Famous propaganda artist Shepard Fairey recently visited one of my favorite European capitals and did something I didn’t suspected! After all this paste-up installations he left behind in almost every bigger city around the world, he yet again painted a massive mural in Copenhagen! Shepard Fairey and the Obey crew beautify walls in and around Copenhagen. This particular peace dove mural was their first effort and located on Jagtvej 69, 2200 Nørrebro for those in town. (Molotow) ...

stamp festival The Street Arts Melting Pot (or Stamp for short) is the name of the upcoming international festival for street arts in Hamburg! Scraping together about 2.000 artists and performers from all over the globe, Stamp will transform Hamburg’s city into a multi-cultural, creative melting pot this September… Street performances, illuminated carnival costume arts, two parades - during the day and at night, multiple street music and urban cabaret, spectacular street dance and the latest street art: International and local artists create an event which is unique in its kind in Germany and a meeting point for the international street arts scene - a new festival for Hamburg. (about Stamp) ...

As some of you already know, London’s famous Lazarides Gallery recently started showing works by well-known stencil artist Boxi! Utilising both the streets and gallery walls as his canvas, the artist is a master of the stencil turning away from their traditional anarchist use to challenge the norm through boldly heightened realistic figures. With fear and its manipulation as the underlying theme, his art channels a deeply disturbing voyeuristic experience for the viewer playing with spatial perception of the surrouding environment. (Lazarides) ...

It’s summer time and although we don’t have that much sun in Berlin right now, I beat about for some new sunglasses. What I found are those new Skateboard Shades by Eric Singer from Portland-based Shwood Eyewear… Crafted entirely in Shwood’s local woodshop, this one-of-a-kind pair of sunglasses was created out of curiosity, just to see what was possible. For his latest project, Eric met up with Keith Hufnagel and others to claim the streets of Los Angeles in pursuit of destroying some skateboard decks. The reason: He creates sunglasses made from broken skateboard decks! ...

Although I already introduced JR’s Inside Out project (did you know that 40 to 50 thousand people are already participating?!) to you, I don’t want to withhold the interview he recently did with Bilal Randeree from Arabian news channel Al Jazeera from you… JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. After winning the TED Prize, he started a new project, insideoutproject.net, that is apparently taking the world by storm. ...

One of my most favorite urban artists, the Spaniard Aryz, lately painted another huge wall - this time in the Italian city of Civitavecchia! I don’t think I have to say that much about that astonishing new mural artwork, its fantastic colors and size - just have a look and be impressed! - but it’s definitely worth to make some words about the artist! Originally born in California Aryz is now based in Barcelona and part of the fantastic MM Crew. Inspired by Os Gemeos, Sagüe, Roid, Dran, Popay, Mode2 and others he started painting large-scale characters being well-known around the globe! Nowadays, he numbers among the creme de la creme of urban artists in Europe… ...

To give you a short overview about what happened in the last month and to feature some great stories a second time, I thought it would be a nice idea to recap the five top stories (with the highest count of visitors) at the end of every month. Here are the five top stories of July 2011: ATO: New Banksy or Best Street Artist ever? Probably to beef about street art, a Russian art collective came up with a funny idea - they invented ATO, the new Banksy! A funny must to see… ...

Recreation or reinterpretation are as well as letters in graffiti integral components of street art, but it’s not usual to create an entire installation by just being inspired by a single painting… French street artists Žilda and Rö recently reinterpreted L’assassinat de Marat (The Assassination of Marat), a painting by Jean-Joseph Weerts, by creating a astonishing mixed-media installation somewhere in Rennes! Combining wooden objects, paste-ups and fog, the successful collaboration created a somehow scary atmosphere… ...

Last time I visited Czarnobyl’s studio in Kreuzberg, the Berlin-based street artist showed me some test and preparation works for a new series of stencil artworks. Finally he finished a few and uploaded some photos I just stumbled upon. The new series focuses on a great style-mix by combining rough backgrounds with multi-layered greyscale stencils, what makes the it transporting some heavy metal feelings, if know what I mean!? Czarnobyl is one of Berlin’s most famous stencil artists and describes his style as cyber-punk stencil art. I for one really like his new works, what do you think? ...

Ronzo’s Credit Crunch Monster, the unofficial mascot of London’s Great Eastern Street and a well-known eye-catcher next to Shoreditch High Street station, had recently to move to another spot! The monument, which was installed in 2009, can now be found on top of one of the UK’s most famous breweries, the old Truman Brewery, at Brick Lane! The time had come to put a face to the terrifying credit crunch menace. Please welcome Crunchy, the official mascot of the global financial meltdown. (Ronzo in 2009) ...