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....
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...
Graffiti in the death strip: the Berlin wall’s first street artist tells his story
Thierry Noir was the first to daub the ultimate symbol of communist repression with cartoonish graffiti, and his creations became world famous. Here, he...
Tehran’s answer to Banksy: Medhi Ghadyanloo hits Britain (By Jonathan Jones)
Flying cars, magic portals, levitating giraffes … street artist Medhi Ghadyanloo’s eye-popping murals make Tehran smile – but his paintings also probe Iran’s turbulent...
Blu paints a new piece in Sucre, Bolivia
Our friend Blu is currently touring through sunny South America where he just finished working on a brand new piece somewhere on the...