Tag: graffiti
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Banksy is Back and Taking on Paris With Sharp Political Criticism
Banksy is back and in France, taking aim at the French government’s crackdown on migrants in a series of new murals in Paris. The world’s best known street artist has “blitzed” the French capital over the last few days, leaving as many as six works on walls across the city. The first work takes issue…
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Banksy’s Ex Dealer Creates ‘Fake’ Theft of Banksy Painting At Show, And Media Are Dumb Enough to Believe It’s Real
It’s nearly the kind of fake stunt that Banksy himself would be proud of. Need free publicity and exposure for a show with slow ticket sales? Why not stage a fake theft of a Banksy painting, produce the staged robbery on video, and trust the media to run the story despite the dodgy cover-up? This…
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Street Artist Turns Regular Objects On The Streets Into Things To Make Us Smile
Street artist TomBob likes to use his artistic talents to re-shape our world. He creates clever street art on common objects in the urban landscape, and he’s bringing a smile to the faces of everyone who sees his handywork. Whether it’s turning a pipe into an anteater or transforming a fire hydrant into Princess Leia,…
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Amazingly Artful Staircases From Around the World
Although we’re used to seeing street art appear on the walls and buildings of our cities, more recently artists have started colouring the stairs that we walk on every day. When painted, public stair art is a stunning and unexpected canvas for portraits, geometric patterns, and intricate mosaics. Each rise of a step is one fraction…
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Banksy Makes His Own Version of The Simpsons Opening Credits
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be well aware that Banksy is arguably the most controversial street artist in the world who has developed an entire art subculture devoted to his works. So how did “The Simpsons” manage to track down and get him to create the powerful opening-credit sequence for an episode, which seems to reveal the torturous…
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Artist Covers Melbourne’s Famous Street Art Precinct in Blue Paint in the Name of Art?
As we’ve previously written HERE, street art in Melbourne, Australia, has come a long way since the days of “zero tolerance” where street artists were considered vandals and fines and arrests for perpetrators were commonplace. As Melbourne’s street art culture has evolved and street art has become a major tourist attraction for the city, however,…
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Multi-Layered, Mind Bending Graffiti Lettering by Pref
If you’re anything like us, you wrote your name in big, stylized letters all over everything you could… whether you were allowed to or not. Street artist Pref must have been really good at it, as he is amazing now. Pref explores words and common phrases through unique multi-layered murals. His 3D text is used…
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H&M Files Lawsuit Against Graffiti Artist, Claims All Unsanctioned Artwork Can Be Used By Corporations Without Payment
H&M has entered a legal dispute with artist Jason “REVOK” Williams over the copyright usage of his work in a recent advertising campaign. The campaign features imagery as well as videos of a male model clad in the retailer’s “New Routine” sportswear line while in front of a wall with Williams’s graffiti painted on it.…
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Amazing Street Art That Cleverly Interact With Nature
Urbanism and nature do not always get along well, but when they do, the collaboration may create something really special and unique. We’re talking about street artists who incorporate elements of nature into their graffiti, turning 2D paintings into amazing 3D installations. In these cases not every wall or pavement could be turned into street…
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Who is Banksy? The Most Comprehensive Study of His Life and Street Art
Given the interwebs always seems to be aflutter with news about Banksy given his recent stunt where he shredded his own work at Sotheby’s after it sold for $1.25 million USD (see that HERE), we thought we’d show you the most comprehensive collection of his street art in one spot. Banksy developed an entire art subculture…