Urban art recap and editorial roundups—monthly and yearly summaries capturing the best and most important developments in street art, graffiti, and urban culture. Stay connected to trends and emerging moments.
This collection provides perspective on the urban art landscape, highlighting significant works, new artists, and cultural moments that define each period. Browse monthly summaries and annual top 10 lists to understand what’s driving the conversation in contemporary urban art.
Similar to the latest Urban Art Link-Tips, it’s been a long time since the last Urban Art Recap was published in September 2011. Nonetheless, I’d like to give you a short summary about the five most popular street art, graffiti and urbanism things on Urban Art Core in June 2012… Fin DAC’s Female Stencil Art Series London-based stencil artist Fin DAC worked hard on his latest female stencil art series (see above), combining hand-cut single-layer stencils with freehand spitting. With that, Fin again gave some beauty to the world! ...
Yeah, we did it again! Another New Year’s Eve is over and I’m fit again after staying at home with some big headache…Anyway, after posting the Top 10 Urban Artists 2011 and the Top Urban Art Actions 2011 I got some nice e-mails asking for some more 2011 reviews and hey, of course my personal ratings are not really objective, for what reason I would like to give you the advice to take a look at the 2011 reviews by some of my favorite blogs! ...
After the top ten urban artists 2011 and this year’s most popular Urbanartcore posts here comes the third urban art recap of 2011: Top Urban Art Actions 2011! I tried to collect ten of the most inspiring urban art actions in 2011 and bring them together in one nice list, so that you have the chance to make sure you know all the great and extraordinary, subversive interventions and artworks… Explosion Wall Art by Vhils One of the most spectacular creational processes was the controlled demolition by Portuguese-born urban artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils - just beautiful! ...
After presenting the five most popular Urbanartcore posts in 2011, I will now honor this year’s top ten urban artists! Of course it’s difficult to do that. There’s a massive count of highly talented urban artists out there around the globe and I’m pretty sure either that there are also some great street or graffiti artists I haven’t heard about yet. Nevertheless I gave my best and wrote together some of the most influential and popular names from both, the street art and graffiti scene. Here we go: ...
Yep, 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 and honored the Top Urban Artists 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: ...
Again we pulled through another month and again I really enjoyed it, bringing the latest street art and graffiti news, urban art photos and book review directly into your browser. Here are the most popular posts in September: IBUg 2011 – Urban Art Festival Photos Organized by famous German graffiti artist Ta55o, this year’s IBUg festival took place in Saxonia again. I joined the preparations was able to give you some nice insights… ...
As I already explained in the urban art recap for July, I’m going to regularly feature the five top posts for every month in a special recap post. This are the most popular posts in August 2011: Graffiti Wars: Banksy vs. Robbo British Channel4 broadcasted Graffiti Wars, a documentary about the clash between graffiti and street art by analyzing the King Robbo vs. Banksy battle in and around London. Unfortunately the content mafia interfered broadcasting on Youtube or Vimeo… ...
To give you a short overview about what happened in the last month and to feature some great stories a second time, I thought it would be a nice idea to recap the five top stories (with the highest count of visitors) at the end of every month. Here are the five top stories of July 2011: ATO: New Banksy or Best Street Artist ever? Probably to beef about street art, a Russian art collective came up with a funny idea - they invented ATO, the new Banksy! A funny must to see… ...
Street Art Review | It’s the last day of the year and for that reason it’s possible to create a lot of different top lists like “Top Urban Art Books 2010”, “Best Urban Art Photos 2010” or this one: “Top Urban Artists 2010”. For sure, it’s difficult to do that, because of the massive count of highly talented urban artists around the globe and of course it’s always my subjective opinion, but it’s also true that I saw, met and recognized some really good artists in the last 12 months, I want to feature in this post. ...
Since I launched Urban Artcore with that great Urban Photo Contest in August 2009, a lot happened. I wrote 358 articles about graffiti, street art, urban life, abandoned places, exhibition, art shows and festivals, drew up 474 tags and made interviews with a large number of famous artists. Although the number of visitors and also the number of feed readers are continuously increasing, I’m a bit impatient of the number of comments… In my opinion, comments make a blog more vibrant and allow more controversial discussions or changes of views. For that reason I thought, that it is time to originate an Urban Artcore question time! Now I would like to know what I can do better!? ...