“Sparkle and Fade” is the name of the new exhibition by internationally-known graffiti artist Peeta, which takes place at the Pretty Portal Gallery in Düsseldorf at the end of this week. It’s his first art show in Germany! For more than 16 years, the Italian urban artist perfects his outstanding and startling 3D-style with its organic and typographic elements. Since 2000, he’s a member of the famous New Yorker-based FX crew and works on different projects around the world. ...

Last week, I got the new issue of the “Hidden Champion”. It’s a free Japanese urban magazine, featuring hidden champions of many cultures. This time, well-known graffiti artist Craig “KR” Costello respectively one of his fire extinguishers is on the front page! In addition to great pictures of his artworks, there’s an interview with him. By the way, do you Remember that KR is in Hamburg next week! This issue also contains portfolios of the skateboarders Quim Cardona, Yoshiaki Toeda, Joey Pepper, Henry Panza, Ricky Oyola and Rob Welsh, an interview with BMX-pro Masato Nishino, and articles about some other interesting people. ...

Yes, i love his artworks! Yes, he is one of my idols and a great inspirational source. Yes, some of my tape artworks are mainly influenced by him. Yes, I talk about L’Atlas! French street artist L’Atlas is currently in New York for his “City Fragments” urban art exhibition. His internationally-known and outstanding artworks became a symbol of the modern mixture of playful typography and the accuracy of architectural presets. Whether with paint, tape or chalk, there are no borders for L’Atlas’ unique style. His signs, letters and compasses are highly recognizable and and there is no restriction on their sizes. ...

Between November 6th and 15th, the “Forum for Light in Art & Architecture - Glow” will take place in Eindhoven! This years subject is “Being public”, what refers to the idea of seeing public space as an open space without any access restrictions and as the space of open discourses and free shaping of collective opinions. “Due to the dedication of “CityDynamiek Eindhoven”, from November, 6th to 15th, 2009, the city center of Eindhoven turns again into a forum of interventions, installations, performances and events based on the phenomena of artificial light.” ...

One of the first posts, I wrote on this blog was the hint for the Superblast exhibition “The Shadow of the Future”, which opened on August 22nd at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin. Recently, the show was extended until November 7th. Superblast creates artwork themed around psychological archetypes, fictional mythologies and his personal utopia. ...

Craig “KR” Costello is in Hamburg next week! In cooperation with auto-manufacturer Mini, he will paint a brand new car which will be presented in the “Ersteliebebar” and at Vicious Gallery. KR, who grew up in New York, founded his own company for paint, markers, and other graffiti equipment, named KRink, several years ago. He’s is famous for his abstract and colorful fire extinguisher drip-pieces, which can be found around the globe. Now, he has brought fresh new artworks to Hamburg, which will be shown additionally to the painted car. ...

Whether Shepard Fairey, Ron English, The Mac or others, a lot of urban, street and contemporary artists were supportive of Barack Obama’s election campaign in 2008. This year, President Obama intends to reform the America health care. It’s one of the most fundamental things, modern presidents of the United State ever did. Until today, there’s no government health insurance company which covers all citizens. Obama wants to change this! It’s a step in the right direction. It brings back a piece of the principle of equality to the US-American society and makes health care more accessible. ...

Here’s the seventh issue of the three urban top shot from the Urban Artcore Flickr-group! Over 330 members with about 2000 photos of architecture, urban art, street art, graffiti or other street photography joined my group - thanks for taking part! The “Urban Top Shots” series features every week the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos! ...

Some days ago, I told you about the spectacular adbusting by urban artists in Berlin. About 20 different urban artists took over so called citylight-posters with their artworks and made in this way a wide street art group-exhibition in public-space, called Nothing but Quality Street. But how did they do that? In Berlin Mitte, Kreuzberg and Neukölln it’s almost impossible to do such a big action they did. Because of the high number of arson attacks by left-winged autonomists, there’s a very high police appearance. ...

What happens, when a nerd is simultaneous a talented graffiti artist? Right, he sprays so called pixel-graffities! Ano from Taiwan creates computer-game inspired spray-paints. The gaming-pixel-look of his artworks is apparently well-known worldwide. Only I have somehow never heard of it before. The interesting point of this style is, that it’s almost unique. Whether in Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Hamburg, Prag or Krakow, I haven’t seen a similar one ever. So maybe someone gets inspired by the following pictures from Ano’s photostream… ...