Urban Art Blog

and living in Holland ;)

Some people truly have the right to feel smug, especially when they have skills like the legendary Bristol street artist Smug.

US pop artist and 80′s icon James Rizzi died on the 29th of December aged 61. A prolific designer – in 1980 he designed the cover for the first album of new wave band, the Tom Tom Club – a side project of Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. He also animated two music [...]

Opening under cover of night somewhere in Paris, four stories beneath la rue, a secret subterranean gallery in a sealed tunnel appears suddenly. …The Underbelly has been here, and if you discover this curated collection of Street Art and graffiti in the chilled dim light, you are officially lost. And lucky. The secret underground gallery [...]

German street artist Daim‘s 3D style Graffiti is the bomb. Clean slick and almost digital in appearance, Daim has spent years perfecting his art and the results show! Prints for sale and free desktop wallpapers are available at www.daim.org.

Yesterday, street artists 3D Joe & Max created the world’s largest anamorphic 3D street art in London. We’re talking 12,490 square feet, the whole painting took seven days to create. Another corporate coup, this time by Reebok – gettin’ down with the kids – in between riots and protests. Pretty… pretty meaningless… but nice all [...]

Is it true street art love? Jana + JS (perhaps the best looking couple in the street art scene) fell head over heels in love in Paris, lived and worked together in Madrid  and finally settled down in Salzburg Austria. The work of Jana & Js focuses on the post industrial landscape of France and [...]

This one’s a little too far for me but if you’re lucky enough to be sunning it in Sydney between the 4th Nov and 11th December 2011 then you won’t want to miss out on all the artists from the urban/street scene exhibiting down by the harbour on Cockatoo Island. A place packed with vast [...]

We’ve all seen light paintings, light drawings, light graffiti, whatever you want to call them, much of it has been pretty basic up until now – well perhaps besides Picasso who had a go in his day. hat’s how long they’ve been doing the rounds. A few fine examples that recently caught my eye are [...]

Slow Your Roll Show East End urban art gallery the High Roller Society has some kewl artists on their books. They’re hosting a sol show by New York’s infamous Skewville, 19 March — 24 April 2010 (Private View 18 March 7:00-10:00 pm). Skewville are  famous for their wooden “dogs” a.k.a painted wooden sneakers they threw [...]