Art Magazine: Urban & Street Art Features

London’s finest Very Nearly Almost (VNA) magazine faces its second big birthday, but before the 20th issue will be published in the next weeks, I just received VNA Magazine #19 or what I am calling it, the Anthony Lister edition… For me, VNA #19 is definitely one of their best issues. Not just because that they got (Mr. Crazy) Anthony Lister in a royally pose on their cover, but also interviewed several of my favorite urban artist: Low Bros, How&Nosm and Best Ever! ...

In addition to the fantastic Klebstoff #4 Sticker Magazine, I also just received the third issue of Sebastian Linck’s urban exploration magazine Uebergrund! Like the previous two issues (#1 and #2), this latest photo mag presents urbanex impressions from different cities in Germany and Europe. This time, Uebergrund mainly focuses on the beauty of almost demolished and decaying houses and factory buildings in East-Germany, Darmstadt and Lisbon! More Urban Exploration Photography: Sebastian Linck’s Uebergrund magazine is one of the few German contributions for the international urban exploration scene. If you like to see some more urbex impressions, check out some other photo-taking urban explorers from around the globe! ...

It’s been a long time, since the last issue of the iconic sticker magazine Klebstoff (German for glue) was published, but recently I received the new fourth issue! First published in 2009 by German Wildsmile Studios, the Klebstoff mag soon became popular in the German sticker and urban art scene. The clue: Each page of the mag consists of real stickers by real artists, what allows you to have a lot of fun with it - I for one decided to entirely cover one of my bookshelf in stickers… ...

VNA 18 - Conor Harrington After I recently got the latest Amateur Magazine from Switzerland, I finally received the 18th issue of London’s finest Very Nearly Almost (VNA) Magazine! And again they put together some of the major players in the urban art scene… Featuring not just bloody awesome painter Conor Harrington, whose East-London studio decorates the cover of VNA 18, but also graffiti legend Mode2, Shawn Barber, mister Calligraffiti Shoe, Ronzo, the largest mural painter Remi Rough and more! In addition to the interesting interviews with those great artists, the mag also includes several nice street shots again, this time focusing on London, Sydney and Rio… ...

Amateur Magazine - Smash137 After number 6 and 7 as well as 8 and 9, recently the 10th issue of Switzerland-born Amateur Magazine was published and surprised me again… To publish the first double-digit issue is a good reason to party for every mag, especially when it’s released just twice a year. Nevertheless, it seems that in the case of Amateur, the team didn’t party before the release but tried to produce the best issue ever - and in my eyes, this totally worked out! ...

The third issue of Sebastian Linck’s self-made urbex photography magazine Uebergrund is coming soon! After issue one (published in 2009) and issue two (published in 2011) I’m really curious to see what impressing locations Sebastian explored this time…I’ll keep you posted. Furthermore, the Uebergrund photography mag finally got an own website, presenting not just insights from the different issues, but also selected shots from the photographers portfolio, what makes it worth to check out now! Those of you, who didn’t ordered their magazine copies yet, should do so in near future for two reasons: ...

Already some days old, but still fresh is the dope, quality interview the VNA team did with The London Police boys in Amsterdam for the 17th issue of London’s finest Very Nearly Almost magazine! At first it was a very simple doodle. And I mean simple, it was essentially a stick man with a round head that I’d draw…(Chaz about the Lad) Chaz and Bob are present in Europe’s street art scene for over a decade. Together this duo traveled the globe, decorating streets not just in Europe, but also in Brooklyn, Hong Kong and other places, for what reason their iconic, fat outlined character (simply called the Lad) became popular around the world! And now, enjoy this The London Police interview! ...

Paris-based, popular Graffiti Art Magazine just started their annual graffiti art awards survey. Until tomorrow you are able to vote for your favorite artists in 14 different categories with five nominees for each award! The public voting is straight forward: All you have to do is to go to Facebook and answer the polls! To make it even easier for you to participate, I collected links to some of the in my eyes major graffiti art award categories… ...

After Sickboy, Shepard Fairey and Invader it’s now The London Police decorating the cover of the latest issue (number 17!) of London’s finest VNA Magazine! Again, the mag includes great interviews with some of the top urban artists from around the world, like Goldie, El Mac, Toasters just to name a few, and features with London, Milan and Toronto some nice metropolises and especially its street art scenes! Again, VNA 17 is a nice reading for urban art enthusiasts from all over the globe and worth to check out. ...

When I first wrote some lines about the Swiss artist driven Amateur Magazine a year ago I was keen about the high content and print quality of the around 100 pages magazine. Since then I’m well supplied with their issues and became a fan of their nice stories, great interviews and topical diversity. And that’s the reason for me to introduce the latest issue of this print publication to you as the first part of the announced Urban Art Books & Mags Special. ...