Latest Street art Stories
#Besomebody, a social media-driven movement reaching more than 25 countries, now "tagging the world" with a multi-continent Graffiti Expedition AUSTIN, Texas, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- #Besomebody, the fastest growing Motivational Movement in the world, with online content reaching 1.5 Million people in more than 25 countries every week, is embarking on a six-week, global graffiti expedition that will take their inspirational message to the streets. To view the multimedia assets...
LOS ANGELES, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest street art locations in Los Angeles and New York are the galleries for artist Mike McNeilly and Bubblehead Games. Bubblehead's "Cruel World" just imaged on the Sofitel on the Avenue of Arts & Design, the gateway into West Hollywood & Beverly Hills by artist Mike McNeilly. In a world where the people seek the help of superheroes like Iron Man, Superman and Batman, Bubblehead has enlisted in the game against evil. She was...
MIAMI, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TIMESCAPES, a five-story mixed-media mural created by South Florida's New World School of the Arts (NWSA), by college visual artists Jeffrey Noble and Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo, was recently unveiled during a chic VIP reception for select arts enthusiasts and community luminaires at Miami's Sagamore Hotel. The second artistic project commissioned from NWSA by the Cricket Taplin Collection, Timescapes is a large-scale...
Artist Takes MONOPOLY Money for Art, Paints Oscar Winner's Car as Game Piece LOS ANGELES, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cory Allen Contemporary Art (CACA) announces that L.A. street artist ALEC Monopoly will bring the game of MONOPOLY to life at LAB ART Gallery in Los Angeles, where the artist plans to sell one of his popular pieces for MONOPOLY money and create a designer game piece with Actor Adrien Brody's '64 Pontiac Catalina. "Park Place," ALEC Monopoly's first solo show in...
MIAMI, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- World renowned Art Basel, the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas, heads back to South Florida for a supreme exhibition of our world's most exquisite and prominent artists. Among the many uniquely special satellite events during Miami's Art Week is the launch of Heineken's Open Your World Mural Project, which has been carefully curated to include some of the most talented veterans in...
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Art.com Inc., the world's easiest place to discover, experience and buy art, and the Art Production Fund (APF), a public art initiative dedicated to producing and presenting ambitious art projects, have teamed up to bring a unique series of contemporary works by well-known and emerging artists to a broader audience. The WOW (Works on Whatever) collection features canvas edition artworks produced by artists such as Jasper Johns and...
LONDON, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Once a temporary art form found in towns and cities, urban artists are now translating their graffiti based designs onto paper to create art prints [http://www.artrepublic.com/prints.html ] for the home. Art dealer and gallery, artrepublic, has selected five great urban artists with prints to own in 2012. 1) Pure Evil Pure Evil creates urban art using popular culture, celebrity and social issues as inspiration. As well as...
LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Director Eddie Donaldson - The Marketing Division Worldwide LLC and the EACA Alley Association is excited to bring Hollywood an independent outdoor street market created for artists by artists. The Cahuenga Corridor Street Market will take place every Sunday in Hollywood's newest addition, the EACA alley from 10am to 7pm starting Sunday, May 6th 2012. The street market's goal is to create a commerce environment for like-minded artisans....
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1, 2011 Double D's (DD$) is a trio of artists that wildly construct the language of L.A.'s transitional experience. Established in 2005, their work addresses sex, drugs, fame and Hollywood idealism. They ask what it means to be iconic, fabulous, and cool - most importantly, why it even matters. Each piece developed by DD$ is a three way collaboration. A piece is passed from artist to artist over the course of hours, days or weeks, before completion. DD$'s work...
BRISTOL, England, November 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A Bristol-based events company was stuck with creative ideas for a day out and (that dreaded phrase) 'bonding exercise'. They took inspiration from one of the City's best-loved artists. The sentence 'we're going on a work day out' can strike fear into the heart of the bravest soul. We've all spent a day 'team-building' (wearing the same t-shirt), 'bonding' (being shot at by a sociopath with a paintball gun), and...
