ATHENS: THE STREET ART TELLS THE CRISIS. AS PROTEST RUNS ON THE WALLS
Today in Athens the murals are everywhere and tell the anger, the crises and the hopes of a people. Paul, MaPet, Absent and Bleeps....
Syria’s Piano Man Sings The Stories Of The War
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...
Spotlight on Yazan Halwani, Beirut’s Street Artist
“To Beirut, From my heart, I send peace to Beirut, And kisses to the sea and homes, To the Rock that is as the...
Asia’s Social And Political Issues Through The Eyes Of Pejac
One of the biggest satisfactions of creating my art comes through the actions I make on the streets. When I work on the streets...
Greece’s anti-austerity murals: street art expresses a nation’s frustration
Artwork criticising international response to country’s debt crisis has flourished amid economic turmoil and social hardship. Jon Henley meets the artists As a...
Greek graffiti – in pictures
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
Axel Void paints a new piece in Katowice, Poland
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...
Google Street Art Project: ‘We are not the mural police, we are the mural conservancy’
What some call vandalism, others call street art. Where some see criminals, others see outlaw poets, heroes of free speech taking their work directly...
Female street artists take to Dubai’s walls
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...
Street-chart: London’s housing crisis illustrated – in pictures
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...
Anatomy of a revolution through art
Syrian artists paint to show the world the gruesome reality behind the war that destroyed most of their homeland. As the war in Syria...
Olek Beautifies Homeless Shelter with Colorful Crocheted Yarn
Crochet-artist extraordinaire Olek visually transformed one of the 184 homeless shelters which dot the Indian capital city of New Delhi, to raise awareness...