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graffiti
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Across Athens, Graffiti Worth a Thousand Words of Malaise
Read more: Across Athens, Graffiti Worth a Thousand Words of MalaiseATHENS — The young man climbed a 30-foot scaffold on a building in central Athens and dipped a brush into a tray of gray paint. With rapid flicks of his wrist, he outlined a haunting image: a baby with two…
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190 Bowery Street
Read more: 190 Bowery StreetI went on a graffiti tour that went through NOHO, SOHO and the Lower East Side last weekend. We saw works by street artists – Space Invader and Roa – that were remarkable. Roa had created a commissioned mural of…
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Object Orange
Read more: Object OrangeIn the “D”, “D” doesn’t really stand for “Detroit”, but “Demolition.” Take a look around and you’ll notice a great number of buildings marked on the front with a circled “D” in faint chalk. Off to the side, many of…
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Street Art Critiques Car Culture
Read more: Street Art Critiques Car CultureIn 2001, Peter Gibson, a street artist, began by painting bike additional bike lanes onto the streets in Montreal because he was tired of how cars dominated the road. This transferred into more works criticizing car culture in general. Some…
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Cliteracy
Read more: CliteracyAccording to the artist: “CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws, 2012 is mixed media project that explores a paradox; the global obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. CLITERACY is a new…
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Bon Appetit
Read more: Bon AppetitCreative Graffiti at the Urban Culture Festival in Germany By Loredana Loy A street art project by by KD Key Detail from Minsk, Belarus–created and featured at the IBUg 2013 Urban Culture Festival in Zwickau, Germany. The project is entitled…
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Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Read more: Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social changeHave you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it…
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‘Women on Walls’ campaign empower women via street art
Read more: ‘Women on Walls’ campaign empower women via street artMaha ElNabawi Amid the bleak backdrop of a revolution-riddled Egypt, a beacon of positivity shone on downtown Cairo Friday during the launch of one of the most exciting, social-conscious street art collaborations to happen this year. “Women on Walls” or…
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eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in Tunisia
Read more: eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in TunisiaLast week, Tunisia’s tallest minaret went under the brush of the country’s hottest muralist. On the Jara Mosque in his hometown of Gabes, 31-year-old eL Seed painted a verse from the Quran preaching tolerance, a message meant for Salafist Islamists…
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Two Female Graffiti Artists in Afghanistan
Read more: Two Female Graffiti Artists in AfghanistanMeet Shamsia Hassani. At age 24, she is one of Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artists. An associate professor of sculpture at Kabul University, she was first introduced to graffiti in 2010 by British artist, Chu, during a week-long course in…