Graffiti around the world

personal picks from Guardian readers:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/guardianwitness-blog/gallery/2013/oct/25/graffiti-around-the-world-best-photos

Best street art of 2016 - Klimt is alive again

This is the most impressive street art piece I've seen in 2016:

A statue called "Rebirth" near the National Theatre in Prague, meticulously wrapped in a knitted robe to revive the portrait of Adele Bloch by Gustav Klimt. Besides a cool idea, one has to admire the sheer amount of work going into this...

artwork by Eva Blahova, photos by pictor

Some more photos and comments:
Socha Malejovského v róbě Goldene Adele
Praga magica - Náměstí Václava Havla
idnes photo

...the original...

Profound philosophy (or not)

photo by pictor, Marseille 2015

Take A Smile

"All taken"

Praha - Chodov

(photo by pictor)

www.takeasmile.org

Stuck On The City street art festival

Street art festival and exhibit "Stuck On The City" is now going on in Prague, until January 13.

Here are few tasters:
Vysocany - Zedz
Vysocany - Ironlak BBQ Jam
Vysocany - How&Nosm
Smichov - Honet
Kacerov - Kick The Shit Jam
Dejvice - Pasta
Zizkov - Escif

Lego tower Prague 2012

Lego tower in Prague sets the new world record (32.5 m), with the participation of yours truly...

Photo report

More links:
Lego tower
Media:
Metro, Czech TV, Tyden

Banksy takes on the Olympics

Banksy takes on the Olympics

funny colorful sticker

Here's an interesting colorful sticker, composed of letters of popular food & beverage brands. See if you can make out all of them.


Prague - Old Town, 2011
photo by pictor

dead buildings brought to life

Amazing paintings on abandoned buildings in Lisboa, made by members of the Crono project:

Crono homepage

more photos

more photos

funny graffiti

Here's a nice collection of funny pieces of graffiti and other street art:
http://lolgraff.com

10 of the Best Graffiti Artists

Colorful Art Writers: 10 of the Best Graffiti Artists

Sure, you may argue about who's in the top ten, but these images are certainly worth seeing.

[another] one wall in three years

Here's an evolution of a wall at a playground near Klirova street, Prague, CZ.



2007


2007


2008


2008


2009


All photos by pictor.

when houses come alive

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

How It Would Be If A House Was Dreaming from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

Street art in motion: the wall falls again

Some 1000 large, painted domino stones topple in the classical domino effect in Berlin. This celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that once separated the city in Western and Eastern zones.





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one wall, three years

Here are three versions of a wall at Vltavska subway station in Prague, CZ:


Oko Crew, 2007


Udo Kraft, 2008


Point, 2009

photos by pictor

story from Las Vegas

Here's an interesting story on how Las Vegas City Council fights graffiti and how a citizen fights the council that punished him for a crime he did not commit.
Thumbs up for the guy.
Las Vegas Review Journal: At odds over graffiti

big name in street art goes even bigger

Banksy, the legendary street artist from Bristol, has a huge exhibition in the city museum. Really huge. The building is filled with statues, paintings and moving installations, testifying his immense creativity and fantasy. On the funny side, the museum is run by the same City Council that for years tried to persecute Banksy for his works in the city streets...
Open until August 31, 2009.
Photo & video report
Bristol City Museum
Banksy

watch a big piece being made

This video is an inspiring track of a creative process. Watch a big 'Deer" piece by Szwedzki in the making.

OS3 Rykowisko from OS3 multimedia on Vimeo.

More details here: http://www.szwedzki.net/#graffiti

Lights in the streets

This spring, streets of Prague are illuminated by many a varied lights, thanks to the 'Transparency 2009' project. In various downtown places, light installations from six artists can be found - from love letters on the Old Town Square to mice running on the facade in Dusni Street to a dancer on the side of National Theater or a sculpture made of thousands of illuminated letters.
Here's just a small taster, more info can be found here: http://www.wartprojects.com/ex.html. But the best is to go out and check it live. Let there be light!







Jaume Plensa - We


Julian Opie - Dancer


Julian Opie - Dancer




Stephan Reusse - Mice

NamesFest

Here's a little taster of the Names street art festival that took place in Prague last fall. Full report with plenty of pictures can be found on the NamesFest website.

Incubus Project

Hitotzuki

Brad Downey

Blu

Jana+Vitche

Udo Kraft

all photos by pictor