Street Art

Well-known London-based urban artist Ronzo just started to put up his Birdz street sculptures series on the streets of London! Ronzo, who not just created London’s unofficial mascot - the Credit Crunch Monster - but also installed several other street sculptures, is a constant cornerstone of the British street art scene. Hence, he was featured in the latest Very Nearly Almost (VNA) magazine… Personally, I couldn’t just go out and paint walls with the same tag or words every night. ...

For all fans of influential street artist Invader, a dream becomes true: Shot in winter 2011, this movie invites you to spend one night in Paris with the French street artist Invader! Invader, well-known around the globe for the amazing space invader tile artworks he puts up during so-called city invasions, is one of the leading street art heroes since the early days of the street art hype. He is not just travelling the world (check out his stuff in South Korea), but was also featured VNA Magazine and in Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop! ...

After the analog Urban Art Guide Vienna, the All City Street Art App, the Geo Street Art iPhone App and the Adidas Urban Art Guide, now also Buenos Aires got its first street art map! Street Art Map is a project dedicated to gathering, locating and preserving the street art movement in Argentina through photographs. Similar to all the other apps and websites, also the Street Art Map Argentina covers just a limited area. Providing a interactive (Google) map as usual, the project allows volunteers to submit their own photos. ...

Famous Belgian muralist Roa recently put up a new huge hedgehog on Chance Street in East-London’s Shoreditch! Roa, who visited the British capital again for his Hypnagogia show at Stolenspace Gallery, created in that way a new pilgrim shrine for new and old fans of his renown portrayals of large scale urban wildlife, hand painted in his distinctive black and white style. After spending several weeks in Australia, this new Roa hedgehog is the first mural he painted in Europe for a long time and I’m pretty sure it will be a good reason for all the Olympics tourists to visit Shoreditch… ...

One of the first posts here was the Top Urban Art Photographers top-list, giving brief introductions about a few of my most favorite graffiti and street art photographers like Keegan Gibbs, Nils Müller, Ruedi One, Ian Cox and others. Similar to the Urban Exploration Photography post this list became one of the Urban Art Core motors over the last months, attracting attention by many of our visitors and friends on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest! For that reason, and due to the fact that this is my 1,000th post on Urban Art Core, I decided to update the list of the top urban art photographers, to help you finding the right inspiration from the world of street art and graffiti! ...

Shepard Fairy aka Obey The Giant is not just the head behind the well-known Obama election poster and this cover for Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2011 issue. No, he also is one of the early-birds of the international street art movement, a true legend if you like to call it that way and for that reason got his tribute in one of the latest The Simpsons episodes! Now, Shepard is going to get his own first film: Obey The Giant - The Shepard Fairey biopic… ...

Blu - Europe Border Europe is a fortress, you can read that thesis almost everywhere at any time. It describes Europe’s border politics as backward-looking, inhuman and as a mass violation of human rights. Recently, one of the world’s most famous mural artists Blu, who became famous with his critical, questioning paintings around the globe, picked up on this border policy with his latest mural in Melilla, Spain! ...

Public murals are often hot-spots for street art and graffiti. When travelling to others cities, have you ever spent hours and hours to find the local public murals to get some pretty nice photos as souvenirs? I did and although this trial an error method of finding the really big murals was usually quite fun, I would have had some more time to do other things either. Luckily, I just stumbled upon the Mural Locator! ...

Herakut Train Tracks Mural Commissioned by the city council of Mannheim, Germany’s most famous urban art duo Herakut upgraded the Rhine-Neckar metropolis some weeks ago with a massive train track mural titled Brothers helping Sisters helping…! The piece, being located in Mannheim’s Glückstein Quartier, shows a row of at least twelve people hugging each other. Facing the tracks, this new Herakut train tracks mural now welcomes all visitors entering the city by train. Wow! ...

VNA 18 - Conor Harrington After I recently got the latest Amateur Magazine from Switzerland, I finally received the 18th issue of London’s finest Very Nearly Almost (VNA) Magazine! And again they put together some of the major players in the urban art scene… Featuring not just bloody awesome painter Conor Harrington, whose East-London studio decorates the cover of VNA 18, but also graffiti legend Mode2, Shawn Barber, mister Calligraffiti Shoe, Ronzo, the largest mural painter Remi Rough and more! In addition to the interesting interviews with those great artists, the mag also includes several nice street shots again, this time focusing on London, Sydney and Rio… ...