# Urban Art Core

> Street art and graffiti reporting from 2009–2012: artist interviews, galleries and photo essays from Berlin to Bristol and beyond. 1113 posts, published 2009–2026, written by Jan Brennenstuhl.

Every post is available as HTML at its URL, and as JSON (`index.json`) and Markdown (`index.md`) by appending the file name to the post URL, for example https://www.urbanartcore.com/see-no-evil-bristol-final-walls/index.md. Pages advertise these with `<link rel="alternate">`. Each post page also links to related posts (with the reason they are related), its place in each artist's or event's chronology, and the collections that include it.

Usage: retrieval, indexing and quoting with attribution are welcome. Cite the author, title, publication date and URL. Photographs credited to third parties keep their own rights. For whole-site work, use the feeds and sitemaps below instead of crawling every page, and keep request rates modest.

## Start here

- [All posts (JSON)](https://www.urbanartcore.com/index.json): title, URL, date, topics and summary of every post
- [JSON Feed](https://www.urbanartcore.com/feed.json) and [RSS](https://www.urbanartcore.com/index.xml): all posts, newest first
- [Sitemap](https://www.urbanartcore.com/sitemap.xml) and [machine sitemap](https://www.urbanartcore.com/sitemap-machine.xml): every page and every JSON/Markdown alternate
- [Search](https://www.urbanartcore.com/search/): `https://www.urbanartcore.com/search/?q={query}`

## How the content is structured

Every tag is typed as an artist (artists, crews, photographers), place, event, technique, format or topic. Each tag page lists its posts and shows the tags it most often appears with; append `index.json` to a tag URL for the same as data (type, years covered, related tags, all posts), for example https://www.urbanartcore.com/nychos/index.json. Tag pages also have `index.xml` (RSS) and `feed.json` (JSON Feed).

- [Artists](https://www.urbanartcore.com/artists/), [Places](https://www.urbanartcore.com/places/), [Events](https://www.urbanartcore.com/events/), [Techniques](https://www.urbanartcore.com/techniques/), [all tags by type](https://www.urbanartcore.com/tags/)
- [Sections](https://www.urbanartcore.com/categories/): the ten editorial sections
- [All posts by month](https://www.urbanartcore.com/archives/)

## Collections

Hand-picked reading routes: posts in the order to read them, with a note on each. Each collection is also available as `index.json` and `index.md`.

- [A stencil art primer](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/stencil-art/) (7 posts): From C215’s portraits to Berlin’s stencil scene: how stencil artists work, and who mattered between 2009 and 2012.
- [After dark](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/light-and-projection/) (8 posts): Light writing, LED interventions and buildings turned into screens: the city as a canvas after sunset.
- [Beauty in decay](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/abandoned-places/) (7 posts): Abandoned buildings photographed by urban explorers: a Berlin listening station, the ruins of Detroit, a Bulgarian monument.
- [Blu and Roa](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/blu-and-roa/) (7 posts): Two muralists at the height of their reach: Blu’s animated walls and political murals, Roa’s giant animals.
- [In their own words](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/interviews/) (9 posts): Graffiti legends and street artists talk about their roots, styles and ideas: Futura 2000, Mode2, Os Gêmeos, Vhils and more.
- [One street, two summers](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/bristol/) (3 posts): 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.
- [Taking back the billboards](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/adbusting/) (8 posts): Artists who replaced, hacked and rewrote outdoor advertising, from Berlin and Paris to Madrid and Toronto.
- [Tape, yarn and cardboard](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/tape-yarn-cardboard/) (8 posts): Gaffer tape, cotton thread and cardboard boxes: artists who built their work from the cheapest materials in the city.
- [The Banksy years](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/banksy-years/) (8 posts): How one film, one rival and a lot of rumours shaped street art’s most famous name between 2010 and 2012.
- [Trains and tunnels](https://www.urbanartcore.com/collections/trains-and-tunnels/) (7 posts): Train writing, subway crews and the tunnels beneath the city, from a commissioned Thalys to the Paris catacombs.

## About

- [About Urban Art Core](https://www.urbanartcore.com/about/), including [AI and agent use](https://www.urbanartcore.com/about/#ai-and-agent-use)
- [Imprint and contact](https://www.urbanartcore.com/imprint/)