Hasta La Ideas

A number of street art imagery found throughout Africa have surfaced on the web—particularly from one particular Flickr group that speculates that the pieces are the work of none other than Banksy. A few weeks back, we issued a post that featured the largest exhibition of Banksy’s work to date, currently on display at the Bristol Museum. You can view the image shown above, and the entire collection of the enigmatic artist’s work right here. Flickr user Olly C weighs in on his contribution to African cityscapes:

“I’ve seen this one in the flesh. Its in the suburbs of Bamako in Mali, West Africa. Banksy was there about 4-5 months ago. Sadly this has been partially painted over, Peaches Geldoff is no more and somebody has added a flower to the collection tin. There’s also a few local tags scribbled on the same wall.

There are a handful in Mali, stretching from Bamako to Timbuktu. Their locations are still unpublicised as far as I can tell.”

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Dig this eco-friendly piece produced by Edina Tokodi. It is made entirely of living, breathing plants. The piece currently hangs on the rooftop of Green Spaces NY in Brooklyn, and will be relocated to a public space in the weeks to come.

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Detail Images courtesy of Robert Peters


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For those of you that missed it. You can now access the artwork created during the NYSAT project that went down in NYC a few weeks ago through google maps.

In an attempt to build a coherent vision of what took place the 25th, this map offers images of 189 NPA city Outdoor advertising locations. Of those 189, nearly 130 show their progression from illegal ad locations, to whitewashed messaging boards, to artworks and communications created by concerned public individuals. The project, Lasting not much more than 24hrs, covered nearly 19,000 square feet of illegal advertising.

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During the 1970s and 80s, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the burgeoning New York City graffiti movement.

After twenty five years and more than a half a million copies later, Chronicle Books is happy to offer their book Subway Art in a large-scale, deluxe format.

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Image from Nerdcore

Twitter, the latest craze in social media has hit the streets.

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