The Coronavirus Pandemic and the resulting “Stay at Home” orders are not without their upside. The bear population in Yosemite has quadrupled, noise pollution is down, the air in Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo is cleaner than ever and even the waters, now undisturbed, are clearer. In addition to those temporary benefits, the Covid-19 virus has inspired street artists all over the world to paint. Read more
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Murals in New York Raise Awareness of Child Slavery
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO), the oldest United Nations agency, teamed up with SAM (Street Art for Mankind) to pepper New York with spectacular social justice murals made by prominent street artists Clandestinos, Faith 47, Btoy, Jo di Bona, Loic Ercolessi, KinMX, Jorge Gerada, Mr Cenz and Victor Ash. Read more
Scribblitti: Narrative Murals Drawn by Artist Hu-Be
Italian illustrator Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz, aka Hu-Be, has been freehand drawing narrative murals in a project he calls Scribblitti. The ephemeral, itinerant, time-based performance combines human interaction with illustration and consists of a maximum of ten oversized artworks realized in the time span of a single month within a specific city. Read more
The Truck Art Project and Palibex Murals Highlight Urban Artists from Spain
Incredible – and Enormous – Public Portraits by Hendrik Beikirch.
Murals and Public Portraits by street artist Hendrik Beikirch. Artist Hendrik Beikrich (aka ecb) is a portrait painter and a muralist who first worked as freelance artist in Koblenz, Germany. From 1996 through 2000 he studied art education at university of Koblenz-Landau. It was in 1989 that he created his first painting using a spray can instead of a brush and he was hooked. Read more