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Street Art in the Digital Age: Photos, Documents, Urban Agency

Andrea Baldini — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

How do street art practices resonate through the digital world, and how do we trace such resonance back to the street? More generally, what happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see – almost as if it had eyes? Andrea Baldini (Nanjing University) reflects on the role that the Internet, and social networks, in particular, have had in boosting the circulation of graffiti and street art and, in turn, their communicative and denouncing power.

The Belgian City Doel is a Canvas for Street Artists - But is Art Enough to Save it?

Lindsey Leardi — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Street art has long surpassed mere trend to become an integral part of cities' cultural identities. What was once considered vandalism is now not only accepted but encouraged. The works of once-prosecuted artists such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey are now collector's items; murals can cost anywhere from $1,000 to $20,000 or more. Through their works, artists may even have the power to save cities.

Call for Urban Artists and Land Artists: 12. Arte Laguna Prize

Rene Submissions — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:02:00 +0000

Among the contest categories, the Arte Laguna Prize includes Land Art and Urban Art.

Submission guidelines:

LAND ART:
(With the support of Arte Sella)
Works or projects of environmental and land art in which the artistic intervention interacts with the environment it has been created for. There are no restrictions in terms of the choice of the specific environment. The projects have to value nature and its features and more in general the environment or the landscape in which they are placed. The finalist works will be exhibited with explicative panels.

URBAN ART:
Works or projects of urban art, enhancement, street art and graffiti,

German Street Artist 1010 Creates Cave-Like Illusions in Unexpected Places

Patrick Lynch — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:05:00 +0000

Ready for a mind trip? Take a look at the work of German street artist 1010. For more than a decade, 1010 has been painting colorful cave-like illusions that make flat surfaces appear as if they have been breached by holes go on forever. To create his works, the artist first makes papercut models by layering stacks of paper in specific color palettes, then translates the depth into paint. He has used this technique in surprising places across the globe including both interior and exterior walls and even on an abandoned highway in Paris.

This Street Art Foundation Is Transforming India's Urban Landscape—With the Government's Support

Suneet Zishan Langar — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:30:00 +0000

Last month, ArchDaily had an opportunity to speak with Akshat Nauriyal, Content Director at Delhi-based non-profit St+Art India Foundation which aims to do exactly what its name suggests—to embed art in streets. The organization’s recent work in the Indian metropolises of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru, has resulted in a popular reclamation of the cities’ civic spaces and a simultaneous transformation of their urban fabric. Primarily working within residential neighborhoods—they are touted with the creation of the country’s first public art district in Lodhi Colony, Delhi—the foundation has also collaborated with metro-rail corporations to enliven transit-spaces. While St+Art India’s experiments are evidently rooted in social activism and urban design, they mark a significant moment in the historic timeline of the application of street art in cities: the initiative involves what it believes to be a first-of-its-kind engagement between street artists and the government.

Artist Brings Striking Pop Surrealism To An Abandoned French Castle

Nicolás Valencia — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 08:00:00 +0000

Okuda, the Spanish artist who has been converted into one of the biggest figures in pop surrealism, is continuing his artistic journey in France. After paying homage to the Mona Lisa in the façade of a 19 story building and designing a trampoline above the Seine River, the artist has now taken on the façade of the Valette Castle (1864) in Loiret, which has been abandoned since the 80’s.

Is This the World's Largest Mural?

Sabrina Syed — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:00:00 +0000

Street Artist Misha Most have finished a gargantuan project – a 10,800 square meter mural set to be the world's largest in Vyska, Russia. The giant mural, titled “Evolution-2” covers the facade of the "Stan-5000" industrial complex from the oldest Russian manufacturer, Vyksa Steel Works. The mural project was chosen in the course of the "Vyksa 10000" open competition and is part of the ArtOvrag urban art festival curated by Sabina Changina and Russian creative studio Artmossphere. Artmossphere is known for curating various art projects, exhibitions, and festivals connected with street art with both established and upcoming street artists.

How Developers Turned Graffiti Into a Trojan Horse For Gentrification

Thomas Musca — Fri, 19 May 2017 09:30:00 +0000

It happened in the middle of the night: the stealth whitewashing of 5Pointz, Long Island City's unofficial graffiti museum. In 2013 owner Jerry Wolkoff, of G&M Realty, wanted the building razed in order to erect new luxury condominiums, and the artists sued to preserve their work. A judge denied the artists' request and Wolkoff had the murals destroyed under cover of darkness, ostensibly to prevent them from attaining landmark status. Though graffiti was born as a subversive act, these artists had painted with Wolkoff's permission since 1993 and had turned the warehouse into “the world's premiere graffiti mecca” and the largest legal aerosol art space in the United States. This was a serious betrayal.

Call for Artists: The International Contest for the Largest Mural in the World.

Rene Submissions — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:31:00 +0000

Vyksa-10000 invites international artists to take a part in a contest for the largest mural in the world.

The Vyksa-10000 international contest is organized by the Art-Ovrag festival in Vyksa, Russia. The mural painting contest celebrates the 25th anniversary of the United Metallurgical Company (OMK) and the 260th anniversary of the metallurgical plant in Vyksa.

Storytelling Street Furniture Featured in URBE 2016

Alyssa Wu — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 16:00:00 +0000

From the 4-6 of November, the Mediterranean Real Estate Fair, URBE 2016, featured an installation by São Paulo architect and urban planner Guto Requena. The public artwork, entitled “Can you tell me a secret?” is a collection of temporary street furniture: a phone booth that records visitors’ stories and plays them back randomly into five wooden benches.

Street Artists and Local Government Team Up to Create Colorful Mexican Mural

Sabrina Santos — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:00:00 +0000

About an hour outside Mexico City lies the small town of Palmitas in the Pachuca district, an area that, a few months ago, began a massive street art project to unite the community. Beginning as an idea from local government leaders, the project was executed by self-taught street artists Germen Crew.

Strook Creates Colorful Street Murals with Recycled Wood

Katie Watkins — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 08:00:00 +0000

Discarded planks, doors, floorboards and furniture become colorful geometric faces in Stefaan De Croock’s street murals in Belgium. De Croock (also known as Strook), preserves the color and texture of the scavenged wooden pieces, cutting them into geometric shapes and piecing them together to form colossal faces.

French Artist Levalet Inks Imaginary Scenes onto Parisian Buildings

Katie Watkins — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:00:25 +0000

A curved street grate becomes an umbrella for a shepherd and his sheep, and a construction site is transformed into a fortress for mop-wielding guards in the interactive street art of French artist Charles Leval, better known as Levalet. Seeking inspiration from the Parisian streets, Levalet is known for his site-specific, India ink drawings that playfully interact with their surrounding architecture. “Topography is very important for me, this is why I always check a place out before I work on it,” Levalet said in an interview with Underground Paris. “I try to mix the world of representation with the real world by playing on the physical cohesion of the situations I put up. Architecture supports my work. Then I work on staging the artwork with photographs.”

Satellite Records World’s Largest Urban Art GIF in Rio de Janeiro

Romullo Baratto — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:00:28 +0000

The Flamengo landfill in Rio de Janeiro was recently host the world's largest urban art GIF. Created by anonymous artist INSA, the work consisted of a huge floor painting that underwent minor changes recorded by the satellite 430 miles above the earth.