Famous British graffiti artist Ben Eine did it again and stenciled his well-known, brightly colored letter styles on a huge wall in London’s Covent Garden! This new mural is Ben’s try to stirring up a debate with Westminster Council about their zero tolerance policy on graffiti and street art… …two Prets, a Starbucks, a Gap and it’s fucking boring - who the fuck wants that?! (Ben Eine) Again it was Abbie Brandon who filmed him doing his best and talked to him about his work for Amnesty International, the show at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco, artists he likes and much more! ...

Redesign | Yes, now it’s done. As my Facebook-friends and Twitter-followers could already read, I was going to take Urbanartcore to the next level of evolution this weekend: To tighten the base of this independent street art and graffiti blog by building an attractive source for international news about urban art forms, artists and other urbanity-related stuff, I had to decide to switch the look and feel. I just got bored about the same view again and again with its more or less elaborated functionality, for what reason I changed from the formerly self-made design to this state-of-the-art design by the WPShower design team. ...

Art Show | A few weeks ago I met up with famous abstract graffiti artist Morten Andersen in his studio in Berlin for a small shooting. Back then he was preparing artworks for two different exhibitions. One was the collaboration show together with Base23 which already took place in Cologne. The other is his first solo-show in France which will open its doors this Friday at Galerie Itinerrance in Paris. morten andersen paris ...

Graffiti Photography | Alex Fakso is well-known around the world and with good reason part of my top urban art photographers list! Although his astonishing graffiti action photographs have already been featured in the nice “Heavy Metal” book, Fakso recently published a new book called “Fast or Die”! And although this is something like a successor “Fast or Die” focuses not just on the atmosphere of plain graffiti, but also on subways… ...

Urban Art News | It’s Mother’s Day and I hope you already pleased your mum with a small thing! To give you some nice lecture before the sun starts to burn us again, I collected some interesting street art and graffiti news from the last week which hasn’t been mentioned here yet. Have fun exploring all the great stuff… Minimalistic Geometric Images …are the result of the logo-modifying series “You Took My Name” by Dorothy! The artist removed the companies names out of their famous logos… ...

Graffiti Flags | US-American graffiti artist Saber got a massive popularity push back in 2009 when he created that brilliant graffiti flag video to support the US-American health care reforms by Barack Obama. Afterwards Jeffrey Deitch, the famous director of the controversial MoCA in Los Angeles, decided to support Saber as one of the most representational figures for today’s graffiti and street art movement. Featuring a level of sophisticated detail, including collaging, and the skill you would expect from one of the world’s greatest graffiti writers, these pieces represent an artist at the top of his game. (Arrested Motion) ...

Spray-can Production | You all know how it looks when paint sprays out of a nozzle and what talented people can create with that high pressure technique. But have you ever wondered how a spray-can gets produced? Spray-can producer Montana Cans came up with the idea (the concept is by Ruedi One!) to showcase some details of their entire spray-can production line, which gives us the possibility to get to know how the paint comes into the cans… ...

Mural Art | Caleb Neelon’s Wedding Wall… when I wrote this title I noticed that actually it’s a bit strange for a city to have a district called Wedding. I mean this post is not about fairytale weddings or golden weddings but about the first part of the “Wedding Walls” urban art project in Berlin, which commissioned - as I already mentioned - six internationally well-known urban artists to repaint huge walls in the north of Berlin! ...

Abandoned Murals | Berlin-based urban artist Irgh is one of the most active artists in Berlin’s abandoned environments, for what reason I decided to start to document his often colorful and crazy murals! As a member of the Wurstbande street art crew, Irgh has been part of Berlin’s street art scene for years and developed further his style from simple forms and styles to more and more complex, interwoven wall paintings showing crazy knots of extremities. Those can be found all over Berlin, mainly in abandoned, decayed areas like old factories and warehouses and will also be part of the Artbase Grabowsee urban art festival… ...

Indoor Graffiti | Although I prefer graffiti created without permission, often the results of commissioned artworks are just awesome, as a lot of skilled writers (like MadC!) showed in the last years! The latest dope stuff I stumbled upon are the fantastic graffiti toilets by Deck2. Somebody awarded him a contract to redesign some toilets (for gents and ladies) and, although I have a foible for all the drippy tagged toilets (which can be found all over the world), I have to say that he did a good job! I can imagine that after having some beer and gatecrashing into these graffiti toilets you are totally flashed for some moments… ...