SCENE REPORT: NEW YORK
Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few select photographers.
AN UPDATE WITH MECRO
Over the years Mecro has dominated the panels with his crispy clean beveled type and the work speaks for itself. Today we check out a variety of his work that not only includes just trains. If you say the words beveled letters along with trains, anyone who follows the freight train graffiti scene will most […]
SCENE REPORT: LOS ANGELES
Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few select photographers. Walter Yetman aka The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye delivers this week’s Los Angeles Scene Report featurin the work of Reck, Fobek, Hearse, Aidz, Hilo, Ozer, Yeahboi, Wolfe and more. […]
WE LOVE DELHI
“WE LOVE DELHI” BY LEK & SOWAT AND HANIF KURESHI with this beautiful french-indian collaboration between Lek & Sowat and Indian artist Hanif Kureshi. After speaking with children of the community who play cricket at their site everyday, the artists decided to write the text ‘We love Delhi’ in hindi which Hanif then painted on top of their sanskrit cyphers […]
LITTLE MONSTERS AT POW! WOW!
KEVIN LYONS’ LITTLE MONSTERS AT POW! WOW! HAWAII In Honolulu for the yearly POW! WOW! Hawaii 2016, American artist, creative director, illustrator and typograph Kevin Lyons was given the perfect wall to bring to life some of his signature mischievous monsters. The New Yorker came up with the idea of these funky monster characters after he had his first child. His […]
Walter Yetman aka The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye
Walter Yetman aka The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye delivers this week’s Los Angeles Scene Report featuring Kemr, Jase, Delae, Spuna, Snake, Yunoe, Qyer, Aidz and more. See more photos from The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye here and Follow him on Instagram.
STREET LIFE
Martin Wong, whose visionary paintings of the 1980s capture the tragic lows and vibrant highs of life on New York’s decaying Lower East Side, received his first and, until now, only retrospective in 1998, at the New Museum, as he was dying of AIDS. After more than a decade during which his work received relatively […]
SABIO STYLN’ IN SAO PAULO
Do you consider this a throw up these days? It’s like a throw up with a couple extra decorative touches. Sabio has some really fun letters here ether way.
SCENE REPORT: BAY AREA
Mike D aka Doomsday1973 delivers this week’s Bay Area Scene Report featurinf Demos, Salute, Berg, Meck, Avert, Aneml, BTH crew, Nope, Lolc Crew, Snarl, Spree, Orfn and more. See more photos from Doomsday1973 on Instagram.
SCENE REPORT: DETROIT
Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few select photographers. Scene Report. See more photos from German Friday and his Instagram
AN ABANDONED CHURCH IS TRANSFORMED INTO A COLORFUL SKATEPARK
An abandoned church in Llanera, Asturias was recently converted into a skate park and canvased by artist Okuda San Miguel. With the help of an online fundraising push and support from Red Bull, a collective lead by the “Church Brigade’ salvaged and transformed the space into one of the coolest spots to skate we’ve seen.
THE PAPER PAINTERS
Ella & Pitr are from the the French town of Saint-Étienne. When this duo met, Pitr, serious and of dour demeanor, unrepentant tagger and graffiti artist, had been clandestinely hitting the city walls for close to a decade, and wondering where to take things next. One dark and stormy autumnal night, this solitary individual would […]
BANKSY SYRIAN REFUGEE CAMP IN FRANCE
After Dismaland, Banksy pledged all the leftover building materials to Calais, France to help construct dwellings and structures for the Jungle camp, a refugee camp for Syrians who have fled their homeland’s war. He just completed a few signature pieces around the city, and because of his immense following, has brought attention to a few […]
JOE IURATO “EVERYTHING BUT THE WHOLE STORY”
This past week Station 16 Gallery in Montreal opened Everything but the Whole Story, a solo show featuring Joe Iurato. Based on photography, JoeIurato creates site-specific wooden cut-outs that reflect upon his personal experiences. The tiny black and white figures interact with their environment in often extravagant manners, from scaling a skyscraper, to dangling from a bridge, to […]
DALEAST IN BORÅS
Swedish town of Borås recently hosted another edition of their No Limit Borås street art festival. Along with other 10 international artist, Chinese-born DALeast was one of the participants, leaving his recognizable mark in the town’s university library. The artist spent a whole week working on 5 different sections of the 3 storey building, creating […]
