Gestalten Publishing presents Mark Jenkins sculptures in Berlin: Gestalten is proud to present the first solo show in Germany by the renowned American artist Mark Jenkins, who uses ordinary packing tape to create life-size human or animal forms. Jenkins is best known for his clever installations of these startlingly lifelike tape sculptures in urban and natural spaces as well as indoor environments such as cafeterias, toilets, and art galleries. This expert staging of his work, especially his clothed human figures, provokes various—often strong—reactions from passersby and expands his interventions into powerful performances. ...

Today is the international blackout day against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act), two bills which currently are on their way through the legislative process in the USA and whose aim is to censor our beloved internet - the majority of you already know that. Like Wikimedia, Google, Wordpress and other internet-affine companies and foundations, also Urbanartcore wants to set at least a small sign of solidarity with all those who are protesting against these content mafia bills, infringing free expression while harming the Internet. We are going to replace the logo with a pixelated version and ask you to join the protests, because these US bills will definitely affect the entire interweb! The reason: ...

After he painted in nearly every European metropolis (check out the Blu murals in Europe) in 2011, Italian street artist Blu is on a trip through South America right now, painting one mural after another… Argentina’s Blu Murals Especially the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires seems to be one of his favorite target: After he painted that impressive mural of obediently leader following Argentinian folks back in November 2011 and the funny BBQ mural and the Blu Planet painting in December, the Italian mural king came up with a new money river mural just a few days ago! ...

Living room art adds warmth - you can read that in every interior design mag. For that reason and because some people will probably call it the most brilliant invention since there are travelling artists, I’m pretty sure you will like Danny Doom’s Living Room Tour 2012: Urban Living Room Art After couchsurfing half of his live while traveling with his art, for this doomed last year 2012 Berlin-based urban artist Danny Doom decided to travel the world, using your flats, condos, apartments, houses – the rooms you live in – as a shelter while creating unique urban-inspired artworks for you! ...

For over a decade, the legendary Toasters crew hits cities around the globe, spreading their famous icon (a toaster of course) far and wide! A year ago the first trailer for their own documentary saw the light of day and now time almost has come… The Toasters Worldwide The Toasters, that are three Wolverhampton natives with contacts all over the world (and especially to Italian Ultras), who were into street art already at the early beginning, when street art had not been pigeonholed as street art and lots of its today’s protagonists had been neither that famous. I’m not quite sure why they’ve chosen a toaster as their logo, but what I know is that they used it to establish their own brand very well! ...

Japanese skateboard sculptor Haroshi, who became infatuated with skateboarding in his early teens, creates impressive art by recycling old, broken skateboards and is still a passionate skater. I just stumbled upon some flicks from his latest exhibition in Los Angeles, which includes in addition to other skateboard sculptures, an amazing fuckfinger made of skateboards which is really killing it! Skateboard Sculpture Art In my eyes, being able to create those skateboard sculptures requires lots of technical skills as well as the right machines as it is mentioned on Haroshi’s website: ...

Fortunately, Jeff Soto has a friend in Paris, who is urban explorer and urban art enthusiast. Otherwise the US-based artist would never have had the chance to create those nice chalk drawing in an exhaust vent above the Metro line underneath Paris! Chalk Underground Drawings Jeff is not the first urban artist who went exploring the almost hidden ways under the French capital: Not long ago, a team including C215, Futura 2000, Conor Harrington, How & Nosm, Saber, and SheOne explored and repainted the Parisian tunnel system (one of the most spectacular throughout Europe!), creating Underbelly Project Paris. ...

Some months ago, one of the world’s leading artists, TED Prize winner JR came up with the incredible JR Inside Out project, a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Inside Out in Haiti Together with Eyes on Haiti, the global art projectInside Out recently rose souls in the Caribbean country of Haiti! It looks like there are lots of talented photographers around the world, identifying with the JR Inside Out philosophy and for that reason join the challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world, what a great success! ...

A few months ago, Terence Pratt shot a nice time laps video of a Herkaut mural creation progress! Germany’s most famous urban art duo spent some weeks in Los Angeles, creating some amazing wall paintings presented by the Do Art Foundation! Herakut Mural Art Although I photographed Hera and Akut a few times now (e.g. in London and Berlin), it’s great to the the both creating those amazing murals! Furthermore I hope they will go on traveling the world as they did in 2011 - I’d like to see more Herakut mural art around the globe! ...

Urban Exploration Photography is the title of a nice lecture by Neil Ta and a great resource for UrbEx enthusiasts, exploring greenhorns and urban photography beginners! Urban Exploration, Best-Practices The free eBook from 2011, which is written by one of the top urban exploration photographers, gives not just some fantastic insights into this popular leisure-time activity by including dope photos of decaying and neglected buildings, rooftops and more, but also discusses interesting aspects like how and why people are willing to risk their lives by climbing through abandoned areas or why Urbex has a political dimension. ...