Street artists in Athens are expressing their economic concerns and frustration with vivid imagery:
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Mobstr’s Red Wall Challenge
Graffiti artist Mobstr tells the story with pictures of his grand experiment taunting authorities:
I cycled past this wall on the way to work for years. I noticed that graffiti painted within the red area was “buffed” with red paint. However, the graffiti outside the red area would be removed via pressure washing. This prompted the start of an experiment. Unlike other works, I was very uncertain as to what results it would yield. Below is what transpired over the course of a year.
It went like this:
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Banksy Bust Bomb
Banksy arrest hoax: Internet duped by fake online report claiming artist’s identity has been revealed
by Ella Alexander
20 October 2014
Independent.co.uk
Banksy has not been arrested, despite a report stating the contrary.
“The Banksy arrest is a hoax,” the street artist”s publicist, Jo Brooks, told The Independent.
However, the prank seems to have duped the internet, with his name quickly trending on Twitter.
A false story, published on US website National Report, alleged that the identity of the British street artist had finally been revealed and he had been arrested by London”s Metropolitan Police and is being held “without bail on charges of vandalism, conspiracy, racketeering and counterfeiting”.
The story claimed that Banksy”s London art studio had been raided, where “thousands of dollars of counterfeit money along with future projects of vandalism” were found, along with ID thought to belong to the famed anonymous street artist, which allegedly identified him as Liverpool-born Paul Homer.
However, a quick Google search shows that the quotes were originally published in 2013 on hoax website on PRLog. Read the rest of the story here.
3D Street Art by MTO in Rennes, France
Bombing for Peace
More than a dozen street artists from around the world, including New York, Britain, the Czech Republic and Hawaii, traveled at the behest of Artists 4 Israel to the Golan Heights, where, with $12,000 worth of spray paint, they left their mark on the edge of this 1.8-mile-wide demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria.
“Most of the group”s time, and paint, was spent at the military and intelligence base, a huge two-story structure that a local tour guide said was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. The guide, Chen Kristal, said it had been the headquarters for the Syrian top brass, and that the famous Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who was eventually hanged in Damascus, had also been stationed there.” New York Times
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