philadelphia’s blossoming and world-renowned MuralArts program has just completed its latest project. Fondly referred to as the “Summer Kaleidoscope,” the project is an extremely large mural that’s...

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Web Spotlight: Animal New York

Like many other things in this world, the internet has been great to street art. Between Google’s street art maps to sites dedicated to artists working around the globe, the internet has allowed...

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The Biggest Mural in Pachuca, Mexico

If there’s one thing that’s true about street art, it’s that it’s getting bigger. Sometimes that means it’s getting more recognition, being displayed in more and more places, or the artists themselves...

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Artist Bio: Herakut

We often think of street art as an individual event, one where a person comes up with an idea and paints it onto the surface on their own. Artists, after all, generally want to be known for their work...

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Artist Bio: Ghidaq al-Nazir

The coffee industry has exploded and completely changed in the past fifteen to twenty years. Some blame Starbucks for the increased interest in coffee as a certain type of fancy treat, moving it away...

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Ghost Signs

Many people like to look at the history of street art exclusively through graffiti. It gives the whole art style a certain edge that, while not unwarranted, ignores a large portion of its origins and...

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Wall/Therapy

Art can serve multiple functions, ones that we can often take for granted. When it comes to street art, we mostly think of it in two ways: as community projects and as beautification Measure. For the...

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Brooklyn Street Art

One of the best things about street art in the digital age is its ability to disseminate throughout the world. Pieces are no longer confined to simply the city, or even the single canvas, on which they...

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Global Street Art: The International View on the World of Street Art

Graffiti and street art has often been viewed as an American tradition, something that came about with the rise of hip-hop culture in the late seventies. And, in some respects, this assessment isn’t...

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Artist Bio: J3

When it comes to the world of street art, some artists enjoy the mantra of “Go big or go home.” There are very few artists, however, that take this to heart as much as J3, the American graffiti artist...

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Artist Spotlight: Rime

New York has always been seen as one of the starting points for graffiti. Indeed, it’s embedded into the everyday experience in that city, seen on the rooftops as you take the train from into...

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Banksy’s Dismaland

Appearing suddenly in the cold, blank canvas of an English seaside resort town, Dismaland Bemusement Park caught international headlines when it opened its doors. A pop-up art exhibition by...

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Meltings: The Environmentally-Friendly New Way to Paint

If you’ve followed this blog, you’ve probably noticed that street art is not limited to a single idea, medium, or material. It can take many different forms, from Banksy’s painted stencilling to other...

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GESER / MOLOTOW

A recent piece by near-legendary graffiti writer GESER (GES for short) has some people questioning the idea of corporate support and artistic integrity. The piece, a train-wide signature by an artist...

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Artist Spotlight: Hopare

One of the benefits of street art now entering multiple decades of public approval and recognition is that we are seeing artists be influenced directly by the generations previous. Years ago, street...

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Antonio Ramos, Death by Mural

Last October young volunteer, muralist, and street artist Antonio Ramos was gunned down in West Oakland. He and his fellow artists were in the midst of painting an anti-violence mural that was meant to...

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