Tag: graffiti
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Banksy Unmasked? Tourist Claims Photo Shows Secretive Artist at Work in Bethlehem
A picture has emerged claiming to show elusive street artist Banksy finishing off his most recent artwork in Bethlehem. Dressed in a distinctive fedora hat, the middle-aged man in the photo was wearing grey cargo shorts and a grey fleece and was clutching a stencil and an aerosol can. The image shows him glancing over his shoulder in…
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90 Year Old Grandma Turns Small Village Into Art Gallery With Hand Painted Flowers
Anežka (Agnes) Kašpárková, a 90-year-old resident of Louka, Czech Republic, spends every spring and summer adorning window and door frames with majestic designs. A former agricultural worker, Agnes picked up the hobby from other local woman who had been doing the same for years. Using vibrant blue paint and a small brush, she creates intricate floral…
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Street Artist Paints Fake Shadows Around The City
Some strange shadows have popped up of late in Redwood City, California. Flowers sprout from the shadows of bike racks, mailboxes turn into shadow monsters, and shady monkeys hang around atop parking meters. What’s going on? They’re the work of Damon Belanger, a graphic artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was…
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Street Artists Paint an Entire School Building Before it is Demolished
As part of the Rehab 2 festival, 100 artists were recently given the opportunity to paint the interior of a soon to be demolished student residence at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris, making it their canvas. Although the dormitory and all the works will be destroyed when the dormitory is renovated, several photographers have extensively documented…
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Street Artist Rone Creates TOP SECRET Exhibition
Last week in an unidentified and soon-to-be-demolished building in Melbourne, Australia, a secret street art exhibition titled “The Alpha Project” was held by renowned street artist RONE to a lucky few. As the invitation read: “I have been working on a huge top secret project over the last few months. In fact it is still a secret…
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Banksy is Back With “The Walled Off Hotel” in Bethlehem
Banksy is back with a brand new project on the streets of Bethlehem in Palestine. The mysterious artist has just opened a nine room hotel called “The Walled Off Hotel” located in an area very close to the controversial West Bank barrier which has been heavily decorated by artists. “The Walled Off Hotel” exhibits Banksy’s typically politically charged…
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Man Tags Over Tags in a Hilarious Attempt to Make Them Legible
Tagging is one form of art that splits most art aficionados – is it art or just someone’s poor attempt at making a visual statement. Whatever your view, it is generally always the case that tagging is illegible. In an attempt to clear up this problem, French artist Mathieu Tremblin paints over tags to make…
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A Very Special Christmas STREET ART Collection
Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy Festivus For the Rest of Us! Whatever you celebrate at this time of the year, we hope you’re able to find some time to relax with your friends and family. To celebrate, we’ve picked some of the coolest seasonal walls and came up with a collection of street…
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Who is BANKSY? We Try to Answer the Art World’s Biggest Mystery
It’s been the art world’s biggest mystery for some time… who is Banksy? The identity of the mysterious British street artist has been a closely guarded secret ever since he popped up in Bristol and took over as the most recognizable political and satirical street artist around the world. Over the years several different people have attempted to “unmask” Banksy,…
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Martin Whatson Masterfully Blends Street Art and Graffiti
We’ve followed Norwegian artist Martin Whatson‘s for some time and it’s not hard to see why. His works stand out from the increasingly hectic street art scene as a result of their brilliant blend of grayscale scenes with explosions of vibrantly painted graffiti. The works often focus on a singular matte subject, one that is seemingly…