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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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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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  • March 24, 2017
The Tiniest Brutalist Sculptures from 3x3x3 // BSA in Hong Kong / Dispatch 2

When you spot one of these palm-sized concrete sculptures on the street in Hong Kong they may remind you of Brutalist architecture or the dense clustering of concrete beehives like so many of this cities’ neighborhoods.

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  • March 22, 2017
SNIK, Flip-Flops, and HK Walls Going UP // BSA in Hong Kong / Dispatch 1

This week BSA and Urban Nation (UN) are in Hong Kong for the 4th edition of HKWalls to capture a very international and local mix of artists in this East/West nexus; a world-class city for art and culture, English and Cantonese, hi-tech and traditional methods – all during the enormous Art Basel week.

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  • December 7, 2016
Miami Basel/Wynwood 2016 Wrap: Parade of Eye-Popping Beauty at a Portentous Time

An embarrassment of riches in so many ways, the Wynwood Street Art and mural scene is outrageously sexy, flashy, ugly, posey, pretty, proliferate and quizzically content-free. The annual outdoor urban art visual carnival that accompanies Art Basel in Miami is full of hi/low expectation and spectacle, and it confidently delivers on both.

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