Graffiti: JR & José Parla Murals in Havana, Wrinkles of the City Project

Artists JR and José Parla have teamed up for a mural for the Havana Biennial 2012.  JR’s large scale black and white photo pastings with Parla’s typographic styles have come together to make some of the most remarkable street art of the year.

Head on over to their websites, José Parla & JR, for more of their work.
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Street Art: Street Life by Filthy Luker

Get to know the street artist Filthy Luker who attacks his audience with audacious and playful installations. His art attacks and street life works are a nice alternative to the stenciled wit of Banksy, making real life in Manchester seem a bit more fun than usual.

New York Times Style Magazine Interviews Graffiti Artist Tilt

A while back we told you about the coolest new hotel room in France. Now, The New York Times Style Magazine published an interview with Tilt, the artist behind the design.
A lot of the graffiti that people have a problem with is the stuff on trains, garbage cans and doors. The thing is, if you [...]

Art: The Art Pop Up Shop Show/03

It began as a place to showcase the work of artist Coco Dolle‘s friends and the local emerging artist community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Art Pop Up Shop, or T.A.P.S, is now a gallery with monthly events.
This month T.A.P.S is showing the work of Enjoy Mika Azegami’s abstract graffiti paintings, Thomas Brodin’s Brooklyn Photographs, Joe Caswell’s surrealistic [...]

Art: Toronto artist Jimmy Chiale

Jimmy Chiale is a dope artist who currently resides in Toronto, Canada, and is heavily influenced by hip-hop culture. Jimmy first became exposed to the artwork of legends like Pablo Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat growing up in Paris, France, and, once he developed his craft, shipped off to Canada to pursue his artistic passions. Chiale [...]

Graffiti: New Stencil Works by C215

French street artist Christian Guémy, otherwise known as C215, has recently created some amazingly realistic pencil drawings in Barcelona and Berlin. C215 has been an active street artist for over 20 years with his first stencil work appearing in 2006. Apparently, according to Street Art London, he’s passed on the talent. His daughter has joined the family [...]

Graffiti: The Half-Graffiti Hotel Room

Tilt, the world famous street artist, just completed his bold design of a room in the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille, France. For his Panic Room, the apt title of the room, Tilt divided the room perfectly down the middle with one side covered entirely, literally not one open inch, with bright, lively, energetic graffiti and [...]

Street Art: Dan Bergeron’s “Faces of the City”

In his Face of the City series, Dan Bergeron (aka Fauxreel) analyzes the identities of cities by juxtaposing the intimate qualities of the human face with the charm and character of distressed city surfaces. He exquisitely integrates available environmental elements to to help him define the pieces and allow the faces to really pop. Street art at [...]

Graffiti: The Quirky Street Art of Nomerz

The street artist from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia transforms deteriorating buildings, towers and urban spaces into ridiculously realistic, yet fairy tale like faces. A fresh look for street art.

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Exclusive Interview: Jimmy Chiale

I remember the first time I saw Jurassic Park, the one where the T-Rex hops the freighter to San Diego and stomps a whole colony of beachcombers. I also remember trying to fall asleep that night. I was something like 9 at the time. Our house had these 25 foot Austrian pines in the backyard, [...]