Mural Art on Urban Art Core

Low Bros, Mural Competition, Staple City & a Full Length Skateboardmovie

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:02:56 +0000

This is a list of great urban art related art, including murals by Low Bros, a city made of staples, a board game about gentrification and more dope stuff!

Urban Forms: Sainer Mural in Poland

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:05:55 +0000

Mural artist Sainer just finished a new mural for the Polish Urban Forms Project which can be found in the heart of Lodz. Here is the video documentary!

Racists Against Os Gemeos Mural

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:29:59 +0000

Racists verbally attacked the new Os Gemeos mural Boston, describing it e.g. as a slap in the face to all those who lost someone on 9/11...

Moneyless for Fame Festival 2012

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:22:01 +0000

This is a small video-documentary of artworks by yarn-bomber and urban artist Moneyless for the Fame Festival 2012 in Grottaglie, Italy.

Decayed Church Mural by Vhils

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:35:49 +0000

The pretty awesome decayed church mural was recently created by famous urban artist Vhils for the Walk and Talk festival on the Azores...

Os Gemeos Mural Boston

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Brazilian graffiti twins Os Gemeos are currently painting murals in Boston! Tomorrow their first US solo exhibition will open its doors...

Like it. Art - Street Art Festival in Russia

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:50:07 +0000

Recently Europe’s biggest street art festival Like it. Art finished up. Here are some first impressions of the finished murals from Kazan!

Like It. Art: Pixelpancho Mural in Russia

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:06:04 +0000

Italian mural artist Pixelpancho finished a new huge mural! This time he painted for the Like It. Art urban art festival in Kazan, Russia...

DAIM Mural in Bologna

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:37:47 +0000

German graffiti artist DAIM recently finished the massive 3D mural he painted for the Frontier graffiti festival in Bologna. It’s just amazing! First pics here...

Crimes of Minds: Liliwenn & Bom K Mural

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:17:41 +0000

Another Crimes of Minds mural just finished! Liliwenn and Bom K (DMV) finished up their collaboration wall in Brest - here are first shots!

Higgs Boson Mural

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:21:16 +0000

Artist Josef Kristofoletti painted a three story tall Higgs Boson mural directly above the detector at CERN near the Swiss-French border!

Urban Forms: Shida Mural in Lodz

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:09:47 +0000

Shida Mural: Aussie street artist Shida came up with a new vibrant mural artwork for Urban Forms in Lodz, Poland. Check it out, it’s amazing!

Urban Micro Gardens, Hidden Shops, Amazing Murals & Awesome Tape Art

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:51:16 +0000

The monthly Urban Art Link-Tips feature urban micro gardens, hidden shops, amazing murals, awesome tape art and much more. Check this out!

Calligraphica - Hand Drawn Type & Calligraphy

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:30:58 +0000

Calligraphica is a nice blog about calligraphy and hand drawn type, presenting contributions by several skilled designers and artists...

Painting Favelas: Boa Mistura in Sao Paulo

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:44:15 +0000

Spanish urban art crew Boa Mistura went to Brazil earlier this year and beautified a favela in Sao Paulo. This is their video documentary!

WTF: RNG Graffiti Action in Moscow

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:40:41 +0000

Moscow’s RNG graffiti crew went big when they well-prepared bombed that huge motorway noise barrier during a sunny day! It’s impressive...

Concrete Art: Vhils in Lisbon

Fri, 25 May 2012 18:14:38 +0000

Vhils just visited Lisbon and beautified one of the oldest concrete blocks, an abandoned concrete tower in the Portuguese capital! Wow...

Wrinkles of the City: Dope JR & José Parla Murals in Havana

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:13:21 +0000

There are many murals in Havana, but recently the Cuban capital got some new ones by JR and José Parla, who combined photography and tags!

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada Paints Huge Wall Faces

Mon, 07 May 2012 09:31:14 +0000

Cuban American artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada recently created a new temporary wall faces mural in Bahrain, showing an anonymous face as usual!

Egyptian Mural Makes Concrete Wall Transparent!

Thu, 03 May 2012 11:29:38 +0000

Egyptian graffiti artists created murals vanishing military barriers in Cairo by making them visually transparent. What a great protest!

The Shard: A Timelapse Study

Wed, 02 May 2012 19:51:24 +0000

The Shard tower in London is just impressing. This timelapse shows the final weeks of construction of The Shard tower in London Bridge!

Light Graffiti - Gorillas Occupy Industrial Harbour

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:43:08 +0000

In one of the industrial harbours along the Rhine river, a light graffiti crew used the strange, dirty and old scenery to awake Gorillas!

GorillaLighting is a light art crew from Germany who is not just projecting Gorilla faces onto facades, but also (probably inspired by Luzinterruptus) illuminating plants, recently for the Luminale festival in Frankfurt.

Projected as light graffiti the gorilla portrait breathes nocturnal life into the unreal world. Huge fronts cry for attention. Grotesque steel giants wait for a character.

New Huge Roa Hedgehog in London

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:11:22 +0000

Famous Belgian muralist Roa recently put up a new huge hedgehog on Chance Street in East-London’s Shoreditch! Roa, who visited the British capital again for his Hypnagogia show at Stolenspace Gallery, created in that way a new pilgrim shrine for new and old fans of his renown portrayals of large scale urban wildlife, hand painted in his distinctive black and white style.

After spending several weeks in Australia, this new Roa hedgehog is the first mural he painted in Europe for a long time and I’m pretty sure it will be a good reason for all the Olympics tourists to visit Shoreditch…

Jeff Soto - Robotic Graffiti Mural

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:54:05 +0000

Watch Jeff Soto in an amazing world-first street-art collaboration and check out what an artist and a paint-spraying robot car can create!

Blu Mural Against Europe’s Border

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:15:12 +0000

Famous mural artist Blu came up with a new mural in Melilla, questioning Europe’s border policy which often is described as barbed wire...

International Mural Locator

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:50:49 +0000

Mural Locator is a simple to use web tool that helps people locate public murals around the world, what makes it useful for next holidays!

New Herakut Train Tracks Mural in Germany

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:45:27 +0000

Brothers helping Sisters helping... - German urban art duo Herakut just painted a new massive train tracks mural in Mannheim. Take a look!

Photo-Realistic Murals in Berlin - James Bullough

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:49:12 +0000

Berlin-based American urban artist James Bullough is currently painting two photo-realistic murals in Berlin. This is the corresponding photo-story!

Anamorphic Graffiti - TSF Crew

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:22:12 +0000

French TSF crew just came up with several impressing anamorphic graffiti works, using anamorphosis to create great, confusing effects!

James Bullough - On the Shoulders of Giants

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:57:41 +0000

US-American urban artist James Bullough is currently painting two massive giant murals in the Torstrasse 111 art space in Berlin. I just visited him and took some photos!

The Largest Mural in London

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:08:02 +0000

Agents of Change have been busy painting the largest mural in London using their abstract graffiti style qualities to transform a Georgian building in the city center!

Everfresh & Friends Fighting Extinction

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:40:17 +0000

The guys, who invented the biggest marker worldwide and created their own graffiti mobile known under the popping name Everfresh, just teamed up with a couple of friends to repaint Melbourne’s infamous ACDC Lane for charity…

Zoos Victoria is fighting extinction and has committed to ensure twenty native species do not go extinct on their watch. Enlisting the help of laneway artists from Everfresh and Blender studios, the fight has taken to the streets. The murals will help to raise awareness of some of these critically endangered species, many of which live right in Melbourne’s own backyard. For more info zoo.org.au!

Herakut Mural in Norway

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:03 +0000

German urban art duo Herakut went big last year at Nuart festival in Norway and created a massive mural. This video documents the process!

Cave Berlin Gallery

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:05:49 +0000

JBAK is a creative partnership between artists James Bullough and Addison Karl. Recently, they painted at Cave Berlin, the upcoming, new art space for urban-influenced artists!

Berlin gets Colorful - Quintessenz Extinguisher Action

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:01:12 +0000

Berlin-based Quintessenz Creation crew painted a colorful mural in Berlin using nothing more than paint and alienated fire extinguishers...!

Art Censorship - China Censors Heart Noose

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:00:14 +0000

China Censors Heart Noose! If you don’t believe in censorship please spread the message in whatever way you can and fight art censorship!

Typography Murals in Sao Paulo

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:02:24 +0000

Brazilian suburb redesigned! Spnaish Boa Mistura crew recently did a participative urban art project in Sao Paulo and created by the help of local kids nice anamorphic murals!

DMV Melbourne Australia

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:46:24 +0000

Bom-K, Blo, Brusk, Dran, Gris1, ISO, Jaw, Kan and Sowat (DMV) are currently in Melbourne, exhibiting and painting huge murals like this one!

New Vhils Murals in Shanghai

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:17:56 +0000

Famous Portuguese urban artist Vhils is in China right now, preparing a new exhibition and creating spectacular Vhils murals in Shanghai...

Conor Harrington Murals in Ireland

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:14:09 +0000

Conor Harrington murals are always a great attraction. In summer 2011, the Irishman painted three amazing, colorful murals during a journey through Ireland!

Nychos & Flying Fortress: Anatomy of Mother Bear

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:27:22 +0000

Well-known graffiti artists Nychos and Flying Fortress just created this amazing mother bear graffiti in Vienna! It’s the first sweet taste of more they gonna produce together in 2012...

Black Hills Not 4 Sale!

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:21:04 +0000

Shepard Fairey’s latest mural in Los Angeles calls attention on the many problems of the native’s reservation in the Black Hills! Check this out...

Urban Art Berlin: James Bullough & Karl Addison

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:03:58 +0000

Originally from Baltimore and Seattle, Bullough and Addison currently live and work in Berlin. Though their styles and approaches are different, they’re pushing the local urban art scene!

Blu Murals Buenos Aires

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:14:03 +0000

Famous mural art king Blu is on tour through Argentina right now, painting one mural after another in Buenos Aires! This is a collection of his latest wall paintings...

Herakut Mural Time Lapse

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:21:46 +0000

Herakut is probably the most famous German urban art duo. Back in 2011, they traveled Los Angeles and created some amazing murals - this is the corresponding time lapse video!

Top 5 of Urban Artcore 2011

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:27:19 +0000

2011 Recap: Graffiti Wars, train-writing documentaries, Banksy dummies and animal murals - that were this year’s most popular urban art news on Urbanartcore. What a nice year!

Tilt – Anarchy in the UK

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:20:24 +0000

French graffiti artist Tilt, renowned for painting on buildings, canvases and naked women, just painted the Union Jack made up of lyrics from the Sex Pistols God Save the Queen...

Vhils - Destruction Art Book

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:54:36 +0000

Vhils is undoubtedly one of the most skilled and talented young artists on the urban art scene. He creates technically masterful, contemporary portraits...This is his book!

3ttman: Muralissimo in Kiev

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:56:41 +0000

3ttman had been invited by the Muralissimo street art festival to paint a facade in Kiev and enjoyed not just painting a big mural, but also the hospitality and kindness of Ukrainian people...

Animae Dementia Berlin Exploration

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:37:38 +0000

French urban art crew Animae Dementia is exploring Berlin at the moment, for what reason we got some nice new mural art attractions in some of our abandoned areas! Check this out...

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

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:19:07 +0000

Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to write about all the great things taking place around the world. This is a small collection of new murals, fantastic sculptures, installations and other dope street art and graffiti things!

Warsaw All-star Mural: Nawer, Chazme718, Sepe & Roem

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:59:38 +0000

Well-known graffiti artists Nawer, Chazme718, Sepe and Roem teamed up earlier this year and painted a dope mural in Warsaw. Here are some photos - Better late than never!

Panos Sklavenitis - No Signal in Athens

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:46:22 +0000

Greek artist Panos Sklavenitis created a nice, huge mural in the streets of Athens, describing the actual feeling in Greece in a perfect, pragmatic way! I like it...

Buff Diss, Something from Nothing London

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:06:57 +0000

A few days ago, the Make Something from Nothing art event launched in London’s Village Underground, what is why Australian tape artist Buff Diss visited the city and taped a new dope mural...

Roa in Western Australia

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:17:14 +0000

In the last months, famous urban artist and animal painter Roa was able to paint a bunch of great walls in Western Australia. Here are some photos of his latest mural artworks from Perth and Fremantle...

How & Nosm Murals in New York

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:19:07 +0000

Spanish urban art duo How & Nosm have been quite busy during the last weeks and months. Recently some of their murals in New York were discovered...Take a look!

ECB Mural in London

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:58:25 +0000

German urban artist Hendrik Beikirch aka ECB visited London back in September to paint one of his well-known greyscale face murals for Soon Gallery. Recently the corresponding documentary was published!

Abstract Graffiti: Graphic Surgery in Dresden

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:26:49 +0000

As a part of the CityBilder project, famous abstract graffiti duo Graphic Surgery just finished painting a new mural in Dresden, Germany. The black and white piece is called Bauhaus...

Roa in Australia, a new Brad Downey Book & Murals around the Globe

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:14:02 +0000

This weeks urban art link-tips include info about Roa in Australia, a new Brad Downey book, fantastic murals by Pixelpancho, and even more street art and graffiti news from around the globe!

How & Nosm Mural, Los Angeles

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:07:50 +0000

As part of the L.A. Freewalls project, the latest mural artwork by Spanish-born urban artists How & Nosm worked finally out as a master-piece! Take a look and be impressed...

Freedom Park Berlin

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:48:29 +0000

For the 50th anniversary of the beginning of building the berlin wall in 1961 the Freedom Park exhibition presents a selection of paintings by contemporary artists made on the original cement segments of the Berlin Wall.

Da Mental Vaporz Mural in Brest

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:15:49 +0000

Talented graffiti crew Da Mental Vaporz recently finished their works on their new mural in the French city of Brest! The new exquisite corpse like masterpiece combines the styles of each DMV member...

Visual Intervention, Mural Art Project in Rochester

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:44:13 +0000

Believe/ Visual Intervention is a short documentary which chronicles a first-of-its-kind public art mural project which took place in Rochester, NY in July 2011, involving local artists and a group of four artists from Cape Town...

Crimes of Minds - Da Mental Vaporz Session

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:14:06 +0000

Famous French graffiti crew Da Mental Vaporz recently started to paint a massive wall in Brest! The wall belongs to the urban art festival Crimes of Minds which started already in April...

Sydney: McGee Wall to be Buffed!

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:59:42 +0000

A nice tag-wall by famous American artist Barry McGee is going to be buffed by Sydney’s city council! The wall was accidentally painted as a part of the Art & About festival...

Ozmo’s Big Fish Mural, London

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:25:34 +0000

Well-known Italian painter and street artist Gionata Gesi aka Ozmo recently created a new mural in London named Big Fish Eat Small Fish! Here are some first photos of the entire creation process by Petra Valenti...

Blo - New Mural in Berlin

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:18:42 +0000

Painting a whole week, Da Mental Vaporz member and well-known graffiti artist Blo recently finished a new, huge mural in Berlin! Here are some nice insights of the entire creation process...!

Manolis Anastasakos: Praying in Athens

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:25:52 +0000

Manolis Anastasakos and the Kretsis crew recently created a fantastic comment on Europe’s social, economical and political crisis, by painting Dürer’s Praying Hands upside down on a huge wall in Athens city center...

Sky Writing, Urbex in Moscow, Human Rights & Car Sculptures

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:43:35 +0000

Sky-writing, new Sam3 murals, dope urbex in Moscow, a tribute to a Human Rights Award winner, new Space Invaders, a car sculpture and Artillerie photos - that are this week’s urban art link-tips...

Rero, La Jarry, Paris

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:35:59 +0000

French urban artist Rero recently painted the facade of the La Jarry building, an art, studio and exhibition space for many urban artists which is planned to break down by the city of Paris. Paradigm describes it perfectly...

Karl Addison & James Bullough, Mural in Berlin

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:21:11 +0000

Berlin-based urban artists Karl Addison and James Bullough created a new mural in Berlin-Kreuzberg a few days ago. Recently they published a short video documenting the entire painting action! Watch it now...

Banksy Revealed!

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:52:52 +0000

An original, eight years old Banksy mural was recently revealed by Berlin-based artist Brad Downey and curator Andrian Nabi! The wall was originally painted by the most famous street artist during the Bach Jumps festival in 2003...

Herakut Book: After The Laughter

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:36:15 +0000

German urban art books publisher Publikat is going to publish the second book about the most popular German urban art duo Herakut! With 240 fully collaged pages it gives detailed insights into their creative process...

Girls on Bikes, Isolated Spaces, a Week in Paris & Gallery Openings

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:57:39 +0000

A lot urban art related stuff happened during the week I visited the urban art festival IBUg in Saxon, for what reason I put together my favorite street art and graffiti news and created this weeks urban art link-tips...

Herakut Mural - CityLeaks Festival

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:58:34 +0000

Famous urban art duo Hera and Akut recently created a new mural - this time in Cologne, as a part of the currently running CityLeaks urban art festival! It’s a real eye-catcher again and definitely worth to check it out...

Blu Mural, Cologne

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:30:37 +0000

This stop-motion video focuses on the entire creation process of Blu’s anti-BP mural and the Captain Borderline painting for the urban art festival CityLeaks in the heart of Cologne, which were created earlier this year!

Urban Art Recap, August 2011

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:06:47 +0000

Banksy vs. Robbo, a roadshow, a new Shepard Fairey mural, abandoned places in Berlin and Berlin Wall paintings - these are the five top stories on Urbanartcore in August 2011. Urban Art Recap features the most visited stories a second time...

Murals, Megaphone, Monster Interview & a Trashman

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:58:16 +0000

This week’s urban art link-tips includes not just a story about a trashman, an interview with MyMo, and some megaphone installation action, but also amazing walls painted by amazing street art and graffiti artists...

Tallest Mural Worldwide?!

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:07:14 +0000

Urban artist Sam3 recently created the probably tallest mural artwork worldwide! In Atlanta, the Spanish painted a 15-story-tall motive on a wall as a part of the Living Walls street art conference...

Helios - 3D Projection Mapping

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:27:41 +0000

During the Skyway International Light Festival in Poland, the facade projection crew Limelight created a fantastic 3D projection mapping in public space, explaining the story of the heliocentric theory by Nicolaus Copernicus...

Nunca, Berlin Wall Graffiti

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:11:21 +0000

Famous Brazilian graffiti artists Nunca just visited Berlin to paint an original wall segments from the former inner-German border as a part of the Berlin Wall Freedom Park in memory of the Berlin Wall building up 50 years ago...

Berlin Wall Freedom Park

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:49:56 +0000

In memory of the Berlin Wall building up 50 years ago and to create an artistic sign for freedom, eight famous urban artists including Superblast, Nunca and Miss Van are going to repaint several original wall segments!

Shepard Fairey, Oslo Memorial

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:14:51 +0000

Shepard Fairey designed the first memorial mural to honour the victims of the terror of July 22 in Oslo! His staff recently pasted up the huge mural at Kirkeveien 59 in the city center communicating peace...

Art Prints, Facade Painters, Paper Toy & Blackbook Insights

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:01:30 +0000

It’s time for some urban art link-tips again! In the last days I stumbled upon a great documentary about facade painters, the +Pool project in New York, a nice DIY paper toy folding-guide and some more nice urban art news...

Postmodern Zombieism, Murals, Interviews & Adbusting

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:23:09 +0000

Nychos did some Zombieism in Cologne, Zosen worked on Postmodernism and some dope new mural artworks as well as interviews and adbustings were created...Here are the urban art short news!

Shepard Fairey Mural, Copenhagen

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:16:28 +0000

Shepard Fairey is painting murals in Copenhagen right now. His first peace dove wall is located on Jagtvej 69, the address of Copenhagen’s former Ungedomshuset! Let’s see what else is going to come up...

Aryz, Huge in Italy!

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:05:23 +0000

Aryz is not just one of my favorite artists, but one of the most famous urban artists in Europe! The Barcelona-based Spaniard recently created another impressive and huge mural artwork, this time in Italy...

Mural Art: Irgh & Over/Under in New York

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:33:51 +0000

Berlin-based urban artist Irgh from the Wurstbande street art crew and NYC-lad Over/Under recently teamed up to create some nice collaboration murals in an abandoned warehouse somewhere in Staten Island...

Roa Exhibition in Berlin - Photos

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:51:07 +0000

Famous Belgian urban artist Roa opened his first Berlin solo-exhibition yesterday at Skalizers Gallery. Again he created a fantastic show, including murals, installations, paintings and drawings presenting animals in his well-known style. Here are some first photos!

Roa Exhibition in Berlin

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:22:53 +0000

His animal graffiti are well-known around the globe, for what reason I’m happy to have him back in town now! Belgian graffiti artist Roa is preparing his first solo-show in Berlin and is also going to paint new murals...

CityLeaks - Urban Art Festival

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:27:09 +0000

CityLeaks is an international urban art festival taking place 2011 in Cologne, including superb urban artists from all over the world like Blu, Roa and Faith47!

Mural Art: El Tono in Warsaw

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:35:17 +0000

Famous Spanish urban artist El Tono recently created two new abstract mural artworks in Warsaw, Poland and continues in this way a new East-Europe street art trend...

Mode2 Live Mural Art - Photos

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:41:33 +0000

Famous graffiti legend Mode2 recently live painted a big mural in Berlin! I caught up with him and took some nice photos of this live art performance. Take a look!

Mode2 Live Art Performance

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:32:55 +0000

Mode2 is one of the most famous graffiti artists in Europe - his skills in bringing painted characters to live are well-known around the world. This is why I’m always happy to find one or another new mural he created in the last months in Berlin! Tomorrow, we all have the chance to watch him in action…

As a part of the Radical Riddims exhibition opening at the Schau Fenster Gallery, a live art performance by Mode2 is planned. He will create a new mural painting! In my eyes this is a must to see for every urban art enthusiast. I will definitely try to catch up with him…

Roa in Mexico - Mural Art

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:18:07 +0000

Several weeks ago I already posted about the nice new mural artworks by urban art superstar Roa in Mexico. Back then, I didn’t know that his works were well documented on film by Filmaciones de la Ciudad, what’s really good, because we have now the chance to watch him painting…

The Belgian graffiti artist travels the world since a few months, for what reason you can find his works in Madrid, London, Paris, Berlin and other metropolises! I for one like Roa’s animal graffiti stuff, and it’s always impressing to see how some skilled artists are possible to paint those massive walls…

Rallito X - Abandoned Monster Art

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:41:33 +0000

I personally met Spanish street artist Rallito X first when I visited Madrid earlier this year. Yesterday I hook up with him again, this time in an abandoned area in the eastern part of Berlin, to explore the rooms of this old sausage factory and to extend my photo-collection of urban artists in action…

In the end, Rallito, whose dirty monster paintings are often garnished with comic-like dicks and provoking slogans, found a nice spot on the very top of the building, for what reason I had some special butterflies in my stomach during the whole action. Nevertheless the results are great again: Berlin has a new crazy monster character and my collection has some nice, new photos!

FinDAC - Stencil Art in Brest

Wed, 25 May 2011 21:01:18 +0000

Fin Dac in Brest

As already mentioned, stencil artist FinDAC and abstract graffiti artist Morten Andersen currently painted at the Crimes of Minds urban art festival in Brest. Recently Fin published some first impressions of one of his murals and arouse in that way a burst of enthusiasm, for what reason I don’t want to withhold those photos from you!

Word To Mother in Action

Wed, 25 May 2011 11:29:15 +0000

The last time I wrote about British urban artist Word To Mother was after my visit of his exhibition opening at Stolen Space Gallery in London. Now I just stumbled upon this dope video by Andrew Telling showing Word To Mother painting for the Fame Festival in Italy back in 2010.

Born and raised in a small English seaside town, never far from a stoney beach, crashing waves and salty sea veterans. It’s this environment that has had such impact and influence on Word to Mothers work and can be seen throughout his drawings and paintings… (Stolen Space Gallery)

Sam3 Mural in Poland

Wed, 25 May 2011 11:06:38 +0000

sam3 in poland

Mural Art | In the last months a lot of new large-scale mural artworks were created by famous urban artists in Poland - One good example is this amazing jazz time mural in Szczecin, another the new Blu wall in Krakow. Recently street art legend Sam3 hit the streets of Poznan and also created a new huge mural artwork!

French Street Crimes: FinDAC & Morten Andersen

Thu, 19 May 2011 15:43:53 +0000

Urban Art Festival | After Best Ever and Ben Slow now highly talented London-based stencil artist FinDAC and well-known Berlin-based abstract graffiti artist Morten Andersen rock the city of Brest! It’s the second episode of the urban art festival “Crimes of Minds” which is organised by French graffiti artist Liliwenn and the non-profit organization Sugar Rush…

The idea behind that event is to bring the creative flair of the big metropolises around the world to this small French town and to document the artworks as well as the artists at work and additionally the reactions of the citizens. For that reason there will be a book recapitulating the entire “Crimes of Minds” process!

New Blu Mural in Krakow

Mon, 16 May 2011 20:30:31 +0000

blu kracow mural

Mural Art | The master of European mural art Blu recently finished another masterpiece wall in the beautiful Polish city of Kracow! Although I don’t know whether the mural’s chief subject - a big bell - is somehow special, this time’s topic seems to be religion and its stupid noises you can’t fail to hear…

Ben Eine Against Zero Tolerance

Mon, 16 May 2011 16:09:41 +0000

Recently, famous graffiti artist Ben Eine created a new mural in London! It’s against the zero tolerance policy on graffiti and street art by Westminster Council.

Mother’s Day, Paint Club, Herakut Murals, Tagzines & Modern Saints

Sun, 08 May 2011 11:56:33 +0000

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...

Caleb Neelon’s Wedding Wall

Thu, 05 May 2011 09:57:20 +0000

Painter, graffiti artist and book author Caleb Neelon from the US just finished the first mural artwork for the “Wedding Walls” project in Berlin! Next are Nomad, M-City, Victor Ash, SWag and MTO!

Irgh - Crazy Abandoned Murals

Wed, 04 May 2011 11:00:31 +0000

Showing fantastic interwoven extremities, the colorful murals by Berlin-based urban artist Irgh are fantastic and can be found mainly in abandoned areas!

Graffiti Toilets

Mon, 02 May 2011 13:11:05 +0000

Commissioned indoor graffiti is a story of its own, but those toilet graffiti by Deck2 are a nice example for what could happen if graffiti would be wider excepted...

Herakut in Yekaterinburg

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:08:14 +0000

Famous German urban art duo Herakut recently hit the streets of the Russian city of Yekaterinburg and created a new, nice mural artwork in a children protectory...

Murals, Paste-Ups, Art Shows & Boneyards

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:34:26 +0000

It’s Spring time now and a lot of Europe-based urban artists are going to awake from a deep hibernation. For that reason I collected all the smaller urban art news from the last week...

Graffiti Show: MadC in London

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:40:43 +0000

This week, German graffiti artist MadC will start exhibiting at London’s most famous urban art gallery! Pure Evil Gallery presents canvases and sketches by the best known female graffiti artist...

Wedding Walls - New Murals for Berlin

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:21:01 +0000

“Wedding Walls” is an upcoming urban art project which presents six famous urban artists including for example Nomad, Victor Ash and M-City, repainting huge old walls in Berlin! More info...

Exhibitions, Urban Interior, Murals & Hipster Traps

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:05:01 +0000

Nothing happened here during the last couple of days, for what reason I had the idea to give you a small overview about the latest, worldwide street art and graffiti news...

Comic Crash Graffiti Wall

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:22:12 +0000

Graffiti artist Pantonio recently created a funny intervention mural art, when he transformed a concrete wall into a part of a comic strip after a car crashed into the wall! Thumbs up!

Detroit - Decayed Buildings & DIY Paradise

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:16:30 +0000

Detroit is well-known around the globe for its abandoned areas and the decayed old buildings. Now, Johnny Knoxville explores the new creative generation which uses those places to create something new!

Urban Exploring: Ruins of Detroit

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:18:16 +0000

Abandoned places have special, indescribable atmosphere. The two French photographers and urban explorers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre tried to document it in their series “The Ruins of Detroit”!

The Wall Project London - Open Call!

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:25:43 +0000

Join the “The Wall Project” competition, convince Remi/Rough and design your own interior wall at the Rich Mix event space in London’s creative area Shoreditch. More info here...

Explosion Wall Art by Vhils

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:25:13 +0000

Vhils recently did a fantastic and energetic urban destruction performance to visualize the music by Portuguese band Orelha Negra. The result is awesome and a must to see for fans of rough urban art!

Aryz Wall Painting

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:45:12 +0000

Aryz is probably one of the most famous Spanish urban artists. The Barcelona-based artist is well-known in Europe for a brilliant style and his amazing wall paintings. Watch him in action...

Murals: Roa in Mexico

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:12:04 +0000

In the last weeks, famous urban artist Roa lew over the sea for a painting trip in Mexico! The result is that there are a lot of new animal murals and collaboration works in the streets...

Graffiti Without Caps - Smash137 & Risk

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:45:38 +0000

The internationally well-known graffiti artists Smash137 and Risk just created an amazing piece near Miami Beach and used no caps for the background and the fillings...brilliant!

Concrete Wall Mural by GR170

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:10:49 +0000

The second part of the “Concrete Walls” project is online. After Aryz, the Spanish urban artist GR170 shows his talent by creating a massive abandoned mural artwork...

Blu’s Mural Art DVD

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:21:29 +0000

Internationally well-known urban artist and mural painter Blu recently published his first DVD, containing a collection of animated videos and documentaries made during the last 10 years...

iPad Busting, Laser Murals, Russian Art Anarchists & Ivy Tags

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:08:25 +0000

A lot happened on the streets around the world during the past few Christmas days. Because I had no time to write, I did this small collection of interesting urban art news...

Urban Art Censorship

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:04:26 +0000

I still can’t believe that a Museum of Contemporary Art censors a political urban artwork by one of the most well-known mural artists worldwide. That’s why I want to talk with you about censorship...

Huge Graffiti Wall: MadC Did It

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:41:41 +0000

MadC, probably the most famous female writer worldwide recently finished her massive graffiti wall project. In the last months she painted a giant 639m² wall. The result is impressing...

Urban Lines: Art of Popof

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:10:49 +0000

I didn’t knew him before, but Paris-based urban artist Popof recently uploaded another video, documenting his brilliant abstract paintings in the urban environment. A must to see...

London Graffiti: Titi Freak in Action

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:34:07 +0000

In October 2010, I had the luck to watch São Paulo-born graffiti artist Titi Freak spray-painting a brick wall in London. Of course I took some photos of him in action...

Concrete Wall Graffiti by Aryz

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:33:32 +0000

Spanish graffiti artist Aryz is one of my favourite discoveries this year. I love his characters, with their slack, casual and colorful styles. Today I found that brilliant video showing him painting...

Herakut Live in London, Photos

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:13:26 +0000

The famous urban art duo Herakut painted live at London’s Village Underground last month. I caught up with them and documented the artwork in progress. Take a look at my photos!

Eye Candy #14: Porcelain Spray-Can, Toilet Graffiti & Paint-Roller Skateboards

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:51:20 +0000

For all those who eventually missed some interesting things: The fourteenth edition of urban art eye candy includes again interesting street art link-tips and some nice urban art photos! Take a look...

New Boxi Stencils in London

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:44:30 +0000

Famous stencil artist Boxi created a new amazing greyscale street artwork in London! He hit the streets in the last two days a did again a great job...

Ben Eine - Moniker Art Fair

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:35:29 +0000

“Calculate” is the new graffiti mural by Ben Eine in London. He and his crew needed two days to spray-paint that big wall in Shoreditch - the entire progress was documented by a film crew...

Ben Eine in Action - Graffiti Photography

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:51:07 +0000

I met famous British graffiti artist Ben Eine during the preparations for the Moniker Art Fair in Shoreditch, London and took some photos of him while spray-painting new bold letters on a wall...

Graffiti Master Thesis

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:32:40 +0000

Have you ever read a scientific paper about graffiti or other urban art subcultures? Dutch student Silvia Pietrosanti wrote “A journey with the graffiti writers of European walls” as her master thesis...

Geometrical Graffiti: Graphic Surgery

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:24:20 +0000

The Dutch urban art duo Graphic Surgery was really busy in the last months and created several interesting, abstract, city-influenced graffiti in abandoned areas by using tape and spray-paint.

Graffiti in Barcelona: Da Mental Vaporz

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:11:33 +0000

The Da Mental Vaporz graffiti crew recently hit Barcelona! Dran, Bom-K and Sowat created a master mural graffiti piece including a lot of great calligraphy and some fantastic characters...

Amazing Mural Art: Jazz Time

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:32:54 +0000

Have you already seen that amazing mural artwork Chazme, Lump, Sainer & Sepe created in Poland? Four brilliant characters playing jazz - it’s really wicked! Take a look and be impressed...

Urban Art: Nuart City Walk

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:51:58 +0000

First impressions from the first Nuart city walk, showing a big crowd its new town’s landmarks and providing background-info about the artworks by famous urban artists, brilliant!

Biggest Marker Worldwide?!

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:02:39 +0000

It’s huge and maybe the dream of every tagger: The biggest marker worldwide! Created by the Melbourne-based street art collective Everfresh, the oversized marker overshadows everything else...

Blu: New Murals in Europe

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:17:35 +0000

Because famous mural artist Blu was quite busy in the last weeks, I decided to create a small collection of his latest urban artworks in Europe. Make sure you didn’t missed one of his amazing wall-paintings!

Murals: Practiques, Murals, Contemporanies

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:38:22 +0000

For me, these huge mural artworks in the urban space are always impressing. Recently I found a new book which documents the work of some well-known mural artists...

Sex Art, Murals, 3D Installations & Interviews

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:00:57 +0000

A lot of new street art and graffiti things happened out there in the world in the last days. For that reason it’s time again for some new Urban Art Eye Candy link-tips...

Commercial Urban Art, Evol’s Studio & Zombie Walk

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:18:44 +0000

This is the tenth edition of my Urban Art Eye Candy news collection. This time I collected some great new mural artworks, stencil spray-paintings and other impressing artworks from all over the world...

New Wall-Painted Animation by Blu!

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:21:56 +0000

Maybe he is the most famous mural artist around the world, maybe he’s not. Nevertheless, Blu created another outstanding wall-painted animation. Watch it now!

Tape Art: BUFFdiss in Action

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:20:57 +0000

Last weekend, I was on the run with famous tape artist BUFFdiss, who is in Berlin in these days! While he created some very nice new tape artworks, I took some photos...

Mode2 Live Painting Photos

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:42:39 +0000

Yesterday, one of Europe’s most famous graffiti artists Mode2 painted live a fantastic rough mural artwork in Berlin. I was around and took some nice photos of the paint, brushes and characters...

Favela Painting, Team Robbo & Modern Buff Chemicals

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:31:07 +0000

To put you in the right mood for the nice weather and the weekend, I collected some interesting urban art news from around the world...

Tape Web, Billboard Art & Alphabet Street

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:59:25 +0000

This is the last urban art eye candy edition before the FIFA football world cup will start. Just relax and take look at new urban artworks by great artists, street art news and graffiti info...

Sam3 Mural Art Time-lapse

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:02:37 +0000

Spanish street artist Sam3 recently released his new time-lapse video, showing the development process of one of his most recent mural artworks in Lisbon...

Princess Hijab, Urban Bowling & Subway Exhibition

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:07:23 +0000

The fifth part of my urban art eye candy series gives you some interesting reading tips about latest street art events, exhibitions and artists. Also some nice impressions aren’t missing...

Abandoned Place: Teufelsberg Berlin

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:13:04 +0000

PictureReport did it again! The filmmakers crew filmed another well-known abandoned place in Berlin, the NSA station at the Teufelsberg. A great video with fantastic impressions, a must to see!

Mural Art: Madrid is Blu!

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:21:02 +0000

A huge wall, a lot of paint, some paint roller and a creative idea - That’s what urban artist Blu needs to create those great mural artworks like he recently did in Madrid!

Mural Art: Sten & Lex Big in Europe

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:45:46 +0000

The Italian street art duo Sten & Lex seems to be on a mural art tour though Europe. Some weeks ago they created a huge mural poster artwork in Rome, recently they beautified Lyon...

Huge Mural Art in Antwerp!

Mon, 31 May 2010 13:15:57 +0000

Brussels-based urban artist Steve Locatelli recently created a huge mural artwork in Antwerp and continues in this way the trend of creating large-scale paintings on gray facades...

Mural Art: Blu, Sam3 & Os Gêmeos in Lisbon

Wed, 26 May 2010 12:23:26 +0000

Famous urban artists and mural art painter Os Gêmeos, Blu and Sam3 recently started to paint the facade of two abandoned houses in Lisbon! Here are some first impressions...

Baroque Street Art, QR Codes & Urban Art Hot Seats

Thu, 20 May 2010 17:11:48 +0000

This is the next edition of Urban Artcore’s urban art eye candy series! In addition to very interesting street art and graffiti news, there are some nice impressions from the Urban Artcore Flickr-group...

Abandoned Places in Berlin

Tue, 04 May 2010 20:46:46 +0000

There are a lot of old and abandoned factories and other industrial buildings in Berlin. Now, some filmmakers started to document their lonely beauty...

Mural Art: Breaking the Wall in Wroclaw

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:33:56 +0000

Some days ago, the “Out of Something - Breakin’ The Wall” festival started in Wroclaw. Urban art photographer Just documented the ongoing creative process...

Graffiti Festival: Art Brut in Barcelona

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:30:36 +0000

Last weekend, the “Art Brut” graffiti festival took place in the beautiful city of Barcelona. Twenty artists, including Boris Hoppek and Aryz, sprayed six walls...

Turmkunst: News from the Art Monument?

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:30:51 +0000

Yesterday I took some new shots of the “Art Monument”’s tower - Flying Förtress was still spray-painting the new grounded facade of the “Bierpinsel”...

Art Monument Berlin - First Impressions

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:09:09 +0000

Today, the urban art mega-event “Art Monument 2010” started in Berlin! I was there, watched Flying Förtress painting the tower and took some shots...

Art Monument Berlin Cancelled

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:08:40 +0000

It would have been the urban art event of the year. The “Art Monument” (Turmkunst) should start today, but unfortunately a court decided to stop the plan to repaint the “Bierpinsel” tower...

Visual Facade Projection - Quadrature

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:52:02 +0000

It’s a greate mixture of architecture as well as audio and visual techniques, which shows how to transform, create, expand, amplify and interpret spaces by using large scale video projections...

Urbanism: Living Walls in Atlanta?

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:23:53 +0000

This August, an interesting conference will take place in Atlanta: “Living Walls, The City Speaks”! Therefore they are calling for street artists to submit posters...

New Mural Art: WK Interact in New York

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:28:07 +0000

Did you see the great Dwyane Wade mural artwork by famous street artist WK Interact in New York? There is also a nice video, which gives some interesting insights into his work...

New York Typography

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:47:03 +0000

Today I spotted a relative new and especially nice photoblog about typography in New York! There are some really interesting shots over there...

Graffiti Sketches: MadC’s 700 Wall

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:07:35 +0000

As I told you, famous graffiti writer MadC will spray paint a giant 639m² wall! To do so, she needs a lot of sketches and ideas. Here are some of them...

Urban Art Mega-Event: Art Monument Berlin

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:31:05 +0000

Recently some new info about the upcoming urban art event Art Monument 2010 were published! In addition to the outdoor graffiti action, an exhibition will take place inside the tower...

Urban Fine Art: MaClaim in Berlin

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:55:20 +0000

The urban art collective Maclaim is well-known for their photo-realistic graffitiies and mural artworks. After they painted a nice wall in Berlin, they recently hit the streets of London...

Tape Artists against Winter!

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:56:18 +0000

Winter is not really the best season for doing some tape art. For that reason I’m searching for other tape artists around the world, who will fight with me against the cold and wet weather...

Urban Calligraphy: Next Level Tagging

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:44 +0000

One of my favorite urban-inspired artists is José Parlá from New York. He is famous for his simulated dirty walls and a incomparable urban calligraphy style...

Art Monument: Will they dare?

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:16:16 +0000

This April, four famous urban artists will be redesign the “Bierpinsel” tower in Berlin. This event, the “Art Monument 2010”, shall be one of the top urban art events this year...

Major Graffiti Project: MadC’s 700 Wall

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:37:28 +0000

This year, graffiti artist MadC goes big! For the next twelve month, she will spray-paint a gigantic 639m² wall, called the “700 Wall - Stylemachine”...

Great Interactive Building Projection

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:20:00 +0000

The creative interaction collective YesYesNo did a great job in Auckland City, when they created their interactive building projection there. Here is the video...

Art Monument 2010 - Most Spectacular Urban Art Event?

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:57:46 +0000

“Art Monument 2010” is a spectacular urban art event, which will take place in Berlin this spring. Sozyone, Flying Förtress, Honet and Craig KR Costello will repaint the facade of an old tower...

Iemza - Abandoned Paintings

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:32:22 +0000

French urban artist Iemza is internationally well-known for his amazing paintings, he creates at abandoned places like old factory sites. Here’s a small special about him...

Facadeprinter - Urban Print Media

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:39:28 +0000

The project Facadeprinter is about inventing a new urban print media. Developed by two German students, the facadeprinter makes it possible to large-scale print walls...

Church Mural Art - Augustine Kofie

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:40:55 +0000

American urban artist Augustine Kofie is well-known for his abstract murals he did in the past. Recently he published some interesting time lapse videos of his artworks...

Time-lapse Graffiti Mural

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:16:53 +0000

Recently I watched this amazing time-lapse graffiti mural art video and was impressed. If you like great art videos too, it’s a must for you to watch this one...

Berlin Wall - Tear Down Tape Art

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:37:48 +0000

In the last days, Berlin-based street artist El Bocho and a CNN TV team moved through the streets of Berlin and created unique tape art installations around the Berlin Wall...

Sam3 Book - Sombras

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:28:12 +0000

“Sombras”, the new book by Spanish street artist Sam3 is out now! It includes outdoor mural artworks by Sam3 as well as a selection of sketches...

Dolk & Pøbel - Living Decay

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:35:35 +0000

In the summer of 2008 Dolk and Pøbel, two talented Norwegian street artists, created large-scale mural artworks on the faces of abandoned houses in Norway. This is the documentation...

Audiovisual Facade Projection

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:42:53 +0000

Light art and facade projections are in vogue this year. This one is another great example of what artists can do with modern technologies in an urban context...

Mural Art 2 Review

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:58:13 +0000

Mural Art Vol.2 is the second edition of the well-known and popular muralists collection by Kiriakos Iosifides. The new urban art book will be published this November - I have some insights...

Dreamyourtopia - Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:03:04 +0000

Twelve famous urban artist will create their “Dreamyourtopia Checkpoint” in Berlin to “protect your Dreams and make sure that you dream the right Dream”.

Berlin East Side Gallery

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:12:32 +0000

The Berlin East Side Gallery is being restored and repainted. This video clip documents the work with some beautiful pictures from around The Wall...

Victor Ash - New Mural Art

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:25:18 +0000

Victor Ash did it again! Today his third mural artwork in Berlin was opened for the public. I was there and took some photos of that new political statement...

Modart - Wallbreakers Mag

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:12:04 +0000

The latest Mini Modart about Wallbreakers festival is out! Wallbreakers is an unique contemporary urban art exhibition conceived to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall...

Write the Wall - 20 Years Breakdown

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:24:37 +0000

20 years after the fall of the berlin wall everybody is talking about the breakdown. The art installation “Write the Wall” is constructing a temporary memorial and artistic canvas for visual and lively remembrance.