Large-scale murals and wall paintings from around the world. International street art scene coverage, artist profiles, book documentation, and festival reports. The largest collection of global street art inspiration and visual storytelling.
Street art showcases the world’s finest murals and wall paintings. Explore international artists transforming cities into open-air galleries, from massive European murals to vibrant favela collaborations in São Paulo.
This collection features celebrated street artists, photography books documenting the scene, artist interviews, and festival coverage. Discover how contemporary muralists combine technical mastery with cultural storytelling, creating works that beautify public spaces while preserving community narratives and celebrating neighborhood identity through accessible, world-class public art.
Blek Le Rat Stencil Pioneer, Documentary
The Street Knowledge Agency, representers of author and content auteur King Adz, recently uploaded a half-hourly documentary about stencil art pioneer Blek Le Rat, whose 20 years old Madonna street artwork in Leipzig lately got preserved!
As Crackajack.de mentioned, it’s probably the video from the outsold Blek Le Rat - Original Stencil Pioneer DVD by Gestalten. If anyone knows whether this is true, I would be pleased about a short comment…
Street art has evolved and every major stencil artist today, most famously Banksy, have been influenced by Blek’s unique style. Bansky claims, “every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well, only twenty years earlier…”
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Mr. Brainwash Hype Machine in London
It looks like Mr. Brainwash’s hype machine just picked up pace in London with him and/ or his team installing some of his large-scale paste-ups in the city, showing e.g. The Beatles and The Queen…
Our friends at Hooked managed to get some first photos of Brainwash’s (aka Thierry Guetta) huge British themed paste-ups located in Holburn, and in addition share some more or less interesting rumors of a probably possible UK summer exhibition by Mr. Brainwash!
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Painting Favelas: Boa Mistura in Sao Paulo
Some weeks ago I informed you about the brilliant anamorphic mural paintings by Spanish Boa Mistura crew, now they published the corresponding video documentary!
Boa Mistura’s project Luz Nas Vielas has been carried out in Vila Brasilândia, São Paulo, during January 2012. The project is part of the Crossroads series: Boa Mistura’s participative urban art interventions to modify rundown communities using art as a tool for change and inspiration. Between the 4th and 16th of January BOA MISTURA had the opportunity to live in Brasilândia, hosted by the Gonçalves family, having this way direct contact with the community. After preliminary studies and analysis, the defined framework are the narrow and winding streets that connects the urban net, known as Vielas and Becos. The dialogue with residents and their active participation has been decisive for the Project. Beleza, Firmeza, Amor, Docura andOrgulho are the concepts chosen by the collective for the interventions.
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Street Artist JR: 1 Year Turning the World Inside Out
Almost a year ago, French photographer, street artist and TED Prize winner JR started his Inside Out project and since then, the large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic works went worldwide! Whether in Haiti, Brazil, Greece, Israel, or Mexico, people are participating and paste their faces in the streets of their cities. Now it was time to look back and summarize the first year of turning the world inside out…
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Concrete Art: Vhils in Lisbon
Wow, I’m totally flashed - Portuguese hero and artist of destruction Alexandre Farto aka Vhils just redesigned one of the oldest concrete blocks in Lisbon!
In Eixo Norte-Sul, a district in Portugal’s capital, Vhils added parts of a face onto the facade of an abandoned concrete tower. Right next to the motorway, it’s now attracting people’s attention…
For Vhils, who visited California and Shanghai before, it’s one of the first stops at home for a while. Hope to see some more new works of him in Europe in near future!
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Ox Billboard Takeover in Angers
I’m a big fan of French urban artist and adbuster Ox, who should definitely not be a stranger for you! Being busy for the last years, Ox created his billboard takeover artworks, adapting their environment in amusing way, all over the globe…
Recently he wrote from the nice French city of Angers, where he did his best for the Artaq urban art festival. Again I have to say, that his paintings, imitating for example certain bus and tram designs, really work out!
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German City Starts Preserving Street Art!
Should graffiti be preserved? In the case of Blek le Rat’s Madonna masterpiece in Leipzig, the city says yes and what begun back in the early 1990s as a true love story, has now become an original precedent!
Several years ago, Blek le Rat - who nowadays is regarded as a stencil art pioneer - spray-painted a Woman with Child on an apartment building in Leipzig. He dedicated the Madonna to Sybille, the woman he was in love with. Today, they are already married for 20 years and the stencil art piece is still there and it will stay there for at least the next decades!
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Wrinkles of the City: Dope JR & José Parla Murals in Havana
Two of my favorite urban artists, namely Mr 2011 TED Prize winner JR and Mr next level tagging José Parla, recently teamed-up for the next part of the Wrinkles of the City Project - this time they created murals in Havana!
For Wrinkles of the City, JR usually portraits elderly people, representing the memory of the city he picks for its interesting past, talks to them and pasts these portraits, printed in monumental sizes, in the very same city in various places that inspire JR and also represent the city heritage. This time, José Parla goes along with him contributing his amazing abstract typography skills. The combination of the large scale portrait photography works of JR and the stunning calligraphy art of José Parla is just beautiful and results in amazing eye-catchers with even more impact than their both works by itself does already. Take a look and share your love!
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Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada Paints Huge Wall Faces
Beautiful new wall faces by Cuban American contemporary artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada can be found in Argentina and Barhain! The artist, who is going to exhibit at the Guggenheim Bilabo next month, as was mentioned by RJ, is one of the founders of the New York Culture Jamming culture!
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada started replacing the faces of cultural icons chosen by advertisers with the faces of anonymous people in the late 90’s. The idea was to question the controls imposed on public space, the role models designated and the type of events that are guarded by the collective memory. For that reason, Jorge was mentioned in Naomi Klein’s book No Logo, focusing on branding, and often making connections with the anti-globalization movement.
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Egyptian Mural Makes Concrete Wall Transparent!
In Cairo, Egyptian graffiti artists made this military street barrier disappear, by painting a fantastic mural that makes the concrete wall visually transparent! Here’s the story about the Sheikh Rihan mural:
*Following deadly clashes in Tahrir that erupted last November, and resumed more than once after that, which have left over 50 civilian protesters killed, SCAF, the military ruling junta of Egypt has built walls around Tahrir square and its side streets to prevent protesters from passing around. More than 4 walls have been erected, turning Downtown Cairo to a maze-like area with citizens forced to find longer routes to cross the obstacles.
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