Art World: Graffiti, Street Art & Urban Art

Welcome to our Art World tag archive, a vibrant collection dedicated to the diverse and ever-evolving world of urban art. Here, you’ll find insightful articles exploring graffiti, street art, and muralism—from the rebellious beginnings of tagging to the sophisticated contemporary works gracing city walls worldwide. Discover the stories behind iconic pieces, learn about influential artists, and delve into the complex relationship between art, urban spaces, and society. Whether you’re a seasoned aficionado or a curious newcomer, this archive offers a rich and engaging exploration of a truly global phenomenon. Prepare to be inspired by the creativity and social commentary found within the urban canvas.

Update: Top 20 Urban Art Photographers

One of the first posts here was the Top Urban Art Photographers top-list, giving brief introductions about a few of my most favorite graffiti and street art photographers like Keegan Gibbs, Nils Müller, Ruedi One, Ian Cox and others. Similar to the Urban Exploration Photography post this list became one of the Urban Art Core motors over the last months, attracting attention by many of our visitors and friends on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest! For that reason, and due to the fact that this is my 1,000th post on Urban Art Core, I decided to update the list of the top urban art photographers, to help you finding the right inspiration from the world of street art and graffiti! ...

Graffiti Art Awards 2011

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… ...

Walls & Frames - Fine Street Art

Bringing together round about 100 of the most famous and talented urban artists from around the world like Vhils, Amose, Base23, Boxi, L’Atlas and Smash 137 (just to name a few), Walls & Frames - Fine Art from the Streets by Maximiliano Ruiz and Gestalten Publishing presents on 265 colorful pages a cutting-edge collection of recent artworks by young artists who are moving from the street into galleries. Street art has firmly established itself as a facet and attitude in the landscape of contemporary art. Today, young artists are going beyond their work on the streets to present their innovative styles in galleries. Walls & Frames documents the work of this next generation of street artists. ...

Google meets Urban Art

After Urbanartcore reached nearly 1,400 friends on Facebook and 4,172 followers on Twitter, I set up the official Urbanartcore page on Google+ a few days ago. From today on it’s open to every urban art enthusiast who wants to celebrate street art and graffiti also via the google community! My idea with that new, official page is to spread the creative urban voice loud and far by providing the latest news, links, statements and event-dates from the urban art movement around the globe (especially those, I’m not mentioning on this blog!) by bringing together all the great sources I’m discovering every day. ...

New Banksy, Huge Murals, Edible Spray Paint & a Beer Fountain

During the last days, there were a lot of really interesting street art and graffiti news. Lots of artists spent hours and days to paint new murals around the world, to create fantastic sculptures and installations and to many other dope things. Here’s a small collection of impressing stuff, I got not enough time to write about…Enjoy! London probably got a new Banksy! As VNA reported, this falling shopping cart stencil artwork could be another masterpiece… ...

Urban Art Books & Mags Special

It’s the last day in this year’s October and although it’s still sunny (at least in Berlin) the dark and cold season is coming closer and closer. For that reason I’d like to give you the chance to grab some good reading before you’re getting bored while staying inside all day long by recommending you the latest urban art books and magazines I got so far… To do that in a somehow structured way, I collected a stack of urban art related publications by different publishers which I’ll introduce to you one after another during the first half of November. And to extend this Urban Art Books & Mags Special and to bring joy to some of you I will also give away some of the presented printed works. So make sure to check out the upcoming book and magazine reviews! ...

Urban Artists in Action, Art Takes Miami Voting

I’m glad to inform you, that my Urban Artists in Action #1 photo-series is participating in this year’s Art Takes Miami contest! I’m pretty sure some of you already got this info via Facebook and I know that a lot already helped out, but today I’d like to officially ask all of you again to support my photo-series by voting for me and my pics to make it possible to win the People’s Choice Award. ...

Artconnect Berlin: Artists Network

I’m pretty sure, some of the Berlin-based readers already heard about Artconnect Berlin, nevertheless I have to write some lines about this new networking platform for artists, because I like the idea behind… Artconnect Berlin is a free tool for Berliners and provides you the opportunity to have an online portfolio, tag yourself by your skills, and find or be found by other creative heads. Additionally you have the possibility to offer jobs, and post classifieds about material, studios and general questions about Berlin and it’s creative scene. All in all this sounds like a nice, new thing to check out, especially because the creative scene in Berlin changes every day. I already joined, so make sure to add me as a contact after you did the same! ...