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.
Black Hills Not 4 Sale!
The Black Hills (named after their dark appearance from a distance) are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota. In November 2011, Shepard Fairey and his team created a huge mural in Los Angeles to call attention on the many problems of the native’s reservation…
We worked together with Shepard Fairey over the next several months to collaborate and bring something to the streets of Los Angeles. With help from Miguel of La Barracuda this 20x60 wall on Melrose Ave at Fairfax was secured. What you see here is the culmination of the tireless efforts of Aaron Huey and Shepard Fairey.
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Urban Art Berlin: James Bullough & Karl Addison
Originally from Baltimore and Seattle the two urban artists James Bullough and Karl Addison (together known as JBAK) are pushing urban art in Berlin for round about a year now, creating colorful murals (like the purple one they did last year) by combining photo-realism, geometric forms and fine line drawing styles.
JBAK - Urban Art Berlin Though their styles and approaches are different, their shared interests in art and culture and their desires to experiment within the limitlessness of their mediums, brought them together. Their mutual love of travel, urban societies, and the people who inhabit them, led to the development of a more cohesive theme of unity and humanity. (Jennifer Weitman about James Bullough & Karl Addison)
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Blu Murals Buenos Aires
After he painted in nearly every European metropolis (check out the Blu murals in Europe) in 2011, Italian street artist Blu is on a trip through South America right now, painting one mural after another…
Argentina’s Blu Murals Especially the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires seems to be one of his favorite target: After he painted that impressive mural of obediently leader following Argentinian folks back in November 2011 and the funny BBQ mural and the Blu Planet painting in December, the Italian mural king came up with a new money river mural just a few days ago!
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The Toasters Everywhere
For over a decade, the legendary Toasters crew hits cities around the globe, spreading their famous icon (a toaster of course) far and wide! A year ago the first trailer for their own documentary saw the light of day and now time almost has come…
The Toasters Worldwide The Toasters, that are three Wolverhampton natives with contacts all over the world (and especially to Italian Ultras), who were into street art already at the early beginning, when street art had not been pigeonholed as street art and lots of its today’s protagonists had been neither that famous. I’m not quite sure why they’ve chosen a toaster as their logo, but what I know is that they used it to establish their own brand very well!
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JR Inside Out Haiti
Some months ago, one of the world’s leading artists, TED Prize winner JR came up with the incredible JR Inside Out project, a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work.
Inside Out in Haiti Together with Eyes on Haiti, the global art projectInside Out recently rose souls in the Caribbean country of Haiti! It looks like there are lots of talented photographers around the world, identifying with the JR Inside Out philosophy and for that reason join the challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world, what a great success!
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Yarn Bombing - Spidertag in Porto
Spanish urban artist Spidertag who is quite well-known in Europe for his yarn bombing artworks (he calls them spider tags) just spent the last days in abandoned buildings in Porto, Portugal and of course created some new stuff using nothing more than a few nails, a hammer and some yarn!
It’s all about nails, yarn, geometry, abstraction and streets. (Spidertag)
Spidertag got quite popular in Berlin, when he visited the city for several weeks back in 2011. Among other things he created together with yarn artists Moneyless and Hottea that one spot for a well-known sports equipment manufacturer…
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Clemens Behr - Urban Places & Spaces
2011 was a really successful year for German urban artist Clemens Behr who not just explored urban places and spaces around the world by creating amazing cardboard installations in public space, but also exhibited in Berlin, his adoptive home!
Exploring urban places… Clemens loves working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms. His abstract installations, composed of cardboard, wood, paint, tape and found materials, often result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects.
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Stencil Street Art: Sten & Lex in Rome
The last post I wrote about famous Italian stencil street art duo Sten and Lex was about the great mural artwork they created in Lyon, France back in 2010 - Now it’s time again!
Sten and Lex who are well known for their fantastic and often huge street art stencil works recently created a new mural in Rome! Based on a former wall portrait sketch, the duo created a stencil again and ported the image to the streets of Rome - more precisely on the door of a former porn cinema. Nice idea and successful realization!
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VNA #17 - The London Police
After Sickboy, Shepard Fairey and Invader it’s now The London Police decorating the cover of the latest issue (number 17!) of London’s finest VNA Magazine!
Again, the mag includes great interviews with some of the top urban artists from around the world, like Goldie, El Mac, Toasters just to name a few, and features with London, Milan and Toronto some nice metropolises and especially its street art scenes! Again, VNA 17 is a nice reading for urban art enthusiasts from all over the globe and worth to check out.
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Walls & Frames - Fine Street Art
Bringing together round about 100 of the most famous and talented urban artists from around the world like Vhils, Amose, Base23, Boxi, L’Atlas and Smash 137 (just to name a few), Walls & Frames - Fine Art from the Streets by Maximiliano Ruiz and Gestalten Publishing presents on 265 colorful pages a cutting-edge collection of recent artworks by young artists who are moving from the street into galleries.
Street art has firmly established itself as a facet and attitude in the landscape of contemporary art. Today, young artists are going beyond their work on the streets to present their innovative styles in galleries. Walls & Frames documents the work of this next generation of street artists.
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