Banksy

It’s been a long time, since the last Urban Art Link-Tips literary came into the world… the latest are from back in December 2011. Nevertheless, I really like the idea of giving a short overview about things that happened during the last weeks and didn’t made it into the Urban Art Core stream! Here we go… - **Ever**, one of the best young muralists in South America, just posted that pretty [video of his recent trip to Mexico](http://blog.vandalog.com/2012/07/video-ever-in-mexico/). - [Urban artist **Vinz**](/usual-misdeeds-vinz-austria/) recently created this very nice [*Don’t Be Afraid*](http://urbanshit.de/?p=8934) mural in his home-town Valencia... …and also my French friend Shaka put up a new mural in Melun, France! ...

For a lot of people around the globe, the stencil artworks by British street art icon Banksy are the quintessence of politically influenced street art comedy. Whether the flower throwing anarchist, the peace symbol painting soldiers, or even the Child Drawing series, Banksy knows how to combine political statements with more or less subtle jokes… Not long ago, the Twitter account Banksy Ideas was registered, describing itself as The R&D dept at Banksy HQ and developing parodying ideas for new Banksy-like stencil artworks. Here’s some of my favorites: ...

Is Pasha 183 (also P183) the Russian Banksy? Since January, the international urban art scene debates about this controversial question… P183 is a Moscow born and based multi media artist, whose work has recently received international coverage and acclaim. On January 31, 2012 the British Guardian published an online post about Moscow’s Banksy and his street art and started in that way an worldwide media campaign including internet-wide discussions about whether the British are going to declare each and every urban hacktivist or public intervention artist as a new Banksy… ...

This is definitely the best stencil street artwork I’ve seen this year! Although it certainly looks like a new Banksy piece, unfortunately nobody is as safe as houses and knows if this great origami stencil artwork in London was made by the British street art legend or not. Nevertheless, it’s fucking lovely! If you know details, let me know… New Banksy Stencil Artwork Photo via The Lonely Villein, info via verynearlyalmost.com.

Yep, it’s the end of the year which means that it’s time for the annual top-list reviews! Back in 2010, I collected the Top 3 Urban Art Books and honored the Top Urban Artists and for sure I’m going to create some similar top-lists also for 2011! But before I’ll do so, I thought it probably would be interesting for you to get to know this year’s five most popular Urbanartcore posts, for what reason I deeply eyed the traffic statistics to find the most visited articles which were published during the last 52 weeks. Here are the most popular posts in 2011: ...

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… ...

For some (like me) he is just a very popular street artist, for others he is a legend, worth to write down all the myths around him… In his book Banksy: Myths and Legends, Marc Leverton collected stories about Banksy himself. Compiled between 2009 and 2011, some of these stories have been told so many times they have become the stuff of legend, while others are more questionable and can best be described as myths. ...

Again we pulled through another month and again I really enjoyed it, bringing the latest street art and graffiti news, urban art photos and book review directly into your browser. Here are the most popular posts in September: IBUg 2011 – Urban Art Festival Photos Organized by famous German graffiti artist Ta55o, this year’s IBUg festival took place in Saxonia again. I joined the preparations was able to give you some nice insights… ...

After eight years and several new layers of paint, Berlin-based artist Brad Downey and curator Andrian Nabi recently revealed an original Banksy mural! banksy revealation The mural, entitled Every Picture Tells a Lie, which was created by the world’s most famous street artist in 2003 as a part of the legendary Back Jumps Live Issue festival in Berlin-Kreuzberg, shows five winged and smile-faced cops and is now part of the What Lies Beneath artwork by Downey, which belongs to the currently running Do not think exhibition at the Bethanien Arts Centre. ...

As I already explained in the urban art recap for July, I’m going to regularly feature the five top posts for every month in a special recap post. This are the most popular posts in August 2011: Graffiti Wars: Banksy vs. Robbo British Channel4 broadcasted Graffiti Wars, a documentary about the clash between graffiti and street art by analyzing the King Robbo vs. Banksy battle in and around London. Unfortunately the content mafia interfered broadcasting on Youtube or Vimeo… ...