7 postsCut, layer, spray
A stencil art primer
From C215’s portraits to Berlin’s stencil scene: how stencil artists work, and who mattered between 2009 and 2012.
10 reading routes
Collections
Hand-picked reading routes through Urban Art Core, each a short sequence of posts that make sense together.
8 postsLight writing and projection mapping
After dark
Light writing, LED interventions and buildings turned into screens: the city as a canvas after sunset.
7 postsUrban exploration
Beauty in decay
Abandoned buildings photographed by urban explorers: a Berlin listening station, the ruins of Detroit, a Bulgarian monument.
7 postsMural art at full scale
Blu and Roa
Two muralists at the height of their reach: Blu’s animated walls and political murals, Roa’s giant animals.
9 postsInterviews, 2009–2012
In their own words
Graffiti legends and street artists talk about their roots, styles and ideas: Futura 2000, Mode2, Os Gêmeos, Vhils and more.
3 postsBristol, 2011–2012
One street, two summers
Three reports on See No Evil, the festival that turned Bristol’s Nelson Street into an outdoor gallery, read in the order they were published.
8 postsAdbusting and advertising takeovers
Taking back the billboards
Artists who replaced, hacked and rewrote outdoor advertising, from Berlin and Paris to Madrid and Toronto.
8 postsStreet art without spray paint
Tape, yarn and cardboard
Gaffer tape, cotton thread and cardboard boxes: artists who built their work from the cheapest materials in the city.
8 postsExit Through the Gift Shop and after, 2010–2012
The Banksy years
How one film, one rival and a lot of rumours shaped street art’s most famous name between 2010 and 2012.
7 postsTrain writing and the city underground
Trains and tunnels
Train writing, subway crews and the tunnels beneath the city, from a commissioned Thalys to the Paris catacombs.