Some days ago, twenty street and graffiti artists from Barcelona, including Boris Hoppek, Aryz and Ripo, painted six walls. This graffiti festival was called Art Brut and should give a tribute to the Barcelona-based graffiti scene. On March 27, 2010, twenty of Barcelona’s best street artists came together to paint six large murals to pay tribute to the quality, distinction and diversity of the Barcelona Scene. (artbrutbcn.org) Looks fantastic what they had created! Here are some impressions from their gallery: ...

Some weeks ago, I presented the “Calligraffiti” book by Niels Shoe Meulman to you and described it as a very interesting art book because it contains a lot of amazing and very exactly and detailed artworks. Some days ago, Shoe agree to give my an short interview and I tried to get as much as info about his personal background as well as about the ideas behind Calligraffiti. I hope you’ll like it… ...

The producers of the “Beautiful Losers” DIY documentary recently published their graffiti documentary series, which is part of the street art, skateboard and punk documentary, “DIY America”… Roots and Drive - Graffiti Part One: In the first part the well-known graffiti artists Craig Stecyk, KR, Todd James, Sleezer, Epso and Earsnot talk about the history and spread of graffiti, as well as what motivates them to create graffiti. Legal vs. Illegal - Graffiti Part Two: The second part is about the dangerousness of Graffiti action. Graffiti artists Sace, Abhor, Amaze, Deadcat, Sleezer and Earsnot talk about legal versus illegal graffiti. ...

A short while ago, Spanish street artist El Tono did another smart urban art experiment, which brings the street into the gallery! The guy, who is famous worldwide for his abstract street paintings, installed whitewashed glass panels in the city of Coruña. The idea behind was, that people who past by that white wall, should scratch into its surface and create in this way a unique street artwork. And his plan worked! ...

Two days ago, I was invited to visit the opening of the “Source/ Resource” group-exhibition at Wilde Gallery in Berlin. In addition to some works by contemporary artists like Antonio Santin and Awst&Walther they show new artworks by two of my favorite stencil artists, Evol and Pisa73! As always when I take a look at their very detailed and amazing artwork, I was really flashed, but also the artworks by Mirko Mielke, who presented a photo on concrete and a photo on a found wall, were very inspiring! ...

Do you have already heard something about “Graffomat”? When I read about it the first time, I thought “What a great holy shit!?” and shaked my head, because I could not believe in its authenticity… …“Graffomat” is the name of maybe the first graffiti vending machines which will be entering the market soon: ...

Yesterday I visited the new group show at Superplan Gallery in Berlin-Friedrichshain. 22 artists from seven countries (No, sorry there are only artworks by 21 artists, one work is still in London, because of the ban on flying caused by that ash cloud from Island…) present their interpretation of the exhibition’s motto “Keep Smiling, Loser!”. It was a nice evening. Once again I was impressed by Pisa73’s stencil art skills and Pabo’s and Base23’s great visual style, but also the artworks of the other participating artists, including BastiBasti, Devoner, Dust, Geso, Grapheart, Ink-A-Zoid and others, were really interesting. Additionally it’s the first exhibition of N8 Van Dyke in Germany… ...

Yes, it’s a commercial work, but nevertheless it’s really amazing! The Berlin-based street art crew Mentalgassi did a nice job at the Alexanderplatz in the heart of Berlin. They created so-called “Flip-Images”, large-scale image-installations which make it possible for the public to see different images from different perspectives. Mentalgassi are well-known for their oversized paste-ups, showing expressive, crazy faces of their friends. In the past, they also experimented with concrete, stickers and X-films, self-sticking color transparencies, for the ticket validators on the Berlin subway-stations. ...

For right now seven days, the art show by famous urban painters Gate and Lake is running at Café Nest in Berlin-Kreuzberg… The two artists from Berlin show urban art pictures and canvases. Gate is known for flat letters and forms, Lake for large-scale figures in the mosaic style. (press release) Two days ago I visited the great show room where artworks by Pisa73 and Czarnobyl as well as 1% Streetfiles were already shown. ...

Today I waked up and the first I thought was: “Urban Art Eye Candy”! The reason for that flash of inspiration was that I thought long and hard for a new striking title for the “Urban Top Shots” category. For those of you who are new to Urban Artcore, in “Urban Top Shots” I present some of the best photographies of street art, graffiti, architecture and other urban impressions. The groundwork for my decisions is the Urbanartcore Flickr-group with its 440 members and about 6,100 photos from all over the world (Effective April 14th). ...