Painting on the Wall, Cape Town

the wall that i painted in cape town recently was sponsored by the british council. the image was inspired by a picture that alexia webster took in macassar, cape town...
of protesters, women, children, men and the elderly... "backyarders" - families who live in back yards because there is no space or housing available or provided by the state. they had taken over an empty piece of land in protest...

i also chose this location because it has a certain resonance to it. as it is where the protesters gather before they march to parliament." via

I Love Paris

"A picture is worth 1,000 words." I sat for a while considering if I should describe this piece and the multi-layered meanings depicted in the painting?! The stencil and symbolism in the painting take on some heavy current topics of social, political, and racial issues just to name a few. I decided it's best for you the viewer to interpret and look at this piece and make your decision on what you feel from it. Art has the amazing ability to be interpreted on a range of 1,000+ different meanings depending on who you ask. Some of you might find this piece offensive, constructive, ironic, or just plain stupid. I want to highly encourage all of you watching this to speak up and comment about your interpretation of this stencil and issues portrayed." via

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Magic in the streets of Berlin

Jun Takahashi's UNDERCOVER boutique in Aoyama Tokyo boasts a surreal ceiling installation of thousands of lightbulbs in rolling waves...

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Plush This He Think

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Toxic Face's Kato City

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Ouch! Thunk! Yipe!

Torontoist has a terrific article on a series of site specific stencils that have appeared over the last few days on Harbord Street. Words like "OUCH!" "THUNK!" "OOF!" "YIPE!" have been painted to highlight to cyclists the deep potholes and cracks along the paths.

The stencils were done by Urban Repair Squad.

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Chicken Tikka Disasta

This is one of the creative installations of slinkachu that was featured in the 'Skullduggerous' group show. The show is in aid of the Bhopal Medical Appeal which aims to raise awareness and provide medical care for people still suffering the after-effects of the calamitous toxic gas leak that blighted the Indian city of Bhopal in 1984.

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Happy Birthday to Ghandi

Jef Aerosol, Paris via

Women Are Heroes by JR

Great job, JR and the crew!

As Seen on the Streets

Valencia

Copenhagen

Hoorn, The Netherlands

Via Wooster Collective

As Seen on the Streets: Mark Jenkins' Installations

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As Seen On the Streets: Cambodia

Awesome work done by JR via Wooster Collective

In the Subway: Manhattan

Via Wooster Collective

In the Subway: NYC

I think all subways, metros or whatever you call it should be made as public museums.

Above is the NYC's latest subway installation by the artist-twins Doug and Mike Starn. The duo explains the rhizomatic tree-subway connection of the site-specific work and the process of printing their imagery onto the tiles.

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As Seen On the Streets

HeHe's installation called "Green Cloud"

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Seen In Sevilla, On the banks of the Gadalquivir River

Street of Bristol

Via Wooster Collective

Graffiti+Animation by BLU