Tag: street art
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I Created “Christmas” Billboards To Show Reality Of Children In Yemen (video)
“One child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen” -UNICEF More than 50,000 children expected to die of starvation and disease by end of 2017. -independent.co.uk
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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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Controversial Illustrations By The Illusive French Artist Known as Dran
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The street artist Dran, born in Toulouse in 1979, is frequently referred to as The French Banksy. These two artists share a critical view of society, power figures and are not afraid to expose their beliefs publicly. “My father wanted me to work with him in construction, but since my arms are too thin to…
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Woman Outs Street Harrassment and Catcallers by Taking Selfies With Them
Catcalling and street harassment – it’s likely only something women experience – but it’s a real and often terrifying problem and it happens all over the world. When Noa Jansma had enough of being catcalled as she walked to her university in Amsterdam each day, she decided to highlight and denounce the problem by taking…
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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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Amazing Staircases Beautified by Artists 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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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…