Streets: Eduardo Kobra (Brazil)
After making hitting both coasts of the US with his mural work (New York & Los Angeles), Eduardo Kobra has returned home for a new large scale project in Brazil. The 52 meter tall piece covers the...
View ArticleOvertime: Feb 4 – Feb 10
Overtime stories of the week: Quint Contemporary Art gallery has new editions available by Kelsey Brookes. Unnamed collector finds what is claimed to be the "head" of Courbet's The Origin of the World....
View ArticleStreets: Invader (Paris)
After filling the Jonathan LeVine booth (covered) with his tiled works during Basel Week Miami, Invader has returned to the streets in his home city of Paris recently with this new piece. Again taking...
View ArticleStreets: Herakut – The Giant Storybook Project (Part II)
Back in November, we shared with you a longstanding project that street muralists Herakut have been working on called The Giant Storybook Project. Continuing their plan for creating a children's book...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13 (Part I)
With POW WOW 2013 in full swing, AM made the rounds yesterday to check out the progress as murals were going up all around the Kakaʻako district in Honolulu. Some of the artists featured at work in...
View ArticleOpenings: JR @ Watarium Museum (Tokyo)
We recently gave you a sneak peek at French "photograffeur" JR as he worked feverishly to set up his first solo museum exhibition at Tokyo's Watari Musuem of Contemporary Art. This past weekend, the...
View ArticleStudio Visit: Melissa Haslam –“Floating Garden” @ LeBasse Projects
Returning to the botanical imagery that she has worked on in the past, painter Melissa Haslam (featured) will be opening a show at LeBasse Projects on March 2nd. Entitled Floating Garden, the new body...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13 (Part II)
After taking you through the first set of public murals for POW WOW 2013, here is now a look work from another group of artists. This time around, we have in-progress photos from Meggs x Phibs (above),...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13: Dabs Myla x 123Klan x Slick x Askew x Roid
As this year's POW WOW draws to a close this weekend, murals that artists have been working on all week are nearing completion. We'll be bringing you a look at many of these pieces soon, starting first...
View ArticleOvertime: Feb 11 – Feb 17
More stories from the week ending Feb 17: Richard Jackson makes his mark on OCMA as his long-awaited retrospective opens this weekend. The LA Times profiles the artist. RIP: Richard Artschwager dies at...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13: Nychos x Jeff Soto Mural
After a relaxing week in Hawaii filled with art, great food, and friends we haven't seen in awhile, it's time to share with you photos of some more of the murals that went up for POW WOW 2013. One of...
View ArticleStreets: How & Nosm (San Francisco)
AM caught up with How & Nosm in San Francisco just as they were completing their piece on the corner Hyde & Turk in a gated parking lot in the Tenderloin. The New York-based twins have been...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13: Faith47
South African power couple Faith47 and DAL were one of the many duos that were in town for POW WOW this last week. We'll start with the delicate work of Faith first with photos of her mural The Silence...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13: Yoskay Yamamoto, Jeff Hamada, Wu Yue, and Andrea Wan
Another mural we watched go up during POW WOW Hawaii was a joint effort from Yoskay Yamamoto, Jeff Hamada, Wu Yue, and Andrea Wan. Situated next to a small park in the Kaka'ako district, the piece...
View ArticleOvertime: Feb 18 – Feb 24
More stories from the week ending Feb 24: It turns out some of Charles Krafft's work was not supposed to be ironic after all, and he shockingly appears to be a white nationalist who believes Holocaust...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13: Nychos
After collaborating on an epic wall with Jeff Soto (covered) and painting a piece at the Lana Lane Studios headquarters for POW WOW Hawaii, Nychos took time to work on a mural of a more personal...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13: DAL
Joining his wife and partner in art Faith47 in Hawaii for this year's POW WOW was the South Africa-based DALeast. Only a few hundred feet away from where Faith painted her piece, DAL got up on the side...
View ArticleStreets: Slinkachu (London)
Recently, street sculptor & photographer Slinkachu was asked to participate 20 Years of War Child, a new exhibition celebrating 20 years of the charity's (War Child) work. He created three...
View ArticleStreets: Blu (Rome)
We haven't heard much from Italian street muralist Blu recently, but hopefully this new mural he just painted in Rome is a sign of things heating up for the prolific artist. The piece featuring...
View ArticlePOW WOW ’13: Kamea Hadar x Rone
Another mural created for POW WOW Hawaii by Kamea Hadar and Rone (see his first mural here) was finished up after the week ended. Combining the local talents of Hadar and Rone's skills from down under,...
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