London’s most workaholic street artist is at it again. Over the weekend, Ben Eine began repainting the Holywell Lane wall of Village Underground, the raised enclave of studios housed in old Tube carriages. He’s currently putting the finishing touches to the new piece, which cryptically …
Banksy has storyboarded the intro to a new Simpson’s episode. That much is old news by today’s standards – the video clip has already circumnavigated the Internet thirteen times since breakfast. But the artist’s televisual wheeze seems to coincide with a new street piece on …
The Papal visit continues to provoke reactions from all quarters, including the street art community. Here’s a somewhat paint-by-numbers effort we found on Curtain Road, Shoreditch today. His Holiness is whitewashing over reports of child abuse in the church. How very droll. The stencil follows …
Until recently, Banksy was the only street artist with any prominence in the public eye. Then Robbo made the papers thanks to a spat with Banksy. Next, Eine hit the news after David Cameron presented an example of his work to President Obama. Who will …
The rampant typography leaves no doubt that this is the handiwork of the now-famous street artist Ben Eine. This presumably commissioned piece has, in truth, been sitting around on Middlesex Street for a few weeks, but the artist returned today to finish off the job. …
Next time you’re wandering through Hackney, look out for this sardonic scrawl. Street artist Pure Evil is daubing posters, walls and even abandoned furniture with the slogan ‘Beautiful Hackney’. Let us know if you spot any more.
Heygate Estate Monster by Liamatom 40 residents are still living on the Heygate Estate, one of them an amputee Oona King picks up backing for her Mayoral bid from some tainted sources: Peter Mandelson and Idris Elba, best known for playing suave gangster Stringer Bell …
Banksy is to London street art what Bart is to the Simpsons – the most famous representative, if not necessarily the most interesting, of a varied bunch. If you want to learn more about London’s constantly shifting scene, a new weekly tour from Hookedblog might …
Graffiti artist Robbo has been daubing the walls of London for many years, recently shooting to wider fame after a series of artistic clashes with Banksy along the Regent’s Canal. But there’s much more to Robbo than stencil wars with street art’s favourite headline magnet. …
Prolific London street artist Inkfetish (real name Tom Blackford) has decorated walls all over the capital, from Stockwell to Shoreditch. You’ll probably recognise a few of his pieces from the gallery above. We put a few questions to the chap. How did you come-up with …
Either that, or the country’s most famous street artist has taken a dive in quality. The mural pictured above appeared yesterday in the ‘secret’ beer garden of The Princess of Wales, a fine pub in the residential part of Primrose Hill (David Miliband lives just …
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