Urban Art

PHOTOS: 'Before I Die' Murals Expand In Chicago

The Huffington Post | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Candy Chang Before I Die, Video, Before I Die Art Installation, Chicago Art, Public Art, Urban Art, Before I Die I Want To, Chicago Good News, Before I Die, Chicago Impact, Candy Chang, Chicago Public Art, Chicago News

In the weeks since New Orleans artist Candy Chang's "Before I Die" interactive public art installation made its Chicago debut earlier this year on the...

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PHOTOS: You 'Betcha, Sarah Palin Sculpture Is More Than Just Art -- It Cooks Meat Too

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, J. Taylor Wallace, Chicago Art, Public Art, Urban Art, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Sculpture, J. Taylor Wallace Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Public Art, Sarah Palin Sculpture Cooker, Sarah Palin Art, Chicago News

Chicago recently became home to a flashy new piece of public art. And is it smokin'? You 'betcha! Former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presid...

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PHOTOS: 'Before I Die' Public Art Arrives In Chicago

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Candy Chang Before I Die, Before I Die Art Installation, Chicago Art, Public Art, Urban Art, Chicago Good News, Before I Die I Want To, Before I Die, Candy Chang, Chicago Impact, Slidepollajax, Chicago Public Art, Chicago News

New Orleans artist Candy Chang's "Before I Die" interactive public art installation has made its Chicago debut. The installation, inaugurated last ...

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InterZona Urban Art

Carmen Zella | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Public Art, Murals, Urban Art, Street Art, City Council, Dabs and Myla, Graffiti, Boarders, Los Angeles, Mexico, International Relations, Tijuana, San Diego, Fine Art, Arts News

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A Skeptic Queries "The Artist as Urbanist"

Eric J. Henderson | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: ArtMrkt Hamptons, Baudelaire, Ai Weiwei, Alexis Laurent, Barbara Pollack, Green Urban Planning, Urbanist Art, Artmrkt, Urban Planning, Urban Art, Art Urban Planning, Green Urban Design, Arts News

Alexis Laurent is a contemporary sculptor. His work invites (and counts on) viewers to be part of it to make it whole.

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Banksy and Fairey Headline Urban Art Show At Bonhams

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Urban Art Sale, French Street Art, Ben Eine, Urban Art, Street Art, Joe Rush, Obama, Adam Neate, Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Blek the Rat, Obama Change, Bonham's, Vandalism, Graffiti, Nick Walker, Cyclops, Street Art Sale, Fairey, Mutual Art, Arts News

Via Mutual Art. Whether it’s on the floor or in the street, Urban Art continues to be popular with the general public and high-end art collectors...

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Morley Makes a Mockery of Street Art (Video)

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 09.29.2011

Read More: Pay 2 Play, Street Art, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles, Morley, Los Angeles Street Art, Graffiti Art, Urban Art, Los Angeles Graffiti, Graffiti, La Street Art, Los Angeles Graffiti Art, Los Angeles News

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L.A. 'Street Art' in South Central at Manual Arts High

Carmen Zella | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Murals, South Central LA, Urban Art, Street Art, Graffiti-Art, Education, Art History, Manual Arts, Graffiti, Roa, The Do Lab, Art in the Streets, Moca, Shepard Fairey, LA Culture, Los Angeles News

I interviewed MarkAyala to shed light on his experience teaching art at Manual Arts High. His story of what one person's vision can accomplish amidst a crumbling education is a film-worthy script.

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Teen Curates Urban Art Sale For Charity

Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Charity Auction, Art Auction, Haven Hospice, Liam Patel, Charity, Dreweatts, UK Street Art, Urban Art, Street Art, Lucian Freud, Martha Cooper, Banksy, Blade, Children's Hospital, Arts News

(Via Mutual Art) When asked why he prefers Urban Art over other art forms, curator Liam Patel responded simply, “Because Urban Art looks so much co...

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Banksy Print Of Disney's 'Jungle Book' For Greenpeace Poster Gets $120,000 At Auction

cnn.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Market, Art Auction, Art, Copyright, Urban Art, Street Art, Graffiti, Auction, Prints, Disney, Greenpeace, London, Jungle Book, Banksy, Poster, Bonhams Auction House, Arts News

London, England (CNN) -- Baloo, Mowgli and King Louie of the Apes from Disney film "The Jungle Book" all feature in a print by anonymous graffiti arti...

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WATCH: FILM: Mini-Documentary 'Undercity' Explores New York's Subway Tunnels, Bridges

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Video, Art, New York, Undercity, New York Subway, Subway, Urban Art, Street Art, Documentary, Andrew Wonder, Steve Duncan, Arts News

Andrew Wonder's new mini-documentary, Undercity, explores the literal underbelly of New York, including subway tunnels and bridges. The film was a col...

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TROMPE L'OEIL: Street Artist Dan Witz Paints Hyper-Detailed Mosh Pits

animalnewyork.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Street-Artists, Trompe L'oeil, Painter Dan Witz, Hyper-Real Painting, Mosh Pit Paintings, Hyper-Realism, Urban Art, Street Art, Mosh Pits, Dan Witz, Artist Dan Witz, Mosh Pit, Arts News

Really. It is. Urban prankster and trompe-l'œil street artist and Dan Witz has been adding more hyper-real paintings to his mosh pit series. It's all...

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Augustine Kofie at White Walls

Carmen Zella | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drafting, Collector, Augustine, Art Opening, Vintage, Urban Art, Street Art, White Walls, Futurist, Fine Art, Collage, Kofie, San Fransisco, Arts News

A key player in Los Angeles' Urban Art movement, Augustine Kofie has a remarkable eye for detail -- always layering, constructing and deconstructing his landscape. I asked curator Justin Giarla a few questions about Kofie's newest show.

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NY's Nuit Blanche: "Bring To Light"

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: DoTank:Brooklyn, Brooklyn Street Art, Tom Peyton, Ken Farmer, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, Chris Jordan, Ethan Vogt, Aurash Khawarzad, Annie De Mayo, Street Art, Steven P. Harrington, Performance, Jacob Abramson, Projection Art, Urban Art, Digital Graffiti, Ted Ullrich, Nuit Blanche, Andrew Bujalski, Ryan Uzilevsky, Stephen Zacks, Corinne Odermant, Pepin Gelardi, Furnace Media, Jaime Rojo, Michael Doherty, Anna Muessig, Public Art, Jacquie Jordan, Bring to Light, D.I.Y. Culture, Dotank, Seej, Arts News

"Bring to Light" made unrestricted access to art possible for one glorious night in Greenpoint, Brooklyn as perhaps 10,000 art lovers got out of their homes to enjoy one evening of enlightenment.

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GERMANY on the STREETS of LA

Carmen Zella | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contempoary, Culver City, German Art, Germany, Urban Art, Street Art, Herakut, Graffiti, Los Angeles Art, MA'Claim, Arts News

Art helps us to understand - at times only retrospectively - how events of great importance have left their mark on the lives not only of artists, but...

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STREET ART: Wooster Collective History Of Outlaw Art, Book Review

Cool Hunting | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Os Gemeos, John Lennon, Jenny Holzer, Trespass, Yoko Ono, Urban Art, Street Art, Vito Acconci, Graffiti, Barry-Mcgee, Krink, Wooster Collective, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Arts News

Books on street art are as common as taggers who think they're going to be the next Banksy. So when we heard the elusive artist himself wrote the intr...

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PHOTOS: STREET ART: Which City Has The Best Street Art?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brooklyn Street Art, Bansky, London Street Art, Urban Art, Street Art, Slidepollajax, Graffiti, Artists, Graffiti-Art, London, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Street Art, Arts News

Each city has its own style in every respect -- food, society, culture, and... street art. Street art, a tamer name for graffiti artists whose work h...

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BLOG WATCH > Street Art Gets The Kids To The Museum on Brooklyn Street Art

Brooklyn Street Art | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brooklyn Street Art, Pedro-Alonzo, Spray-Paint, Urban Art, Brooklyn, New York Art, Street Art, Slideshow, Arts News

As art institutions gear themselves continually to remain (or become) relevant to Gen Net patrons, all manner of incarnations will likely continue to ...

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BLOG WATCH > Urban Artist Gaia's Soulful Murals On Brooklyn Street Art

Brooklyn Street Art | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brooklyn Street Art, Spray-Paint, Murals, Brooklyn, Urban Art, Street Art, Gaia, Atlanta, New York, Arts News

Jenna and Jayne spent the whole weekend working their phones, chasing after artists, getting soaked in the rain, dancing and taking in the Hotlanta ai...

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UNDERGROUND ART: Parisians Find Playground Under The Streets

wsj.com | By DON DUNCAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Murals, Urban Art, Underground Art, Tunnels, Catacombs, Cataphile, Paris, Arts News

PARIS--While many Parisians go out on the town on Saturday evenings, a small but growing number go under it. Beneath Paris lies a network of some 155...

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URBAN ART: Rome's Graffiti Pits Clean-Up Crews Against Artists

wsj.com | By MARGHERITA STANCATI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Graffiti, Italian-Artist, Italy, Graffiti-Art, Historic-Buildings, Urban Art, Controversial Art, Rome, Arts News

ROME--On a recent afternoon, a group of American diplomats gathered on Rome's cobblestones with buckets and rollers, spreading peach-colored paint acr...

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(NO LONGER STARVING) ARTIST ALERT: From Street Art To The White House

The Guardian | Jon Henley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Britain, Ben Eine, Cassius Colman, Nelly Duff Gallery, Urban Art, David Cameron, Ben Flynn, Street Art, Graffiti, Columbia Road, Arts News

'So it's been a weird day today," says the most recent posting on Ben Eine's website. "David Cameron has given one of my paintings to President Obama....

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STREET ART: LA Exposed At Art Basel's VOLTA 6

Carmen Zella | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Graffiti, Urban Art, Art Basel, Street Art, Emerging Art, La Art Machine, Vox Humana, Mearone, Moca, Kofie, Joshua Liner, Rivera and Rivera, The Barnstormers, Write on Africa, Bryson Strauss, Willem Kerseboom, Scope, Banksy, Liste, Art Fair, El Mac, Contemporary Art, Volta, Live Painting, Retna, Basquiat, Jeffery Dietch, Shepard Fairey, Museum, Smash 137, Basel Switzerland, Arts News

An invitation to hang out with four of LA's best-known street artists at the biggest art fair in the world? Irresistible. It was an opportunity to be...

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Jeremy Silas Ulibarri's Art For At-Risk Youth Mistakenly Labeled Graffiti

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: At-Risk Youth, Jolt, Urban Art, Guerilla Garden, Guerilla Gorilla, Jeremy Silas Ulibarri, Graffiti, Denver Urban Arts Fund, History Channel, Denver, Video, Impact News

Denver artist Jeremy Silas Ulibarri was shocked to learn his signature gorilla artwork had been featured on the History Channel show Gangland as evide...

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Artist Tim Burke Recycles Detroit History, And Rescues Himself (PHOTOS)

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Historical Artifacts, Slideshows, Detroit Artists, The Unconscious, Comerica Park, Urban Art, Steve Buscemi, Yves Tanguy, Recycling, Environmental Art, Art Therapy, Lucy Thurman YWCA, Heidelberg Street, Industrial Art, Diane Tucker, The Inner Life, Detroit Landmarks, Eco-Friendly Art, Dreams in Art, Green Living, Alcoholism, Ford Field, Tim Burke, Slideshow, Recycled Art, Careers, Hudson?S Department Store Implosion, Reuse of Refuse, Detroit Industrial Gallery, Faces in the Hood, Tyree Guyton, Surrealism, Detroit Institute of Arts, Joan Miro, No Impact Week, Dreams, Outsider Art, Trash Art, F-15 Fighter Jets, 1967 Detroit Riots, Pablo Picasso, Addiction & Recovery, Motor City Artists, The Heidelberg Project, Small Business, Wayne State University, Photo Galleries, Triumph, Green News

Detroiter Tim Burke calls himself an artist, a scavenger, and a non-practicing alcoholic. Devoted to the reuse of refuse, the 40-something sculptor us...

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