Tag: street art

“The Street is in Play” – The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti

The street is in play - Banksy - Manhattan, Oct. 2013 Talk about good timing. Right on the heels of  Banksy's month-long residency in New York City comes the release of the definitive survey of international street art,  The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti. Published by Yale University Press and compiled by Rafael Schacter the book is organized geographically by country and city and showcases more than 100 of today’s most important street artists. It also provides the essential historical context  of the works and offers contributions by the foremost authorities on street art and graffiti. [caption id="attachment_3113"...

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Wall Story

Mobstr, a street artist in the UK, has found an interesting way to tell a story.In "The Story" Mobstr  paints a sentence on an outer wall of a construction site and waits until is is painted over "to preserve the local cities aesthetic" before he adds his next sentence.Pretty cool.Thanks to Visual News for the lead 

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