Bosso Fataka, that is a group of four Berlin-based artists, being well-known in town for using cling wrap as adhesive to turn trash into sculptures in public spaces. Recently, the world’s largest international multimedia news agency Reuters did a nice video feature on them, entitled Berlin artists turn trash into sculpture… Their pieces remain no longer than a couple of weeks, until municipal workers remove them, leaving photographs on their Facebook page as the sole documentation of their activity. ...

MadC Layers Exhibition End of the week, famous female graffiti artist Claudia Walde, better known as MadC, is going to open her next solo-exhibition at 44309 Gallery in Dortmund, Germany! Entitled Layers, the show will present new works made using spray paint, transparent spray paint, ink, watercolour and acrylic paint… Her letters flow into each other and parts of one letter borrow parts of another. Everything is connected; one part can‘t be without the other. Thus, her work is a reflection of our modern life where everything and everyone is connected through the Internet, cell phones, social networks and the media. The graffiti community has long used all those channels to stay connected for decades. (MadC at 44309 Gallery) ...

When it comes to graffiti in Berlin, the 1UP crew reigns supreme. This prolific group from Kreuzberg has not only made their mark across the city with their daring rooftop rollers and train bombings, but they’ve also taken their art global. In addition to releasing their own documentary, “1UP Graffiti – One United Power”, showcasing their work in Berlin and around the world, the crew has also established a strong online presence with their dedicated YouTube channel, “1UP Graffiti TV.” ...

The Art and Pass project recently caught up with abstract urban artist Clemens Behr and let him talk about ome of his influences… Art and Pass is a collaborative artistic project formed by 18 artists of different nationalities, mixing emerging artists with established ones, as well as their diverse techniques and materials. The artists are challenged with an exercise that will make them explore and question the concepts of inspiration, appropriation and original creation. Inspired by the creative process of Mail Art, Art and Pass produces an artistic flow that travels geographically and conceptually. The creative process and the production work of each artist is captured on video, with the objective of sharing the with the public the reinterpretation that each piece undertakes. (about Art and Pass) ...

I love to have urban-inspired interior around me. That’s why you can not just find street signs and slot-machines already in my apartment, but that’s also why I would love to have this beautiful concrete chair made by Swiss architect and designer Stefan Zwicky! Zwicky, who took Le Corbusier’s LC2 armchair and transformed it into a monolithic piece of furniture which expresses the weight and cold nature of concrete (as was mentioned by designboom.com), created in that way a must to have for every fairfaced concrete enthusiast like me. ...

I feel certain, that some people will laugh at the colorful result of this bomb squad operation and others will shake their heads in disbelief because of this youngsters boldness. What I’m talking about is this video, showing some dudes leaving alone a bag at a bus-stop somewhere in Israel. What follows is probably a common procedure in a country where bomb attacks unfortunately are part of the daily routine: Of course people get terrified and call the police to verify the bomb-to-be. A bomb squad finally burst the bag full of spray-cans what then results in a massive paint explosion… ...

Famous graffiti artists Os Gemeos who recently opened their first US solo exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, are now part of a racism debate, started on Fox 25’s Facebook thread… Their previously painted, brilliant The Giant of Boston mural on the old ventilation building in Dewey Square has been reeling in racially-charged remarks from people who have viewed the public artwork, as Steve Annear documented for the Bostinno: ...

This Thursday, one of the UK’s original contemporary street art pioneers Keith Hopewell aka Part2ism is going to open his first solo exhibition since 2009! The New Horizons & Future Love Songs show, hosted by Red Gallery in London, will feature new abstract paintings as well as sculptural pieces and is definitely a must to see for every abstract graffiti enthusiast… A syncretist at heart and now a synaesthesiac in practice, Part2ism is a multi-talented creator, exploring where his interests and instincts lead him. Beyond all the isms’ that can be applied to his work over the past twenty eight years, whether of his own invention or culled from art history, Part2ism has always aligned himself with his own visions first. As an artist, he subsumes all categories and at the same time defies them. More importantly than these post-creation categories that can be applied to his body of work, the underlying and unifying threads in Part2ism’s history are DIY individualism, a revolutionary mentality and a consistent exploration of mind-challenging aesthetics. His timbre, his voice, his style is a constantly mutating, gene-splicing hybridism embodying rebellion and progression. ...

For two years now, I’m following the creative development of Italian street artist and yarn-bomber Moneyless and I have to say, I really love to the the progress his artwork’s evolution. Whereas the first artworks where simple plain geometrically yarn-patterns on walls, his latest works include more complex, three-dimensional rope structures wafting in the air as well as pretty nice geometrically murals and prints… For Fame Festival 2012, he recently brought together samples of all his skills. Documented by some videographers, Moneyless scratched, screen-printed, painted and stretched ropes in the small Italian city of Grottaglie! ...

After hitting California, China and Lisbon, destruction muralist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils (here our interview with him), just popped up on the Archipelago of the Azores for the currently running Walk & Talk festival… Recently, he and his team finished up a pretty impressing decayed church mural! This new piece entitled Abraço to ruin (Embrace the ruin) depicts a women retaining the ruin’s walls as if protecting a child. Looks just amazing to me - especially the view over the trees (see above) is killing it. Here are some more impressions, via Vhils’ Facebook: ...