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Brooklyn Street Art

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  • December 14, 2022
Books in the MCL: Spray Nation. 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs. Martha Cooper 2022

A generous collection of newly unearthed photographs documenting New York’s golden graffiti age from one of the celebrated visual documentarians, Spray Nation expands the conversations discussing the so-called ‘birth of graffiti’ for five decades. With hundreds of pages of newly […]

  • Brooklyn Street Art
  • Education & Outreach
  • May 13, 2022
Streetart and Streetplay – “Fördern durch Spielmittel e.V.” meets Brooklyn Street Art

Global learning affects all areas of life, with the goal of initiating different and unusual learning processes: How can street art and street play contribute to this?  On the afternoon of April 29, 2022, multipliers from the field of education […]

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  • Urban Nation
  • April 23, 2018
Lisbon Part II: Where Street Art is Becoming “Urban Contemporary”

~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo ~ Street Art, graffiti, and murals are adding to the cultural character of Lisbon streets, this is undisputed. A quick tour of a museum show, a gallery exhibition, a hybrid art supply store/residency, […]

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  • April 13, 2018
The Many Faces of Lisbon on the Street

~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo ~ A Scholarly Eye On Artistic Interventions in Public Space The excitement that pours from city walls in Lisbon is palpable, an animated mix of graffiti, Street Art, murals, sculpture, and the traditional […]

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  • Brooklyn Street Art
  • January 5, 2018
A Street View From Inside the Doors of Mexico City

~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo ~ Street Art and graffiti and their relatives often go inside these days, including in Mexico City, where we recently found some interesting new intersections between urban art and contemporary art when we […]

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  • Brooklyn Street Art
  • December 23, 2017
Mexico City: Aerosol Artists, Aztecs and Magic on the Street

~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo ~ Every city has its own particular energy; it’s own articulated rhythm, its own unique chaos. Mexico City’s is full of flourish and aspiration and fascination for the international new, while firmly rooted […]

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  • June 8, 2017
1UP Crew Hits Front of Urban Nation

There are two things we never expect to see in our lives here on the streets when looking for new Street Art and graffiti. One is a live unicorn walking down the street twirling a hula hoop on its horn and farting glitter.

  • Brooklyn Street Art
  • Project M
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  • May 26, 2017
BSA Images Of The Week from “We Broke Night”, PM/12, and the Street

This week in Berlin we had the chance to meet so many great folks as a result of the final Urban Nation events before September’s opening of the museum.

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  • Project M
  • PROJECT M/12
Evan Pricco Curates “What In The World” at Urban Nation for PM/12

A new exhibition in Berlin’s neighborhood of Schöneberg epitomizes one of the central schisms that has vibrated through Street Art and graffiti for years: the question of where to draw boundaries between these two scenes.

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  • March 30, 2017
HONG KONG Re-cap: HKwalls Makes New Paths for Urban Art

Go East Young Woman! That’s where you’ll discover dynamic graffiti and Street Art and murals these days thanks in part to last weeks’ HKwalls festival, now in it’s fourth year.

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