“The Wallbreakers festival is an unique contemporary urban art exhibition conceived to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and the massive impact this historical event has had on the urban art scene.” (Artwallbrakers.com) On their tour through Germany, the Wallbreakers took part in several creative mass events, such as the music festival “Rock am Ring” or the street art festival “Urban Affairs” in Berlin. In addition to the famed graffiti photographers Ruedi One and Nils Mueller, Modart features many more internationally well-known graffiti, street and urban artists, like Roa, El Bocho, Peter Fuss, Stefan Strumbel, Boxi and Smash137! ...

As I wrote some days ago, the city of the German small town Lueneburg gets redesigned and will be transformed into a public exhibition space for leading figures of the international urban art scene - The press release is out now: More than 35 internationally renowned street artists have been invited to the Leuphana urban art project, including Akim, Victor Ash, Ben Eine, Brad Downey, Boxi, Bronco, Dave the Chimp, D*face, DTAGNO, Faith47, Flying Förtress, Herakut, Loomit, DAIM, Moki, 1010, Mode2, Swoon, Tilt, Tryone, Zevs, 56K ans many more! ...

Yesterday, Hamburg based photographer and filmmaker Max Moos uploaded with his fantastic Hong Kong time lapse video clip the next part of his series of lime lapse city portraits! As in the city portraits of New York and Istanbul, this video impressed with interesting snapshots of the architecture, urban landscape and street life of the métropole! ...

Not until September, this year’s Nuart Festival will open its gates, but the line-up is already filled with internationally famed urban artists! Nuart Festival in Norway Held in Stavanger on the West Coast of Norway, the urban art festival expects a “Brooklyn, NY Special”, named “Nu York”, because the A-list of New York street artists have promised: Swoon, David Choe, Ben Wolf, Graffiti Research Lab, Brad Downey, Judith Supine, Leon Reid IV, Chris Stain, Logan Hicks Skewville and others will be part of Nuart 2009! ...

Some days ago, I told you to visit the recent exhibition by Berlin based street artist and graphic designer Superblast at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin. Today I had some time to go there and took some photos! Superblast’s art installation, named “The Shadow Of The Future”, is a room full of hand-painted artworks, which show several icons as well as symbols of world religions and cults. It is very interesting to see how he always gives his famous character other things in its hands… ...

Yesterday, famous street artist and illustrator Parra starts his first solo exhibition, named “I like the tee shirt but I will get the painting.”, in Berlin! Parra Solo Exhibition and Pop-Up Shop Parra grew up surrounded by colors, oil paint, wood, weird looking pictures and Rubenesque paintings in the heart of Amsterdam. His internationally known style is characterized by a minimal color palette, beautiful hand-drawn typography and esoteric character creations. ...

As I told you, I will feature the top three shots of the Urban Artcore Flickr group every week! I do that, because I think that there are many good, but mostly unknown photos on Flickr and so I have some interesting visual content, you’ll see new shots with urban character and the photographers and/ or artists will maybe become some fame. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too - Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos! ...

The global ReUse art project calls for art! It is an on-going urban, street, and domestic planning campaign endorsing urban perma-culture and renewal through artistic means. This year, ReUse will take place for the third time, this time the art exhibition will reuse an abandoned building in central Tel Aviv! Have a look at the photos from the past events with artworks by over 100 international and local artists: ReUse Project 1: Jerusalem 2007 and ReUse Project 2 - Tel Aviv 2008. ...

Do you know “Kubik”? It’s a mobile, luminous, open-air club, designed by the creative minds of Modulorbeat, a German architecture and Design group. It depends on a so called “Big Tanks” concept, what makes it possible to build a spatial, illuminated, temporary installation of large tanks, in which there are lights that can light up by the rhythm of the beat. Each tank can be controlled individually. ...

I like it when people play around with colorful paint in old, abandoned factories and industrial areas. But it is even more interesting, when those people cook up a short story a make a little video out of their paint-action. Color in Motion is a crazy series of stop motion video clips by Quintessenz Creation from Hannover, Germany. It’s flowing, dripping, dribbling - Take a look on how the paint makes its way! ...