Lots going on in London right now, and in mural news, Shepard Fairey teamed with Migrate Art to create a new work, Rise Above Earth Justice, painted at Anlaby House, Boundary Street, Shoreditch. The project was funded by the Ford Foundation with the support of Ambassador Jane Hartley of the U.S. Embassy in London, and produced by Migrate Art, Charlotte Pyatt and Simon Butler. 

One of the greatest contributions to the art lexicon is treating street art as an active tool in understanding how we use and view public space. It has always been insufficient to simply label it as “street art” or “graffiti” and neglect the broader context in which it can be appreciated on both micro and macro levels. Nuart and the Nuart Festival, alongside curator Martyn Reed from his home base in Stavanger, Norway, have long been interested in how public space is used, who has access to it, and how art can fit into our daily lives in ways that expand our experiences and understanding of the cities we inhabit. It becomes apparent to anyone who has organized a public…

No doubt, there are a lot of mural festivals; in fact, too many, if you ask me. When the senior center starts taking field trips to see cool new graffiti on the walls of your town’s “old town,” the coolness factor of the mural festival has lost much of its… coolness. With the idea generally being to shine a light on your city via large scale art, once a few dozen walls are covered, what’s really left to do? Enter Blink Cincinnati. Instead of taking over a neighborhood and painting some Instagrammable photo-op backdrops, they decided that 40 continuous blocks and a city-wide visual, experiential showcase spanning two states well into the night is the way to make a statement.…