London Guerilla Knitting: graffiti meets woolly graffiti by Deadly Knitshade Guerrilla Knitting hit London on Friday and left bits of it warmly wrapped in cheery woolly goodies of all sorts. Magda Sayeg of US guerilla knitters Knitta Please was in town and just couldn’t help …
How long can you stare at wall of graffiti or even just a photo of it? This one is certainly captivating enough that yes, even after the third, fourth even fifth look you are still convincing your brain that there is no photo trickery involved. …
Hot art news of the day: Mark ‘White Horse’ Wallinger is displaying a mirrored tardis at the Hayward. Unnecessary survey of the day award: litter and graffiti make people ‘feel less safe’. Miracle of the day: the baby who survived twenty minutes underwater in a …
One of London’s most determined fine artists has teamed up with one of its most notorious. Expect masked gunmen slogging it out over criminal bounties (a la Martin Lea Brown) and big wet sloppy licks ‘n’ kisses from mouthy graffiti artist Sweet Toof at this …
With last night’s packed private view opening of Stay Free at the cavernous Tramshed (6-8 Garden Walk, EC2A 3EQ), a Victorian Grade II listed building in Shoreditch, prolific street artist Sickboy stepped up to the challenge of wowing London’s jaded art mob with his first …
German boy-girl graffiti team, Herakut, are back in London with a new show, titled Dirty Laundry and running until the 7th of December. That’s not a lot of time to examine their stains – so we advise getting over the 22 Wellington Street (WC2E 7DD) …
Watch where you’re treading in North Bloomsbury. Among the fresh-fallen plane leaves and dried-on gum, you’ll encounter the stenciled countenances of history’s great (male) thinkers. Ghandi, Darwin, Dickens, Newton, Freud and others stare up from the pavement, accompanied by arrows that lead to UCL. A …
The Banksy daubing just north of Oxford Street is not long for this world. No mindless act of vandalism for this graffito, though – instead, Westminster City Council have decided that the mural will be removed in order to “send a message” to the city’s …
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Whether you queued up for the Cans Festival back in May or missed out on car crashes, piano men, and Banksy getting called out, now is definitely the time to head back over to Leake Street near Waterloo. Almost the entirety of the tunnel under …
Taggers are, by definition and, at the very least, cheeky young scamps but Andrew Gillman who’s facing sentencing for criminal damage today, has truly got balls. Not only is he leader of the prolific and international grafitti gang, DPM Crew, and responsible for thousands of …
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