--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Urban Art Link Tips cover: alt: Mother’s Day, Paint Club, Herakut Murals, Tagzines & Modern Saints height: 840 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/herakut-murals-tagzines-modern-saints/Herakut-Mural.jpg width: 1880 credit: '' date: '2011-05-08T11:56:33Z' description: A lot of great urban art stuff happed around the globe in the last week, for what reason I try to give you a small overview with these link-tips, including new murals, urban interventions and other info... tags: - Interview - Mural Art - Herakut - Paper Art title: Mother’s Day, Paint Club, Herakut Murals, Tagzines & Modern Saints url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/herakut-murals-tagzines-modern-saints/ --- # Mother’s Day, Paint Club, Herakut Murals, Tagzines & Modern Saints *Urban Art News* | It’s Mother’s Day and I hope you already pleased your mum with a small thing! To give you some nice lecture before the sun starts to burn us again, I collected some interesting street art and graffiti news from the last week which hasn’t been mentioned here yet. Have fun exploring all the great stuff... ## Minimalistic Geometric Images ...are the result of the logo-modifying series [*“You Took My Name”* by **Dorothy**](http://www.ektopia.co.uk/ektopia/2011/04/14/you-took-my-name/)! The artist removed the companies names out of their famous logos... ## Futura 2000 in Melbourne Legendary graffiti artist **Futura 2000** was the main attraction at Carbon festival in Melbourne, Australia! He live-painted a wall in his well-known abstract style - photos can be found on [Arrested Motion](http://arrestedmotion.com/2011/05/live-painting-futura-carbon/). ## MOAS - 20 Years of Havoc *“On the Run Publishing”* did the next book! Featuring **Monsters of Art** (Europe’s most notorious train-writing crew!) [the book](http://www.ontherun.de/blog/2011/04/otr-books-13-moas/) gives a nice insight into their concepts, action and history... ## Upmost Tagzine The next issue of the nice *“Upmost Tagzine”* has just been published - This sixth issue focuses on [hand-styles from London](http://www.allcityblog.fr/19558-upmost-tagzine-6/)! ## Armless painter I really respect those people: [A man without arms](http://www.invasianmagazine.com/art/armless-painter.html) has become the vice curator of an art museum in China! He paints street scenes using his feet... ## Gould’s Modern Saints Poster-Series Berlin-based urban artist **Gould** did a new, brilliant [poster series about modern saints](http://www.crackajack.de/2011/05/01/goulds-st-gentrifizian-modern-martyr-of-mayday/), including characters like the St. Gentrifizian, Santa Data, St. Abusa and other referencing to latest topics in society debates... ## Pothole Knitting **Juliana Santacruz Herrera** patched [Parisian potholes](http://urbanshit.de/?p=5014)! In that way she created another urban knitting branch... ## Mother’s Day Street Installation A couple of artists created some [Mother’s Day street installation](http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/05/making-mothers-day-easy/) in San Fransisco, including re-stamped envelopes with letters inside near mail boxes to help out lazier people...nice idea! ## Urban Upholstery Artist **Bert Löschner** beautifies urban environment by [transforming public benches](http://www.rebelart.net/diary/bert-loschner-%E2%80%9Curban-upholstery%E2%80%9D-2011/009021/) almost into sofas! Seems to be quite comfortable... ## Martha Cooper Interview The popular [VNA Magazine](/burning-desire-magazine-vna-14/) met up with well-known photographer Martha Cooper at the MOCA Geffin center and did [a nice (video-) interview](http://verynearlyalmost.com/blog/2011/05/03/martha-cooper-moca-art-in-the-streets/)! ## KR Painting Walls G-Shock and Krink celebrated their recent partnership with a unique exhibition of **Craig Costello**’s work including [a colorful extinguisher installation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R22vwA6XX3M)! ## New Herakut Murals **Herakut** recently hit the streets in Culver City and created a bunch of [new mural artworks](http://platinumcheese.com/2011/04/27/round-the-hood-herakut-in-culver-city/), including new motives! ## Paint Club Special Berlin A great team of urban artists including **Clemens Behr**, **Wurstbande**, **Sam Crew**, **44flavours**, **Klub7** and others painted together at the [Paint Club Special in Berlin](http://www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2011/05/06/the-paint-club-special-picknick-berlin/)!