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By Suzanne Moore To see interesting art you don’t have to go to a gallery, you just have to walk the streets. One of the most reproduced images of the past couple of weeks is a mural, commissioned in Brixton, of David Bowie, by the Australian street artist Jimmy C (James Cochran) which now acts […]
Today in Athens the murals are everywhere and tell the anger, the crises and the hopes of a people. Paul, MaPet, Absent and Bleeps. (Athens) Since the beginning of the Greek crisis, the street art was a way to tell and express anger and protest against the crisis and the austerity policies in Europe. Today […]
On the streets of his bombed-out neighborhood, Ayham Ahmad plays a battered piano and sings the stories of Syria’s war. Four years of conflict have brought his hometown of Yarmouk — a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus — to its knees. Like many Palestinian camps around the region, Yarmouk had evolved into […]
“To Beirut, From my heart, I send peace to Beirut, And kisses to the sea and homes, To the Rock that is as the face of an old sailor. She comes from the soul of the people, from wine, She comes from their sweat, from jasmine. Then how did her taste change to smoke and […]
One of the biggest satisfactions of creating my art comes through the actions I make on the streets. When I work on the streets one of my aims is to reach as many levels of society as possible, not only to those who are art sensitive. The streets belong to everybody, specially to those who […]
Artwork criticising international response to country’s debt crisis has flourished amid economic turmoil and social hardship. Jon Henley meets the artists As a fraught and worn-out Greece careered this week towards a historic vote that could determine its future for generations, one image has captured the country’s dilemma. Websites, TV stations and newspapers around the […]
The writing’s on the wall: graffiti in Athens reflect the anxiety felt by many Greeks amid the uncertainty over the country’s debt crisis
This piece is part of Axel Void’s “Mediocre” series. Its painted in the neighborhood of Szopienice, in the outsides of Katowice. Szopience is considered a humble and at times conflictive, working class neighborhood. The murals are the two sides of a building where three families live, next to the train tracks and in front of […]
What some call vandalism, others call street art. Where some see criminals, others see outlaw poets, heroes of free speech taking their work directly to the people, bypassing galleries and auction houses, and democratizing the relationship between art and the public. That outlaw freedom jumped time and space last week when the Google Street Art […]
Graffiti is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Dubai. When you stroll among the desert city’s skyscrapers or drive along its ever-changing roads, there is little street art to be seen, aside from the occasional hastily scrawled musing. But, if you meander down the alleyways of the beachside suburb […]
A London renter has created street graphs throughout the capital to highlight fast-rising rents, evictions and homelessness, the chronic shortage of affordable housing and the decline in homeownership fonte: http://goo.gl/zmGdv3
Syrian artists paint to show the world the gruesome reality behind the war that destroyed most of their homeland. As the war in Syria enters its fifth year, millions of homes have been destroyed and almost half of the population has been displaced. Hundreds of thousands have been killed and injured- the war has resulted […]
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