Street art
Gaëtan Tarantino: ‘graffiti artists are normal people, not hooligans’
He escaped prison and fines, sleeps and breathes graffiti and his NGO holds Brussels’ annual graffiti event: how the 32-year-old from Marseille, who once worked in air-conditioning, cheers up gloomy Belgian neighbourhoods with art that emerges from concrete
street art, belgium, brunch, brussels, graffiti, art, culture
Cuba: backstreet with an escape route
In the first of our ‘rock and backpack’ series, we discover Havana - the cultural centre of a Cuba in which everyone has the ability to produce something, but few express themselves
street art, dance, havana, tourism, cuba, latin america, leonid kuchma
Mister Cat graffiti: from Paris to Sarajevo
The Mister Cat phenomenon falls somewhere between anonymous marketing and ‘involuntary communication’. Spotted on rooftops from Geneva to New York, the feline seduced passers-by before moving on to museums
street art, europe, frankfurt, museum, amsterdam, germany, culture
Eboy: Berlin's ‘godfathers of pixel’
London, Cologne, Venice, Tokyo: the German design pixel group pixelate city visions and hail themselves as a jazz band. They are guilty of simply improvising the definitive concept of ‘urbanity’
street art, interview, berlin, pixel, design, germany, culture
Artists in arms
Politics is not the only thing to have changed in Poland since the fall of communism. Maria Staszkiewicz investigates the underground artists trying to bring a little perspective to Polish lives.
street art, contemporary art, youth, belarus, central and eastern europe, politics, society
