BOMB: A manifesto of art terrorism // #streetart

Artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon has put together BOMB, a manifesto of art terrorism, as he bluntly puts it: “BOMB is part personal reflection, part social critique. A pointed and opinionated observation about graffiti culture, media terrorism, art “education”, corporate control, and the ills of the current art world.” Watch the trailer: BOMB: A manifesto of […]

Street art interventions

Intervention art using posters and spray painting (from Manchester in the United Kingdom). Narcélio Grud is a Brazilian artist and the video is part of a series of intervations that the artist has made through many countries around Europe.

Big Bang, Big Boom: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti // #blu #streetart

The Amazing Brain Pickings blog recently made me aware of the latest creation by Italian street artist BLU; a stop-motion movie illustrating the story of evolution in the most brilliant way – and it becomes even more impressive when knowing that it was appearantly made with no post-production. Read the original post at Brain Pickings […]

Street art censorship in Vancouver, Canada

This is something I have never heard of before: Authorities taking action to remove politically offensive street art. Nevertheless, this is what has happened in Vancouver, Canada, where an art gallery owner has received an order to remove a controversial mural on the outside walls of the gallery. Local newspaper The Globe & Mail writes: […]

Google Maps as street art channel

I just love things like that: A group of grass-root art organizers in Pittsburgh staged a street spectacle on the day the Google Maps Street View camera car came by to map their neighborhood. Read this Washington Post article, and read about the event on the groups, Street With A View, own website.