What happens when a swanky hotel and an open-minded art gallery come together? You get a permanent outdoor installation that celebrates the art of graffiti. Currently on the wall of Mondrian SoHo are 120 photographs of New York's Lower East Side taken by Sol LeWitt in 1979.
Artist François Abélanet plays tricks on our eyes, making us believe there is a three-dimensional grass globe sitting right in...
By mixing beautiful and traditional calligraphy with the rawness and grittiness of graffiti, Niels Meulman gives a whole new way of appreciating both art forms. Meulman, also known as Shoe, is an artist, designer and art director who was born in Amsterdam and who's worked at international ad agencies like BBDO and television networks like MTV (where he was their creative director for a short period of time).
Street artist Above shot us an email about his new work in Paris.
Global Warming – Berlin, Germany One of our favorite street artists, Blu, just completed these amazing large scale murals in Europe. Using the facade of high-rise buildings as his canvas, Blu sends very relevant political messages through his works. “Global Warming” is extremely clever and features a melting iceberg in an hourglass, which is dripping water into a flooding city below.
Hyuro is an Argentinian-born street artist that is currently based out of Valencia, Spain.
One of our favorite urban interventionists, sPy, opened his debut solo show last week in his home country of Spain.
This street mural by Ben Slow and Ma o Shishu was recently completed on the streets of London. The piece is a beautiful illustration about human nature, and the intimate relationship between a mother and her child.
What is it about graffiti that separate it from all other art forms? First, it's done outside.
Leave it to Banksy to have the UK premiere of his film at a makeshift 150-seat cinema built under Waterloo...
