“Sombras” is the name of the new mural art book by Spanish street artist Sam3! After he printed his own small book, called “Tirá me de la lengua”, at the beginning of this year, he decided to make a real hardcover book about his outdoor artworks. Sam3 is, like many other urban artists too, a globetrotter - his well-known mural artworks can be found all over the world. For this reason, “Sombras” shows not only his impressing works, but also the different locations and cities where he painted. ...

Next month, urban intervention artist Dan Witz will have his new solo-exhibition, called Dark Doings, at the Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art. The artworks which will be presented are small window-imitations, which show in a very realistic way people, who are imprisoned. Dan placed these mixed media installations on doors all over New York City in the last weeks. If you pass by one of his Dark Doings, you guess that the person is right behind the door! ...

There are a lot of restrictions against graffiti and other urban arts nowadays. For most artists it’s almost impossible to create a piece in European cities at daytime. The laws are too hard and the punishments excessive. For this reason, the artists have to paint under cover of darkness, what makes them looking even more criminal… [dailymotion xahglz nolink] The writers of Cellograff, especially the ODV crew, had an interesting idea to avoid the lawful restrictions! They strain cellophane between trees, street lights, pillars, and other useful things and paint it with their pieces. In fact at daytime! Without criminal damage, there’s no punishment. The police is apparently powerless! ...

Famous stencil artists M-City has a new, very interesting project! After creating the biggest stencil artwork worldwide some month ago, he started constructing and building the Fabryka. The M-City­ factory produces nothing, it serves no useful purpose, but it stirs the senses nevertheless, and its huge dimensions emphasize the transformations that contemporary culture is undergoing. This factory needs no workers. The engines that keep it going require little attention. The ghostly nature of the installation evokes a vague sense of danger and forecasts the end of physical work. ...

In 2008, the two talented Norwegian urban artists Dolk and Pøbel hit the fjords of Norway and painted abandoned houses! The pictures from back then went around the world. This project is ongoing with more works added this year! To set the mood for new huge mural artworks, the video documentation “Living Decay” was published. It’s a suggestive daily log, that narrates through 4 tales, the making of these huge paintings inside the unique northern landscape. ...

Graphic designer and graffiti writer Nico189 had a really great idea this year and developed the “Pantone Cans”. At first I have to say, that it’s one of his personal projects. There’s no affiliation between Pantone, Inc. and the “Pantone Cans” and the project not intended to be a commercial product. But it’s a great idea, ’cause it’s a syllogism that the worldwide standard for designers and printers will also become a standard for graffiti artists and writers. ...

Last Thursday, I started a small urban art photo contest, whereby you were able to win 3 limited urban art photo-postcards packs by Just. Each of the packages includes 4 postcards with grandiose urban art pictures from Berlin on it. Before I’ll show you the winning shots, I’ll say thank you to all the creative people who submitted their urban photos or joined the Urban Artcore Flickr-group! Keep it up! As last time, it was hard to decide to three best urban art photos, but in the end I had my favorite ones! Here are the three Winners of “Just’s Photo-Postcard Contest”: ...

I like the abstract character of the artworks by urban artists Nuria and El Tono! Both belong to the most famous street painters worldwide although or even because of their simple style with its great recognition value. El Tono and Nuria use tape and acrylic-paint for their artworks, which are at first view actually not more than colorful lines, but at the second or third view the spectator recognized the architectural influence. ...

My friend Martin from the online platform for contemporary urban art “LetterXIII” asked me to post some infos and photos about the urban art group-exhibition and advertising takeover “Nothing but…”, which took place in Berlin some days ago. About 20 different urban artists took over so called citylight-posters with their artworks between Mitte and Neukölln. Involved on this wonderful, temporary adbusting action were for example Evol, Bronco, Brad Downey, Filippo Minelli, Akim, Laurent Basset and many more! ...

Yesterday evening, the “Just taking Pictures” urban art photography exhibition by Just started at the ATM Gallery in Berlin. Those of you, who read my post regularly already knew that, because I wrote about this great opening some days ago. The Contest By the way, I give away some of the limited urban photo-postcards by Just. So join the contest and get yours! The Exhibition …started 7pm and was well-frequented already at the beginning. There were urban art newbies, art-interested people and photographers as well as street artists, including Dave the Chimp, curators like the well-known Adrian Nabi and even a camera-team! ...