I already posted some impressions of the Faile and Bast collaboration exhibition by Ian Cox at Lazarides Gallery. Today I have some moving pictures from the show for you! Babelgum visited the making of “Deluxx Fluxx Arcade 2010” and filmed Faile and Bast while their preparations. The huge count of posters pasted on the walls combined with black light and luminous colors looks phenomenal and also the special designed game machines are really phantastic! Please, give me one of those arcade games… ...

After I watched Banksy’s “Exit Through The Gift Shop” yesterday, I have a split opinion about Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash. Brainwash made millions of dollars with copying great street artists’ artworks, and I don’t know whether I should think that he’s a mean cheater or only a clever baddie?! The onliest thing I know is, that the people who call themselves “Mr. Brainwash Fans” are really brainwashed: *Hundreds of people lined up in the cold on Sunday to attend the grand opening of Mr. Brainwash’s “Icons” exhibit in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Astonishingly, most of the diverse mix of hoodrats, art fags, and the cluelessly curious were ardent fans. ...

Some weeks ago, I wrote an article about urban artist Rero and his abandoned messages. Yesterday I received an e-mail by Rero with nice photos of new artworks attached, which I will show you today! “It was too cold in Berlin to paste up and making stencils as well … so I come back to Paris and the following result… Some fresh abandonned messages about Image Negation featuring Ludo!” (Rero) “Image Negation” is Rero’s recent street art project. It’s minimalist typography with deletion, serving a lot of joke and understanding. I like this abandoned messages! ...

Today was my Banksy day - I watched his street art documentary “Exit Through The Gift Shop” at the Berlinale Film Festival! Right at the start a warning: Those of you who don’t want to know any info about the content of Banksy’s film should stop reading this article, the rest of you will now read my short “Exit Through The Gift Shop” review… First of all I have to say that the film is really great - I love it. It isn’t one of these street art documentaries you already know, it’s something bigger! “Exit Through The Gift Shop” tells the story of Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash and how his “Life is beautiful” art show overtrumped Banksy’s legendary “Barely legal” urban art exhibition and shows how stupid the international art market works. ...

The flagship-gallery for street art in Berlin is the ATM Gallery by my friend Marc Scherer. Although or even because of it’s only a small exhibition-room, the gallery shows continuously the local and international creme de la creme of urban art and culture. At the end of this month, ATM will travel with a lot of great stencil artworks, photographs and paintings by Just, Emess, Eliot, Artiste Ouvrier, Dave the Chimp, Leon Raid and Prost to Vienna for the “Rock me ATM!” exhibition at Inoperable. ...

One of the top urban art photographers Ian Cox published some photos of the “Deluxx Fluxx Arcade 2010” exhibition by Faile and Bast at Lazarides Gallery Greek Street. “The two floors of Lazarides Greek Street will be taken over for a truly experiential exhibition. Faile and Bast’s signature elements will resound throughout the gallery, creating an explosive installation. You’ll be able to interact with the products of their artistic collaboration…” (press release) ...

Yesterday, I visited the Pisa73 and Czarnobyl stencil art exhibition in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Although the shown artworks were really nice, they unfortunately were the same I already know from the “Aerosol Fumes” stencil art group exhibition… Nevertheless I took some shots, because Pisa73 and Czarnobyl are two of the most famous Berlin-based stencil artist and their artworks are well-known in Europe and overseas. Most notably is the great location. It’s called the “Nest” and it’s above a little nice café. It’s the same interesting location were the Streetfiles urban art photo show took place in November 2009. ...

For some weeks, Australian urban and tape artist BUFFdiss is in Berlin. Some days ago, he published first shots of new, sticky tape artworks from the streets of Berlin… BUFFdiss is the or at least one of the forerunners of tape art. His large-scale hand-sketches are well-known not only in his hometown Melbourne, but also in the rest of the world. Always they are in direct interaction with their architectural, urban surroundings. ...

Today is the Down-Under day. Some hours ago I wrote that article about the Australian graffiti artist The Yok and now I will write a small post about the upcoming stencil art show by Ben Howe in Hamburg. Yes, you are right, Ben Howe is also an Australian urban artist… The upcoming show is called “Schism Overwrite” and will present his most current stencil artworks and I heard, that he will make some live action - maybe a live painting! ...

Australian graffiti artist The Yok recently updates his photostream on Flickr! Now there are some new shots of his new and very nice artworks. For years, The Yok has been active as urban artist and is one of the brains behind the Kingbrown Magazine, which captures the work of local and internationally acclaimed artists. His funky spray-paint characters, which I really like most, are not only infamous in Down-Under, but also around the globe. You have to like their freshness, charm and clean style. ...