Projects tagged "street art"

Acción Poética
Practitioner:
Acción Poética
Date:
Feb 25 1996
The Acción Poética movement is a literary phenomenon that began in Monterrey, Mexico in 1996. It was founded by Mexican poet Armando Alanis Pulido and involves painting and intervening abandoned walls in cities with fragments of poetry. The content is usually love poems or optimistic phrases. Also, some phrases refer to the current situation in the cities (though one of their rules is to not talk about politics or religious beliefs).
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Color-Cycling
Practitioner:
Narcelio Grud
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Ciclo-Color 
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The Bushwick Collective transforms neighborhood
Practitioner:
Joe Ficalora, The Bushwick Collective
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Conceived and curated by Bushwick native Joe Ficalora, the Bushwick Collective has evolved into an extraordinary open-air gallery since its first mural surfaced in 2011. Attracting a wondrous array of local, national and international artists, it showcases first-rate street art -- from legendary Blek Le Rat stencils to huge collaborative walls by such world-renowned artists as Case Ma'Claim and Pixel Pancho.
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Jay Shells Drops "Rap Quotes," His Most Site-Specific Street Art Project Yet
Practitioner:
Jay Shells
Date:
Mar 25 2013
JAY SHELLS DROPS “RAP QUOTES,” HIS MOST SITE-SPECIFIC STREET ART PROJECT YET By Aymann Ismail | March 25, 2013 - 12:30PM After schooling New Yorkers on etiquette via numerous unsanctioned interventions, artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.”
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We Declare The World as Our Canvass
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Street Art Utopia
Date:
Mar 13 2013
The website 'Street art utopia' has an amazing collection of pictures of street art from Belgium, NYC, to Brazil and Israel Palestine. Talented people sharing their art publicly for the streets and the world to see! Activism: reclaiming a public space, maybe...not sure, but it is public art with various messages...
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The Illuminator Project
Practitioner:
The Illuminator
Date:
Feb 8 2015
Typical mediums of street art include spray paint, stickers and stencils. But mobilized digital media projection has become the latest tool in some activist's artilleries. Vanguards of this innovative technique include members of The Illuminator project. Created in March 2012, The Illuminator is a cargo van equipped with audio and video projection capabilities.
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eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in Tunisia
Practitioner:
eL Seed
Date:
Sep 19 2012
Last 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 who protested "provocative" pieces at an art exhibition earlier this summer.
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Above's Blood Diamond
Practitioner:
ABOVE
Date:
Apr 10 2012
Africa has had a devastating history of blood diamond wars. Blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and then sold to finance an invading army's war efforts, usually in Africa where more than two-thirds of the worlds diamonds are extracted. This site specific social / political word play was painted on the exterior wall of Johannesburg's largest diamond trader Jewel City.
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Hijabizing Dolce & Gabbana
Practitioner:
Princess Hijab
Date:
Oct 18 2011
Princess Hijab is an anonymous female street artist working primarily in Paris, France. Her art centres on veiling the main characters of subway advertisements using black paint. Few facts are known about Princess Hijab.
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Reverse Graffiti
Practitioner:
Paul 'Moose' Curtis
Date:
Nov 29 2008
Reverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime.
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On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens.
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Feb 26 2015
On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens. British street artist Banksy has posted pictures and video of works made during a trip to the war-torn Gaza Strip. One shows a figure reminiscent of Rodin’s “The Thinker” — though, set in a still-standing doorway surrounded by nothing but rubble, the figure seems more distraught than contemplative.
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It Looks Like Bansky Has Struck the Wall of England’s Reading Prison, Which Once Detained Oscar Wilde, in His Latest Mural
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Mar 1 2021
"It appears that Banksy has struck again, this time painting the brick wall of the former Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, where Oscar Wilde was jailed for two years over his “indecent” affair with Lord Alfred Douglas.
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The Wack Donalds Project and Mr One Teas
Practitioner:
Mr One Teas
Date:
Apr 13 2011
A French illustrator/painter/graphic designer from Nice who also has had shows in galleries in Monaco, Mr OneTeas is known to some as a graffiti artist who samples pop culture on his canvasses and appropriates commonly recognizable images of Hollywood names like Liz Taylor, Princess Grace, and Alfred Hitchcock. He also presents 80s television culture ironically (spotlighting Gary Coleman, Alf, Mr.
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ANZ is Out of Order Campaign - Grassroots action against ANZ Bank in Australia
Practitioner:
Katso, Climate Change Activists
Date:
Feb 6 2013
On the 6th February 2013, 40 activists across 6 states plastered 110 ANZ ATMs with 'Out of Order' notices, sharing them on social media the following day. The objective was to use a hoax style action to exploit mainstream media sensitivity around ANZ Bank's unethical funding of fossil fuel projects that had been generated by Jonathan Moylan's Whitehaven Hoax a week earlier.
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Queer Crisis (4.25.2014)
Practitioner:
Queer Crisis Flash Collective
Date:
Jun 24 2014
An intervention created by the April 25 2015 Queer Crisis Collective organized by the Helix Queer Performance Network (HQPN), and part of an ongoing queer resistance project mentored by Avram Finkelstein. Over a period of 2 weekends, 8 artists met at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics to design a creative intervention during Pride month in NYC.
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Murales Imborrables
Practitioner:
Murales Imborrables
Date:
Mar 20 2015
In March this year, less than 100 days since he took office again, Luis Castañeda Lossio, Mayor of Lima, announced that the Municipality would remove the street art murals painted on the walls of downtown Lima’s historical city streets. “Lima has to recover all the architectural quality it has. They have chosen us and we will comply with the obligation that the population has consigned us,” said the mayor.
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Google Street Art Project
Practitioner:
Google
Date:
Mar 18 2015
Google entered the art game in 2011 with the introduction of its Art Project, working with 17 museums and expanding further to over 150 institutions in 2012. Last June, Google added 5,000 images of street art from around the world to the project and today it has announced that it will be doubling that number to 10,000 with the launch of the second edition of its Street Art Project.
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Empty the Cages
Practitioner:
Dan Witz, PETA
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Fifty-six-year-old Dan Witz — who originally hails from Chicago but lives in Brooklyn — has been producing street art in New York since the seventies. And not just any street art. Wondrous works that trick the eye and often elude passersby altogether. Oh, but when one realizes what he or she is seeing, it’s pure revelation.
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iPod's Dirty Secrete
Practitioner:
The Neistat Brothers
Date:
Apr 24 2003
The Neistat Brothers first attracted public attention in 2003 with their blatantly critical work, iPod’s Dirty Secret. After being refused a replacement battery for an 18-month old iPod, [they] took to the streets of Manhattan on their bikes to sabotage iPod’s omnipresent advertising.
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Bill Cosby... Just Admit It
Practitioner:
FLOOD
Date:
Feb 8 2015
Actor and comedian Bill Cosby is a household name to the American public. But in the last year alone, Cosby's name has been tarnished by decades of hidden scandal. Allegations against Cosby as a sexual predator have recently gained new media traction. Much of this attention was spurred over Twitter thanks to a Cosby "meme generator". The generator allowed for visual representation of past predatory allegations against Mr. Cosby.
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Pothole Activism
Practitioner:
Baadal Nanjundaswamy
Date:
Jun 20 2015
Baadal Nanjundaswamy, a Bangalore based artist who works at an advertising agency uses his art to embarrass the civic authorities into fixing the potholes that litter the roads of Bangalore.
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Face 2 Face
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Mar 4 2007
In 2007, anonymous French photographer JR embarked on the Face2Face project - the largest unauthorized photo exhibition ever conceived. JR and his collaborator Marco engaged Israelis and Palestinians employed in the same profession to be photographed making funny faces. They then enlarged the photos to grand proportions and wheat pasted juxtaposed portraits onto both sides of the security Separation Wall and in surrounding cities.
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Women Are Heros
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Oct 1 2009
Film correlating to the project of the same name by JR - a french street artist who works with large scale photography and wheat-paste.
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Street Art Critiques Car Culture
Practitioner:
Peter Gibson/Roadworth
Date:
Nov 30 2000
In 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 of his work includes a crosswalk turned into a large footprint and lines on the road transformed into life lines.
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After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here
Practitioner:
Artists civilians in Myanmar
Date:
Feb 16 2021
"Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept to the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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