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JR: Larger Than LifeGuerilla street artist JR is one of those artists whose work speaks not only to the privileged few who can afford million dollar paintings but to the masses that it documents.
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Megx: Lego The Drab CityLego bridge in Germany is an instance where quirky ideas like applying primary colours to a concrete bridge can facilitate happiness in an otherwise monotonous drive.
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Aakash Nihalani 3D Tape InstallationsAakash Nihalani is as down-to-earth as a street artist can get. He’s “not trying to push a certain highbrow logic or philosophy”, he’s okay with cops taking down his art (as long as they allow him to take a quick photo first), and he works with tape…
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Futura: Future Shock at ValmorbidaSeptember 6, 6-9pm Valmorbida, 560 Washington St, New York, NY 10014 FUTURA, born Leonard Hilton McGurr, is widely known as one of the pioneers of the New York street art movement. Working in a time before hip hop became a commodity, he was “bombing” subway cars while simultaneously exhibiting internationally. He has continued to transcend [...]
· EXCLUSIVITY, WEB ·
Weekly Viral Report CardM any of you can probably relate to our obsession with statistics. There is an ongoing unspoken competition in our office for who gets the most views on their posts, so we decided to materialize this obsession into a ‘Weekly Viral Report’ that includes the top post on Trendland.com, the most repined images from our [...]
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Street Art Installation by mark jenkinsStreet artist and all-round impresario Mark Jenkins makes the city his stage, life-like sculptures his actors and passers-by his audience – free admission for all!
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Evol’s Cardboard BuildingsGerman street artist EVOL seems to be obsessed with buildings. After transforming electric boxes from Berlin into apparently livable blocks of apartments, he’s tried to do the same with pieces of paper and cardboard and the result is amazing.
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Boamistura Favela Murals In São PauloMadrileños creative group Boamistura recently completed a series of anamorphosis (trompe l’oeil) walls with this brilliant street art participative project in Vila Brâsilandia, one of São Paulo’s favela. The project focused on
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Metiisage by Mademoiselle MauriceMetiisage is a street project by French artist Mademoiselle Maurice. Dressing cities and making street art with ribbons. Her use of fences and trees as a canvas is pretty genius idea.
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Thom Thom Billboard ArtFrench urban artist Thom Thom aka Hephaestus or Thomas Louis Jacques Schmitt is not a typical street artist, working only on billboards, he cuts, slashs, slices, and re-sticks to reconstruct the advertising message to distinguish it and upgrade it into street art. The consumerist publicity is
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Stanislava Pinchuk’s Street ArtStanislava Pinchuk’s babushka street art caught my attention this morning. The 21-year-old Melbourne based artist creates street art under the alias Miso. Besides the brilliant subject matter and the beautiful execution I especially like the application of these works. The impact of two exact works back to back, juxtaposed at either end of a door, [...]
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Yarn Pothole Art in ParisThis ‘Nid de Poule‘ (Pothole) project reminds me a lot of the Dispatchwork by Jan Vormann. With colorful strips of yarn Juliana Santacruz Herrera decided to decorate Paris’ potholes. Randomly placed in cracks and breaks it creates a fun and colorful change in the landscape contrasting with the decrepit cement.