Christmas Special | Yeah, again it’s time for the yearly urban art advent calendar by Art Bastard! The third year in a row the independent platform for urban contemporary art and culture asked artists, galleries and partners if they would like to support the advent calendar by giving something away for free… Feedback was great, so we gathered many great gifts. Small artworks, t-shirts, toys, books, shoes, prints and a lot more is in stock for you in the Christmas calender! Every day we open one door! We would like to sweeten your christmas season and thank you for your support and interest in Art Bastard! (Art Bastard) ...

…with no apparent intent - Yeah, that’s a great example of a successful artistic intervention in public space! Back in September, EPOS 257 created a nice urban installation in the city of Prague, fencing 50 square meters of public space. The whole thing withstood about 54 days not just because it was embedded in concrete, but also because the council had no idea how to handle the situation… In the current society, our living space is defined by legal norms and regulations, the same way as fences demark the choices of our free movement. ...

Graffiti Art Exhibition | The master of flying colors, Morten Andersen will open his first solo-show in Berlin in a few days! No, he’s not a former National Football League kicker, but a high skilled graffiti fine artist from Denmark. He started tagging back in 1989. Since then, his style was more and more influenced by abstract forms, hand styled line work, patterns and fantastic colors… “Since he was a kid - Mortens fascination in colours, forms and shapes and their influence on human feelings lead him to draw and paint. After years of beeing a graffiti artist, he began to work more and more on canvas. With his unseen unique style, Morten is one of these rarely seen artist who passed the evolutionary step from Graffiti to fine art with flying colours. With his work he truly belongs to the selected lists of artists like Futura2000, Boris Tellegen or José Parla. With his artworks Morten is composing the soundtrack of our time.” (intoxicated-demons.com) ...

Graffiti Documentary | All parts of the popular street art and graffiti documentary Bomb It 2 are online now! Now you are able to watch the street artists Klone, Inspire and Know Hope in Israel and Phibs from Everfresh and Twoone in Australia as well as Great, Bates, Victor Ash and HuskMitNavn in Copenhagen, Zero in Singapore, and many, many more! Just wanted to let you know that the final episodes of Bomb It 2, which has seen Jonathan Reiss and his crew travel to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and the beyond, exploring the local graffiti scenes and speaking to local artists will be going live today! (via e-mail) ...

Marker Fight | This week, the Paint Club Finals 2010 will take place in Halle, Germany so make sure to save the date! In the last months, Paint Club travelled a good deal through the hottest metropolises of Europe, but now it’s time to break and to determine who is going to be the international Paint Club champion in 2010. Therefore, all champions of each urban hotspot visited during the European Tour were invited to come to Halle… ...

Street Art Action | After these fantastic spider tags and QR code paste-ups, today is the third time I write about the Madrid-based street art collective La Pluma Eléctri*k… La Pluma Eléctri*k is an street art collective that was born in the bohemian neighbourhood of Lavapiés, Madrid, in the beginning of 2008. They define itself as a multidisciplinary mad Group whose leader is a cat followed by the FBI. (about La Pluma Eléctri*k) ...

Light Art | Already since 2007, the Bremen-based light art performance photography artists Jörg Miedza and Jan Wöllert are working together under the label of LAPP-Pro and I have to say that I unfortunately noticed them only a few days ago… Light art performance photography or short LAPP is, as LAPP-Pro defines, a “one-shot time bulb exposure photography, performed additionally with movement of light” and in that way similar to light graffiti, light drawing or light writing. ...

Fine Art Show | Since last Thursday, brilliant and very colorful artworks by artist and former biochemist Kelsey Brookes from San Diego can be seen at Circleculture Gallery in Berlin. Brookes, who is well-known for his raw and energized style presents his latest “Caped Creatures” works, showing half human, half animal creatures mixed with letters, abstract explosions and neon colors… The creatures become a framework from which the figures anatomy is experimented with. Parts of these chimeras are missing, exaggerated or abstracted beyond functional reality in an effort to relate to the viewer their intense character or predicaments. The loosening of the figure as well as the strong and unique interplay with abstract forms and text, increases the sense of awe and wonder found in Brookes’ signature style. (Circleculture Gallery) ...

Berlin’s urban art scene is about to get a vibrant new addition! After recent setbacks, like the disappointing closure of ATM Gallery, there’s finally some uplifting news for street art enthusiasts. At the end of this month, the French art association ARTAQ will host the inaugural Urban Arts Award Festival in Berlin, celebrating groundbreaking talent from around the globe. This prestigious event recognizes 19 exceptional artists chosen from over 320 submissions worldwide, with 4 receiving Special Jury Awards. Their work will be showcased in a traveling exhibition across five major European cities—Angers, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, and Lyon. Berlin’s iconic Stattbad Wedding, a former swimming pool turned creative hub, will be the festival’s central stage. ...

Street Art Show | Yes, “it’s sad but true - this is our last show”! This is the first sentence in the latest newsletter I received from Berlin’s most famous gallery for street art stuff… ATM Gallery will close its doors one day before Christmas. Yes, you’re right, that doesn’t mean that there will be no more street art in Berlin, but nevertheless a big meeting point for street art enthusiasts, urban artists, collectors, fans and documentarists will be absent and will leave a big hole in our hearts. ...