Do you remember the Berlin Wall Freedom Park exhibition which was created for the 50th anniversary of the beginning of building the Berlin Wall in 1961? Recently the organizing Dudes Factory published a nice video documenting the creation process and including some nice statements by participating artists like Nunca, Anton Unai, Miss Van and McBess! The Freedom Park is a monument to the memory of the happiness that was brought through the fall of the berlin wall in November 1989, but should also represents a wake-up call about the problems of our times. ...

As I already mentioned, famous French graffiti crew Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) has been busy in the last days painting a new huge wall in the beautiful city of Brest where the urban art festival Crimes of Minds is running since March! Recently Blo, Sowat, Dran, Bom.k and the rest of DMV finished spray-painting their new mural and because French photographer Awouell was around, I’m able to present you some first photos of the final piece. ...

For some (like me) he is just a very popular street artist, for others he is a legend, worth to write down all the myths around him… In his book Banksy: Myths and Legends, Marc Leverton collected stories about Banksy himself. Compiled between 2009 and 2011, some of these stories have been told so many times they have become the stuff of legend, while others are more questionable and can best be described as myths. ...

After that marvellous 15th issue of UK’s VNA magazine, some weeks ago the next one was released including a large feature of French tile/ pixel artist Invader! Recently the VNA crew published a nice teaser documenting their meet and greet with the famous street artist, showing a neat insight into the interview which can be found entirely in the 16th VNA issue. I already got my copy for what reason I can promise, that it’s worth it! ...

In July 2011, a first-of-its-kind public art mural project called Visual Intervention took place in Rochester, NY bringing together local artists and a group of four artists from Cape Town, SA, including Faith47, DAL, Mak1 and FreddySam who shared their talents and painted several nice murals in hopes of inspiring the Rochester community… Finally, the corresponding documentary was published last week which I don’t want to deforce from you. It gives a nice insight into the entire project, and includes not just statements by the artists and organizers, but also explains the event’s reasons and how everything worked out in the end. ...

da mental vaporz mural After my friend Blo created this great new mural in Berlin, he directly went to Brest to catch up with Sowat, Dran, Bom.k and the rest of Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) crew! Together they recently started to paint this massive collaboration mural as a part of the French urban art event Crimes of Minds, which is already running for nearly half a year and brought together urban artists from all over Europe such as Morten Andersen</strong, FinDAC and Sly2, Best Ever and Ben Slow, and many more! ...

I’m glad to inform you, that my Urban Artists in Action #1 photo-series is participating in this year’s Art Takes Miami contest! I’m pretty sure some of you already got this info via Facebook and I know that a lot already helped out, but today I’d like to officially ask all of you again to support my photo-series by voting for me and my pics to make it possible to win the People’s Choice Award. ...

Today I have a nice hint for urban explorers or urbex enthusiasts who are fascinated by abandoned architecture: Matt Lambros is a photographer based in New York City, urban explorer and runs the After The Final Curtain blog, a photographic documentation of the effects of years of neglect and decay in some of America’s greatest theaters. What first sounds like a time-consuming obsession is just a great way of preserving and presenting forgotten and lost cultural symbols! ...

My friend, Berlin-based urban artist Clemens Behr recently updated his website and added some neat photos of his latest cardboard installations from Amiens, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Malmo and again - after these dope installations in New York and Barcelona - I’m highly impressed about what’s possible to create by simply using cardboard, tape, wood and paint… Behr has taken his work into the public sphere, building peculiar appendages in metro cars and erecting detailed miniature cities on street corners. (about Clemens Behr) ...

I’m pretty sure, some of the Berlin-based readers already heard about Artconnect Berlin, nevertheless I have to write some lines about this new networking platform for artists, because I like the idea behind… Artconnect Berlin is a free tool for Berliners and provides you the opportunity to have an online portfolio, tag yourself by your skills, and find or be found by other creative heads. Additionally you have the possibility to offer jobs, and post classifieds about material, studios and general questions about Berlin and it’s creative scene. All in all this sounds like a nice, new thing to check out, especially because the creative scene in Berlin changes every day. I already joined, so make sure to add me as a contact after you did the same! ...