The latest happenings from BEYOND THE STREETS and our family of artists, including events, exhibition openings, stories and articles from the worlds of graffiti and street art.
Written by Alec Banks Paris-raised creative André Saraiva, or simply André, has earned a worldwide reputation for making the impossible seem possible through his various artistic endeavors, which r...
Eddie Martinez could have been a drummer. Or a bass player. The rhythm for which he moves from painting to painting, stroke to stroke, and you could even say, year to year, carries a certain discer...
Magic Touch is an artistic expression that celebrates the creative follies of Canarsie homeowners from the late 20th century – a sort of shade-tree tattoo parlor that might exist on your cousin Car...
There is a dichotomy at play in his newest exhibition in the Los Angeles space, Shattered Glass, curated by Melahn Frierson and AJ Girard. The works are given space to breath, almost as if they exi...
Quickly the name TAKI 183 became more noticeable through the entire city than any other graffiti writer at the time. While most writers stayed in their neighborhoods, TAKI 183 went “all city.” Most...
On April 5 -10, 2021 the traditional contemporary art world collides with the emerging blockchain art community for a group exhibition across the metaverse. META_VS aims to inspire a new generation...
In the spring of 1985, an anonymous band of activists instantly scandalized the art-world establishment with a series of wheatpaste posters purposefully plastered all over the streets of New York’...
In 1995, Chicano street photographer Estevan Oriol held a now-famous photo session in which he asked a Latina model with a fierce set of claws to arrange her bling-gilded fingers in the shape of tw...
The conventional story of the history of American graffiti is that in the mid to late 1960s, young people started writing their nicknames on walls in Philadelphia and New York. Among them, CORNBREA...
HuskMitNavn’s painted characters draw us in with smiles but have tensions behind them that are quite real. He can dial these tensions up or down depending on the circumstance, of course. He has don...
