Illegal art

Banksy’s Rage, The Flower Thrower – Everything you need to know

Paintings, Street Art / 7 minutes of reading

Rage, the Flower Thrower Rage, the Flower Thrower or Love is in the Air is one of the most iconic stencils by Banksy. It shows a masked Palestinian throwing a bouquet of flowers. Banksy is known for displaying his works out in the open for the public to view, in places such as walls in …

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Eric Lafforgue received a lifetime ban from North Korea for these photos

Who is Eric Lafforgue? Eric Lafforgue is a French photographer who traverses the world. He has always been fascinated by the world countries, especially those in remote areas, and spent time in Africa when he was about ten years old, Yemen, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. He started his photographing career in 2006, and soon newspapers and …

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How did Banksy’s Girl with Balloon end up in a shredder?

Murals, Paintings, Street Art / 10 minutes of reading

Who is Banksy? Banksy, according to some sources, was born in 1974 in Bristol, United Kingdom. He is one of the world’s most secretive artists. Most of his fans don’t know how he looks likes. Over the years, Banksy has won over many hearts with his humorous and thought-provoking stencil works, which would appear in …

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Keith Haring’s subversive Berlin Wall mural – The story behind

Murals, Paintings / 2 minutes of reading

Embed from Getty Images As an outspoken social rights activist, Keith Haring was not one to shy away from controversy. His Berlin Wall Mural is just that – controversial and provocative. In fact, Haring himself told The New York Times that the mural was a “subversive” act that was meant to make a political …

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Keith Haring’s Crack is Wack mural – From illegal to protected

Murals, Paintings / 11 minutes of reading

Crack is Wack is regarded as the Keith Haring’s most important painting and the most iconic mural in the New York neighborhoods. When former art student Alejandro Bonilla Sr. first saw the Crack is Wack mural, he said: I saw it, and I thought: that must be a Keith Haring! That shows just how …

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Barry McGee’s tag murals – Walls covered with hundreds of red tags

Graffiti, Paintings / 5 minutes of reading

Barry McGee’s tag mural in New York When the iconic gallerist Jeffrey Deitch swapped the East Coast for West Coast, many wondered about the state of street art in New York City. Granted, the newer generation of gallerists such as Joshua Liner and Jonathan Levine had become preeminent curators with their fresh take on street …

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Revs & unusual graffiti: 200+ diary pages painted in NYC subway tunnels

Graffiti, Paintings / 3 minutes of reading

Revs in the late 1980s and early 1990s Those who grew up or lived in New York during the late 1980s and early 1990s must have seen the famous four letters that would be seen on walls all over the place; Revs. Everywhere you looked, on trash cans, telephone booths and poles, the distinct graffiti …

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Diddo’s Ecce Animal – This skull is made out of cocaine

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Ecce Animal by Dutch artist Diddo is an unusual artwork, crafted with cocaine mixed with gelatin, it was fashioned in form of a human skull. The gelatin was used to hold together the sculpture. As strange as it is, the artwork calls for a lot of questions as to what it stands for and …

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This is why Keith Haring got arrested numerous times

Graffiti, Paintings / 5 minutes of reading

3 min 21 sec Keith Haring’s subway art In the early 1980s Keith Haring created hundreds of drawings in the New York subway system. He used chalk to paint on unused advertising space, which was covered with black sheets of paper. Haring was caught and fined numerous times. Graffiti & Haring moving to New York …

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Photographer Timo Stammberger in subway tunnels without permission

Architecture, Photography / 1 minute of reading

Photography of subway tunnels world wide by the Berlin based artist

Martha Cooper shows her subway art photos in exhibition

Graffiti, Paintings / 3 minutes of reading

Photos from the exhibition opening last Saturday

Watanabe Issei - Til death do us part feat

Shocking: Beautiful ring made out of Crystal Meth

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Issei Watanabe exhibited this controversial sculpture which contains the drug crystal meth at the Pratt Institute, NYC...

Daniel Weissbach - Bangalore, India, 2012 feat

Who was Daniel ‘Tagno’ Weissbach?

Graffiti, Paintings, Street Art / 5 minutes of reading

Artist bio Daniel’ Tango’ Weissbach (1976-2020) was a Berlin-based graffiti artist who began his trade in the late 1980s. He studied at the University of Potsdam’s animation department and graduated in 2006. At the age of 12, he decided that he wanted to be an artist. Weissbach began as a graffiti and street artist before …

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