I’ll admit to inadvertently spending less time investigating street art in the states, inadvertently of course, compared to street art in Europe. There is clearly no need for me to state that there is ridiculously good work in cities throughout the US. But, well, I went and did it anyway… One artist that has been … Continue reading »
Over the past decade or two, street art has developed and changed to become a massive global art movement helped in no small part by the development of technology and the internet. Whereas in the past street art was truly ephemeral, websites, blogs & Facebook pages have allowed thousands (even millions) of people to discover … Continue reading »
Recently I commissioned Nick Cocozza (following our ‘Scots on Walls #1′ interview from December 2012) to design a piece of art (specifically a customised banner) for the Urban Kultur Blog Facebook page. The brief was pretty basic. The piece was to include elements of some of my favourite cities for art/music such as Berlin, Paris, … Continue reading »
Two of Scotland’s finest street artists going big in London for the Walls Project, with two very different styles. The Walls Project is described as ‘an effort to paint the World, starting with London’ organising walls for some of the world’s best street artists. It is also somewhat less impressively described as being ‘Lee on his … Continue reading »
When we were in London covering Moniker Art Fair, we noticed a few larger scale outdoor pieces from French street artist Ludo, with his distinctive greyscale and green coloured work (see the Moniker Art Fair 2012 preview article). Check out this large piece in the nearby car park at the Village Underground, along with some … Continue reading »
Found this while clearing out folders and folders of photographs from trips over the past few years. We tend not to post up new Banksy work given the massive amount of coverage they get. Not that we’ve adopted a staunch anti-Banksy mindset, but generally it feels like a re-blog of about 10,000 other re-blogs. It … Continue reading »
We first found out about Wurstbande a few months back before they launched their book “Süss aber Dumm“. Describing themselves as a creative heads collective, born in raised in Europe’s street art capital, Berlin, they are active in the fields of illustration and wall design. Their graphical style is known for naive, cute and sometimes … Continue reading »
James Bullough and Karl Addison (aka JBAK) have recently completed another large scale piece, this time not in the city of Berlin, but a little further afield. Their newest piece ‘The Fight’ sits atop a disused missile bunker a little outside of Berlin, and quite rightly is described as one of the pairs most dangerous … Continue reading »
Something a little different today – not exactly street art related, but definitely worth the detour both in terms of content and in getting to the venue! Lucie Hrnickova & Andy Cumming’s show ‘Gold Sheep’ had its opening night at one of Edinburgh’s most popular alternative art spaces, the Old Ambulance Depot. Urbankulturblog went along … Continue reading »
You might remember a few weeks ago we posted some images and a video of James Bullough‘s giants (6m tall, to be exact) painted on the inside of the Co Verlag gallery Tor 111, Berlin. Well, since then, a really nice video documenting the creations has been put together by Visual Garbage, and is most … Continue reading »
