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REPORT graffiti : Russian art group Voina boycotts Moscow contemporary art biennale

Russian art group Voina boycotts Moscow contemporary art biennale

It's not the country that you'd expect to celebrate activist art. Held until 20 October, Moscow's fourth contemporary art biennale is not exactly a step towards the freedom of expression, especially since the famous Russian protest collective are paradoxically protesting against the biennale’s 'international festival of activist art'

by Annie Rutherford @ // 14/10/11

graffiti, russian federation, moscow, moscou, contemporary art, voina, culture calendar

PORTRAIT graffiti : Gaëtan Tarantino: ‘graffiti artists are normal people, not hooligans’

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

by diane saint-réquier @ // 22/02/10

graffiti, belgium, brunch, brussels, culture, art, street art

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48 hours in Vilnius: EU capital of culture and tradition

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Berlinale film review: Exit Through The Gift Shop (2009) by Banksy

Who what? Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) is a 'pseudo-documentary' of the British graffiti artist Banksy, the street art stencil legend. Not only has his talented work brought him exorbitantly priced sales but he has remained invisible throughout - no-one has ever seen him! But the film isn't about ...

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Graffiti and other street art in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv is a very colourful city with various spaces. Some of these spaces feel more bourgeois, others feel cosy and simple. Therefore the city is a good playground for people who like to make some kind of contribution to the way the city looks like. South Tel Aviv, where ...

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Verbal attack against foreigners?

Today I read that some gang sprayed a wall of one dormitory, where foreign students of Vilnius University live, with offensive graffiti, including "dork kebab", whatever they wanted to say with it. The gang also broke a window. It seems that for some reason they wanted to do some scapegoating ...

Daiva by Daiva on wonderland

Moss-green Germany

A little bit of moss, a bottle of beer and some sugar. That is the magic mixture that should help attracting people's attention for the upcoming European Election... The German Green Party is calling on their partisans to place moss-graffitis on walls, streets and whatever comes to their minds ...

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