New Scientist’s Arc Magazine and science fiction author Tim Maughan are proud to announce the online debut of the low budget, experimental short film Paintwork. Set in near-future Bristol – the British city known internationally for spawning Banksy – it follows augmented reality graffiti artist… Read More
This is the first narrative film about the early life of street artist Shepard Fairey and the origin of his OBEY GIANT street art campaign. The film is based on the true story of Shepard Fairey’s first act of street art during his time at… Read More
Journalist and blogger Soraya Morayef, who has covered the Egyptian revolution’s graffiti, produced new video reports about the street art of the Arab world, as part of a series for MOCAtv, the YouTube channel of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Read Soraya Morayef’s… Read More
ikonoTv has featured el Seed early on and continues to be amazed by his work. The Jara Mosque in Gabes boasts the tallest minaret in all of Tunisia and now it is covered in el Seed’s signature calligraffiti. Exactly one year after the Jasmine revolution,… Read More
The Facadeprinter uses paintballs to draw huge images onto walls. Dot by dot, it thus creates mural artworks. The Facadeprinter is a large-scale communication tool, an ink-dot printer in architectural dimensions – and the first distance-printer in the world. The machine is integrated into a… Read More
Concrete sculptures and large-format expressionistic paintings that combine collected ephemera with layered oils and graffiti-style brushstrokes bring the streets into the gallery for José Parlá’s exhibition Broken Language at Haunch of Venison in London. In this documentary short, the New York-based, Miami-born artist mines inspiration… Read More
The Ayyam Gallery, which now has offices in Beirut, the Gulf, and London, has become “a conduit for Syrian artists to express their responses to the devastation of their country.” Some of those responses have received a huge response online. The New York Times reports… Read More
Virgin Atlantic Airlines has teamed up with British artist Ben Eine to launch the first ever flying commercial art gallery. The airline is offering it’s Upper Class passengers flying between London and New York the opportunity to view, and purchase, a series of one-of-a-kind paintings… Read More
The city’s streets have become gallery walls for the Street Museum of Art. The SMoA is the first public art project to adopt the guerrilla tactics of a street artist in a program of illegally curated exhibitions. Admission is always free and the hours are… Read More
The obsessively secretive members of an underground art collective have spent the last 30 years surreptitiously staging events in tunnels beneath Paris. They say they never ask permission – and never ask for subsidies. Kirsty Lang reports for the BBC: “We’re standing nervously on the… Read More
