--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Urban Art Link Tips cover: alt: Urban Micro Gardens, Hidden Shops, Amazing Murals & Awesome Tape Art height: 1652 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-gardens-murals-tape-art/vinz-valencia.jpg width: 2480 credit: '' date: '2012-07-03T18:51:16Z' description: The monthly Urban Art Link-Tips feature urban micro gardens, hidden shops, amazing murals, awesome tape art and much more. Check this out! tags: - Art Installation - Mural Art - Banksy - Vinz - Urban Gardening - Street Art Europe title: Urban Micro Gardens, Hidden Shops, Amazing Murals & Awesome Tape Art url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-gardens-murals-tape-art/ --- # Urban Micro Gardens, Hidden Shops, Amazing Murals & Awesome Tape Art It’s been a long time, since the last Urban Art Link-Tips literary came into the world... the latest are from back in [December 2011](/wooden-installations-x-rayed-buildings-graffiti-in-japan-1up/). Nevertheless, I really like the idea of giving a short overview about things that happened during the last weeks and didn’t made it into the **Urban Art Core** stream! Here we go... - **Ever**, one of the best young muralists in South America, just posted that pretty [video of his recent trip to Mexico](http://blog.vandalog.com/2012/07/video-ever-in-mexico/). - [Urban artist **Vinz**](/usual-misdeeds-vinz-austria/) recently created this very nice [*Don’t Be Afraid*](http://urbanshit.de/?p=8934) mural in his home-town Valencia... - ...and also my French friend **Shaka** put up a new [mural in Melun](http://graffart.eu/blog/2012/07/shaka-new-mural-in-melun-france/), France! - In Paris, artist **Paule Kingleur** [transformed traffic barriers](http://www.altuseguide.com/home/paris-street-bollards-as-micro-gardens.html) into a series of micro gardens. - Brazilian architect **Alan Chu** designed a brilliant [secret shop](http://popupcity.net/2012/06/sao-paulos-secret-tea-shop/) for a local tea brand in a shopping center in São Paulo, great! - **Monika Grzymala** installed a pretty awesome tape art installation entitled [*Aerial*](http://www.welikethat.de/2012/06/05/monika-grzymala-aerial-tape-installation/) and including about 5km tape! - [**Moneyless**](/moneyless/) and **Mark Lyken** named their latest collaboration installation [*Forms and Spaces*](http://graffuturism.com/2012/06/04/moneyless-mark-lyken-forms-and-spaces-installations/) - fits! - New Zealand based photographer **Linda Radosinska** brings **Banksy**’s [street art to life](http://weburbanist.com/2012/06/04/fine-art-photographer-brings-banksys-street-art-to-life/). - And last but not least features the [Underground New York Public Library](http://www.ektopia.co.uk/ektopia/2012/07/02/underground-new-york-public-library/) the Reading-Riders of the NYC subways... That’s it for now. More [Urban Art Link-Tips](/urban-art-link-tips/) next month!