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Category Archives: streets
Streets: Aida Wilde – Less Homes 4U
London based artist AIDA WILDE continues her interventions denouncing the rapid gentrification of London’s iconic and creative areas like Hackney Wick. Her powerful text based street interventions incorporate social media terminology as a tool for activism. Earlier in September, during … Continue reading
Posted in London, Street, streets
Tagged Activism, aida wilde, Croydon Rise Festival, Gentrification
Giant Turtle mural by Hisham Echafaki
We are pleased to share a new project we have been collaborating with London based artist Hisham Echafaki in Saint-Aubin Chateau-Neuf in Val d’Ocre, France. Initially known for his intricate surrealist compositions and three dimensional paintings (covered here), the contemporary … Continue reading
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Tagged Butterfly Art News, Hisham Echafaki, Mural
La Rochelle: Graff on Tour(s) with Lek & Sowat
The Towers of La Rochelle, managed by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN), are currently presenting Graff on Tour(s) until 25 June 2018 with a focus on historical graffiti as well as artistic interventions by contemporary artists ( see our … Continue reading
La Rochelle (FR): Graffs on Tour(s) with the CMN
The Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN) is France’s biggest cultural and tourism operator. Its mission is to preserve cultural heritage and provide public access to 100 national historical monuments throughout France. After having archived and documented graffiti on the national … Continue reading
Paris: D*Face ‘Turncoat’ Mural
British artist D*Face (covered) has just completed his second mural in Paris, at 155 boulevard Vincent Auriol, part of the ongoing open air museum in the 13th District with Street Art 13 Mural program. This is the mural version of … Continue reading
Paris: ESCIF ‘Open Borders’ at Palais de Tokyo
From May 4th, Palais de Tokyo in Paris will pay tribute to the history and legacy of the May 1968 events with a intervention by Escif, where he reproduced some of the famous writings from that period of student revolts. … Continue reading
Posted in Paris, streets
Tagged ESCIF, Hugo Vitrani, Lasco, May68, Mural, Open Borders, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Project
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Crystal Ship : New murals by Telmo & Miel (NL) in Belgium
For this year’s edition of the Crystal Ship Festival Dutch duo Telmo Miel created two murals in Ostend, Belgium. Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann are the names behind Telmo Miel artistic duo, based in Rotterdam. We last saw them in London … Continue reading
Posted in Festival, Ostend, Street, streets
Tagged 2018, Crystal Ship, Ostend, Telmo Miel
Paris: Street Art Guide
Paris is an open air museum! Looking up, we can discover amazing pieces from graffiti writing, humourous stencils , poetic collages or monumental murals. We take you through the best locations in Paris to enjoy art in the streets from … Continue reading
Posted in Paris, streets
Tagged Paris, Street art
Banksy’s ‘Alternativity’ in Bethlehem
Elusive artist Banksy is back at his “Walled Off Hotel” in the city of Bethlehem in Palestine with a new stunt to celebrate the festive season with a “festive spectacular” titled Alternativity, and continue to raise media awareness in one … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, Street, streets
Tagged Alternativity, Banksy, Bethlehem, Danny Boyle, Separation wall
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Paris: Urban Week in La Defense
For its 4th edition the Urban Week festival returns to the business district of La Defense in Paris from 20 -23 September 2017 with a series of events celebrating street culture from street art, music, sports and food. Through the project … Continue reading
Posted in Paris, streets
Tagged Belin, Brusk, Celine Neveux, Cenz, La Defense, Mr Cenz, Paris, Street art, Urban Week
London: Banksy pays tribute to JM Basquiat
Ahead of the upcoming Museum show about Jean Michel Basquiat at the Barbican opening this week, elusive artist Banksy painted a series of murals on the adjacent walls leading the museum and released pictures on his Instagram account. The first … Continue reading
Berlin: ‘UNSTOPPABLE’ Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art
After several years in the making, the URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART will open its doors to the public on 16 September 2017. The Museum is literally ‘UNSTOPPABLE’ ,not even by the police… This center for exhibitions, research and exchange … Continue reading
London streets: Fanakapan
Street artist Fanakapan recently completed series of murals in the streets of East London. Using a shiny silver inflatable 3D style, the artist painted a silver balloon dog, a duo of clown characters holding a smiley balloon , and a tribute to Peanuts fictional characters by Charles … Continue reading
Streets: Banksy Brexit mural in Dover
When Banksy confirmed on Instagram a new mural in Dover last Sunday, it created an internet frenzy (covered). We popped by to have a closer look at the biggest unauthorised work by the elusive artist in the UK . As usual … Continue reading
Streets in France: Recognize! Vote!
With the historical Presidential election in France divided with candidates including Far Right, we followed anonymous activist artist < + + as he campaigned prolifically as the 12th candidate. His pasters feature his signature peaceful and poetic futuristic creatures and guardians of an imaginary micronation, … Continue reading
Streets: New Banksy in Dover
As the UK heads towards a general election and Britain prepares to leave the EU, a three-storey version of the European Union flag appeared painted on to a residential building, on Saturday morning, near the ferry port off the A20 … Continue reading
Magic City – The Art of the Street comes to Munich
After its successful first instalment in Dresden, ‘MAGIC CITY – THE ART OF THE STREET‘ is now coming to the Olympia Hall in Munich, opening on the 13th April 2017. This one of kind touring and evolving exhibition, built as … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, streets
Tagged Magic City, Munich
Dresden: ‘Monument’ to Aleppo sparks emotional debate
A Syrian war memorial is currently dividing Dresden, itself a symbol of the ravages of war. ‘Monument’, featuring three buses standing upright, was erected in February 2017 next to the famous baroque Frauenkirche, which was initially devastated by Allied bombs … Continue reading
Paris: Invader PA_1266
In parallel to his current show ‘Hello My Game is’ at Musee en Herbe (covered) , French artist Space Invader is back to the streets of Paris with a new large mosaic featuring a self portrait in action, masked and … Continue reading
Posted in Paris, Street, streets
Tagged Hello my game is..., Invader, Musee en Herbe, Paris, PA_1266, Space Invader
Toulouse: #Creve Hivernale / Decembrrrr 016
December 2016. A wasteland surrounded by barbed wire with a view on passing trains, home to travellers and less fortunate people. This is not a picture taken in a distant country, but actually in the center of Toulouse, France. With … Continue reading
Posted in Street, streets, Toulouse
Tagged A4 Putevie, ANNLOR CODINA, BERTRAND FRAYSSE, Butterfly, CLAIRE SAUVAGET, Creve Hivernale, DON QUICKSHOT, Dran, JEAN DENANT, LURK WARM, MADEMOISELLE KAT, Manuel Pomar, MARDI NOIR, Mathieu Tremblin, MOLO MOLO, NADIA VON FOUTRE, NATALIE SVIT-KONA EIFYRAN, SID POLIEKOFF, SOPHIE BACQUIE LUCIE LAFLORENTIE, Tilt, UPGRAYYDD RECIDIVE
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Streets: Invader Pink Invasion (Toulouse)
Invader recently completed his first invasion wave of Toulouse, with Ten space invaders made with various shades of pink as a tribute to the town nicknamed ‘Pink City’ due to the pinkish terracotta bricks used in its architecture.. Toulouse is the 66th city to be invaded and … Continue reading
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Tagged Pink Invasion, Space Invader, Street art, Toulouse
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Toulouse: Miss Van for Rose Beton
Miss Van is back to Toulouse with a new mural for the Rose Beton Festival (covered here). ‘La symphonie des songes’ mural features her signature sensual female character in a dreamlike landscape playing with colourful folklore masks from various continents, transporting … Continue reading
Toulouse: Ben Eine for Rose Beton
UK artist Ben Eine recently created a new mural with his signature font on one of the walls of the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse for the Rose Beton Festival. The colourful mural stating ‘STORYTELLING’ is already the favorite amongst … Continue reading
Toulouse: POES and JO BER for Rose Beton
French artists POES and JO BER just completd this new mural for the ROSE BETON Festival in Toulouse, Southern France. They continue their collaboration like they recently did in Marrakech (covered) with a playful storyline about the Epic of Gilgamesh and … Continue reading
Preview : ROSE BETON Festival (Toulouse)
We are pleased to partner with the ROSE BETON Festival in Toulouse (FR), curated by la Mairie de Toulouse and the 50Cinq. The second edition of the festival is paying tribute to Graffiti, with a selection of 14 international artists. Le Château … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, streets, Toulouse
Tagged Butterfly Art News, butterflyartnews, graffiti, Preview, Rose Beton, Toulouse
Marrakech Biennale: 360 m2 mural by POES and JO BER
For the Educational Programme of the Marrakech Biennale, French artists POES and JO BER just completed the largest mural in a mixed school in Morocco, painting a monumental 360 sq meters. For the past four years, Ryane Abdelmouhcine, Headmaster of Tariq … Continue reading
Streets: Mr Cenz (London)
We bumped into Mr Cenz as he was painting a brand new mural in Soho London. Away from his signature female portraits, this new work features an oniric landscape. Check some pics of the work in progress below. It can … Continue reading
Streets: Tracing Morocco with Hendrik ECB Beikirch
We first encountered the work of German artist Hendrik Beikirch aka ECB last year in Toulouse where he completed a large scale monochrome portrait of a Maroccan woman for Mr Freeze Festival (covered). … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Marrakech, streets, Toulouse
Tagged Beikrich, ECB, Hendrik, Jardin Rouge, Montresso Foundation, Toulouse, Tracing Morocco
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London: Space Invader – Wave 18
French artist Space Invader has just returned to London since 2013 for a 18th wave of invasion. As part of an art commission for the London Games Festival organised by Film London, 12 new artworks have appeared on iconic buildings … Continue reading
Streets: Banksy – Les Miserables (London)
As mentionned earlier (see here) Banksy created a new artwork in London on Saturday night. As usual location is key and the new stencil appeared on the corner of a very busy road of Knightsbridge, surrounded by lots of CCTV … Continue reading
Posted in London, Street, streets
Tagged Banksy, Calais, Cosette, French Embassy, Jungle, Miserables
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Streets: Banksy in London
A new stencil by Banksy highlighting the use of teargas in the “Jungle” refugee camp in Calais has appeared on a building opposite the French Embassy in London. The stencil on board features a CS can on the floor spreading a teargas … Continue reading
Streets: ESPO – Love Letters Brooklyn to be demolished
Back in 2011, we were in Brooklyn as street artist Steve Powers ESPO was painting his monumental ‘LOVE LETTERS BROOKLYN’ (covered here) on the facade of the Macy’s parking garage. As an ode to the borough of Brooklyn and its … Continue reading
London: Lumiere Festival
During four evenings from the 14th-17th of January, visitors could experience installations from the world’s most exciting artists working with light at across 30 locations in the UK capital for the Lumiere London Festival. Architectural landmarks are being coloured with … Continue reading
London: Damien Hirst Christmas Tree
Next to the Connaught Hotel in London Mayfair stands a 30 feet tall Christmas tree adorned with flying doves and unusual decorations: snowmen formed of giant pills, medical instruments, scissors, syringues, scalpels… This is the work of controversial artist … Continue reading
Posted in London, Street, streets
Tagged Christmas Tree, Connaught, Damien Hirst, London
Streets: Banksy in Calais
After Dismaland, Banksy continues to hightlight the migrant crisis and horrific living conditions of Syrian refugiees in the Jungle of Calais by painting a portrait of Steve Jobs, reminding us that he is the son of a Syrian migrant. Steve … Continue reading
Paris: Shepard Fairey ‘Earth Crisis’ at the Eiffel Tower
Shepard Fairey unveiled his latest work “Earth Crisis”: a giant sphere suspended between the first and second floor of the Eiffel Tower, a call to action to address the global environmental crisis. Visible from November 20 to 26th, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Paris, streets, Videos
Tagged COP21, Earth Crisis, Eiffel Tower, Galerie Itinerrance, Paris, Shepard fairey
London Streets: El Seed @ Shubbak Festival
For the Shubbak Festival, A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, Cedar Lewison invited French Tunisian ‘calligraffiti’ artist eL Seed to paint his first UK commission on the wall of Village Underground in London Shoreditch. We previously seen his work in … Continue reading
London Streets: Ana Marietta new mural
Puerto Rican born, Houston based artist Ana Marietta is currently in London and just finished painting a new mural in Brick Lane featuring her surrealistic animal universe. See more pics here
Toulouse: 100TAUR new mural for the Dominicans
A surreal encounter between French graffiti artist 100Taur and the Dominicans: for the celebration of the 800th Anniversary of the Order of Preachers , founded in Toulouse (FR), the Dominicans asked lowbrow artist 100TAUR to create a 100 square meters mural … Continue reading
Malaga: Remed & Okuda at MAUS 2015
For the second edition of the MAUS festival in Malaga (Malaga Arte Urbane en el Soho) curated by Fer Francés, many international artists have been invited to paint in the Soho district and along the Guadalmedina river. Remed and Okuda painted … Continue reading
Toulouse: Open Summer Festival
For the 4th year running, the Open Summer Festival invited twenty international artists in Toulouse at the new creative hub Cinquante Cinq / Espace Cobalt. Outside the exhibition space, guests enjoyed live painting sessions with a Graffiti Jam, but also … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, Street, streets, Toulouse
Tagged 100taur, Cinquantecinq, graffiti, Katre, Mister Freeze, Open Summer jam, Reso, Tilt, Toulouse
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London streets : Cranio
Brazilian artist Cranio continues his invasion in the streets of London. He recently painted his signature characters in Brick Lane. View the full set of pics here
London Streets: May Day Festivities
With the long May Bank Holiday week end, a new royal baby and many international artists in town, there was a lot to celebrate in London. On the Southbank with the Streets of Spain Festival organised by Campo Viejo for … Continue reading
Posted in London, streets
Tagged Butterflyartnews.com, Campo Viejo, Cranio, Jim Vision, Okuda, Remed, Waleska Nomura
Berlin: Urban Nation PM/7 – Part 2
In parallel to the windows and facade they decorated with their Persons of Interest (see here) 12 Brooklyn based artists were given carte blanche to decorate the walls of the Urban Nation Haus for a pop up show in Berlin, … Continue reading
Posted in Berlin, Shows, streets
Tagged Aida Bragstarr, Andreas Englund Icy & Sot, Berlin, Brooklyn Street Art, BSA, Butterfly, Case, Chris Stain, Dain, David Walker, Don Rimx, DotDotDot, El Sol 25, Esteban Del Valle, Gaia, Herakut, Jaime Rojo, MACCLAIM, Mark Rigney, NeverCrew, NohJColey, Onur Dinc, Reka, Schwarzmaler, Specter, Steven P. Harrington, Strøk, Swoon, Urban Nation, Vermibus
