{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Urban Art Recap"],"cover":{"alt":"Top 5 of Urban Artcore 2011","height":1520,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/top-5-of-urban-artcore-2011/banksy-bulgaria.jpg","width":2480},"credit":"","date":"2011-12-28T14:27:19Z","description":"2011 Recap: Graffiti Wars, train-writing documentaries, Banksy dummies and animal murals - that were this year’s most popular urban art news on Urbanartcore. What a nice year!","html":"\u003cp\u003eYep, it’s the end of the year which means that it’s time for the annual top-list reviews! Back in 2010, I collected the \u003ca href=\"/top-urban-art-books-2010/\"\u003eTop 3 Urban Art Books\u003c/a\u003e and honored the \u003ca href=\"/top-urban-artists-2010/\"\u003eTop Urban Artists\u003c/a\u003e and for sure I’m going to create some similar top-lists also for 2011! But before I’ll do so, I thought it probably would be interesting for you to get to know this year’s five most popular Urbanartcore posts, for what reason I deeply eyed the traffic statistics to find the most visited articles which were published during the last 52 weeks. Here are the most popular posts in 2011:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/graffiti-wars-banksy-vs-robbo/\"\u003eGraffiti Wars: Banksy vs. Robbo\u003c/a\u003e\nIn August 2011, the crazy battle between \u003cstrong\u003eBanksy\u003c/strong\u003e and Team \u003cstrong\u003eRobbo\u003c/strong\u003e climaxed with the broadcast of the \u003cem\u003eGraffiti Wars\u003c/em\u003e urban art documentary examining the creative tensions and conflicts between those popular representatives of street art and graffiti\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/1up-graffiti-one-united-power/\"\u003e1UP Graffiti – One United Power\u003c/a\u003e\nIn November, Berlin’s most famous \u003cstrong\u003e1UP\u003c/strong\u003e crew put the cat among the pigeons by announcing the first official 1UP movie! Including hours of nice graffiti action from around the world it’s definitely one of the best graffiti documentary I’ve watched so far - read \u003ca href=\"/1up-graffiti-documentary-review/\"\u003emy review\u003c/a\u003e to get to know more details\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/banksy-of-bulgaria/\"\u003eBanksy of Bulgaria\u003c/a\u003e\nDubbed \u003cem\u003eBanksy of Bulgaria\u003c/em\u003e by some news agencies, a graffiti crew transformed statues of Soviet soldiers at the base of a Soviet Army monument into superheroes and cartoon characters back in June!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/unlike-u-trainwriting-in-berlin/\"\u003eUnlike U – Trainwriting in Berlin\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eUnlike U\u003c/em\u003e is the second graffiti/ train writing documentary in this top-list. It recently attracted press attention again, when a major train company went to court to fight against the movie.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/murals-roa-in-mexico/\"\u003eMurals: Roa in Mexico\u003c/a\u003e\nBack in February, famous urban artist \u003cstrong\u003eRoa\u003c/strong\u003e staggered the world with some impressing new murals from Mexico. All the better that he also \u003ca href=\"/roa-exhibition-berlin-photos/\"\u003ecame to Berlin\u003c/a\u003e in July and \u003ca href=\"/roa-western-australia/\"\u003evisited  Australia\u003c/a\u003e a few weeks ago\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m pretty sure, there will be similar interesting urban art news in 2012 as well! So make sure to subscribe the \u003ca href=\"http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Urbanartcore\"\u003eUrbanartcore RSS feed\u003c/a\u003e or to become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/urbanartcore.eu\"\u003efan on Facebook\u003c/a\u003e!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore 2011 top-lists soon\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\n\n\nYep, it’s the end of the year which means that it’s time for the annual top-list reviews! Back in 2010, I collected the [Top 3 Urban Art Books](/top-urban-art-books-2010/) and honored the [Top Urban Artists](/top-urban-artists-2010/) and for sure I’m going to create some similar top-lists also for 2011! But before I’ll do so, I thought it probably would be interesting for you to get to know this year’s five most popular Urbanartcore posts, for what reason I deeply eyed the traffic statistics to find the most visited articles which were published during the last 52 weeks. Here are the most popular posts in 2011:\n\n\n- [Graffiti Wars: Banksy vs. Robbo](/graffiti-wars-banksy-vs-robbo/)\nIn August 2011, the crazy battle between **Banksy** and Team **Robbo** climaxed with the broadcast of the *Graffiti Wars* urban art documentary examining the creative tensions and conflicts between those popular representatives of street art and graffiti...\n\n- [1UP Graffiti – One United Power](/1up-graffiti-one-united-power/)\nIn November, Berlin’s most famous **1UP** crew put the cat among the pigeons by announcing the first official 1UP movie! Including hours of nice graffiti action from around the world it’s definitely one of the best graffiti documentary I’ve watched so far - read [my review](/1up-graffiti-documentary-review/) to get to know more details...\n\n- [Banksy of Bulgaria](/banksy-of-bulgaria/)\nDubbed *Banksy of Bulgaria* by some news agencies, a graffiti crew transformed statues of Soviet soldiers at the base of a Soviet Army monument into superheroes and cartoon characters back in June!\n\n- [Unlike U – Trainwriting in Berlin](/unlike-u-trainwriting-in-berlin/)\n*Unlike U* is the second graffiti/ train writing documentary in this top-list. It recently attracted press attention again, when a major train company went to court to fight against the movie.\n\n- [Murals: Roa in Mexico](/murals-roa-in-mexico/)\nBack in February, famous urban artist **Roa** staggered the world with some impressing new murals from Mexico. All the better that he also [came to Berlin](/roa-exhibition-berlin-photos/) in July and [visited  Australia](/roa-western-australia/) a few weeks ago...\n\n\nI’m pretty sure, there will be similar interesting urban art news in 2012 as well! So make sure to subscribe the [Urbanartcore RSS feed](http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Urbanartcore) or to become a [fan on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/urbanartcore.eu)!\n\nMore 2011 top-lists soon...\n","tags":["Documentary Film","Mural Art","Banksy","Roa","1UP"],"title":"Top 5 of Urban Artcore 2011","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/top-5-of-urban-artcore-2011/"}