An urban celebration of art, music and food, Street Nights features some of Dubai’s most active muralists painting live. The following images were captured last week while visiting the Walk At JBR, an inviting outdoor promenade along the beach.
Ramy Elzaghawy at work
Edge Nation crew member at work
Jonny Revs, work in progress
First image features Steffi Bow and Dose Art
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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While at the NYU Abu Dhabi campus last week, I had the opportunity to visit neighboring Dubai. Though slow to embrace street art, Dubai does provide space for a limited selection of graffiti and street art pieces. The following were seen in the Al Quoz Industrial District, home to over 100 art galleries:
Ivana Flores, Myneandyours and Ruben Sanchez
To be identified
Sya One
Note: Although I did not get to see it, a new, huge mural by Ben Eine recently surfaced at the Jumeirah Beach Residence in Dubai. And, also, this past month, pioneering New York street artist Richard Hambleton made his Dubai debut at the French restaurant, La Cantine du Faubourg. A more open attitude towards street art may not be that far away!
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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A collaborative venture between the National Audubon Society and the Gitler & ____ Gallery, the Audubon Mural Project, has brought a series of tantalizing murals of climate-endangered birds to the late John James Audubon’s upper Manhattan neighborhood.
Iena Cruz, Tri-colored Heron, 432 West 163 Street, close-up
Gaia, Endangered Harlem, 1883 Amsterdam Avenue, close-up
Gaia, Endangered Harlem, the complete mural
Hitnis, Fish Crow, 3750 Broadway
LNY, Swallow-tailed Kite, 575 West 155 Street
LNY, Swallow-tailed-Kite, close-up
Mr. Mustart, House Finch, 5 Edward M. Morgan Place
Keep posted to our Facebook page and this blog for many more Audubon Mural Project images.
Photo credits: 1, 2, 4 & 6 Tara Murray; 3, 5, 7 & 8 Lois Stavsky
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Last week, FIT students took to the streets for their school’s annual #ChalkFIT. Here are a few more murals — all fashioned with chalk — that have surfaced on the school’s exterior walls.
Ala Lockhart, Celeste Garcia and Jessica Lauser
Hayoung Jang, close-up
Wide view of one segment of project
FIT is located at Seventh Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets in Manhattan.
Note: First photo features images by Eduardo Cuba and Travis Hewitt
Photos by FIT graduate Dani Reyes Mozeson
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Noted Brazilian artist Nina Pandolfo recently made her way back to NYC. And we are thrilled that she did! Her delightfully dreamlike paintings will remain on exhibit through November 29th at Coburn Projects‘ Lower East Side gallery space at 2 Rivington Street, and her whimsical outdoor mural will continue to grace the huge wall on Rivington Street off the Bowery until the end of the year.
The complete mural, as seen this week
Nina at work on Rivington Street earlier this month
And here are three of Nina’s new paintings in Little Things for Life, her first NYC solo exhibit, presented by Coburn Projects:
Breathe Slowly
Follow Your Instincts
One Way to…
Located at 2 Rivington Street off the Bowery, the gallery is open Wed – Sun 10-6pm.
Photos: 1, 2, 4-6 Dani Reyes Mozeson; 3 courtesy of Coburn Projects
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Directly off the Broadway-Junction subway station — on the borderline between East New York and Brownsville — are some of NYC’s most exhilarating graffiti walls. Here are a few more images captured this past week of the murals fashioned by both locals and out-of-towners.
Werd and Kesta aka Kes
Chicago-based Amuse 126
NME and Ceos
Note: First image features Vers
Photos by Tara Murray
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Showcasing a range of works by first-rate artists, Downtown Detroit’s Belt Alley is a wondrous open-air gallery. Here are a few more images I captured on my recent visit to the Belt, a collaborative venture between Bedrock Real Estate Services and the Library Street Collective.
Chicago-based Pose, close-up
Miami-based Douglas Hoekzema aka Hoxxoh, close-up
UK-based Hush
West Coast-based Shepard Fairey aka Obey
Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils
West Coast-based Dave Kinsey, close-up
The Belt is located between the two wings of The Z parking garage on Grand River and Gratiot Avenues in Downtown Detroit’s former garment district.
Note: First image is by West Coast-based Tristan Eaton
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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Monument Art, an international mural festival — similar in scale and scope to Los Muros Hablan NYC that took place in 2013 in East Harlem and the South Bronx — was launched earlier this month. Curated by Celso Gonzalez and presented by the La Marqueta Retoña initiative, in collaboration with the City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, it features a stunning array of soulful, site-specific murals.
South African artist Faith 47, 103 St & Madison Ave
Brooklyn-based Puerto Rican photographer Luis R Vidal, 111 St & 1 Ave
Belgian artist Roa at work, 1o8 St & Lexington Ave
Roa‘s completed piece
Mexican artist Sego at work, 103 St & Madison Ave
Sego‘s completed mural
NYC-based Viajero at work, 113 St & 2 Ave
Viajero‘s completed mural
Argentine artist Ever at work on 99 St & 3 Ave
Ever‘s completed piece
Andrew Antonaccio and Filio Galvez of the Miami-based collective 2Alas, 138 St & Park Ave, South Bronx
The first image — a portrait of Puerto Rican novelist Nicholasa Mohr on 111 St and Lexington Ave — was painted by LA based El Mac in collaboration with Puerto Rican artists Celso Gonzalez and Roberto Biaggi, Cero.
Photo credits: 1 & 9 Lois Stavsky; 2, 3, 5-8 & 10-13 Tara Murray; 4. Dani Reyes Mozeson
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This is the 17th in an occasional series of posts featuring images of girls — and women — who grace NYC public spaces:
New Zealand-based Owen Dippie at the Bushwick Collective
Spanish artist Belin in Williamsburg
Colorado-based Bunny M in Soho
Tokyo-native Lady Aiko at the Bushwick Collective
Irish artist Fin Dac in Bushwick
Brazilian artist Nove in Bushwick
Brazilian artists Panmela Castro & OPNI at First Street Green Art Park
Photo credits: 1 Lois Stavsky; 2 & 4 City-As-School intern Stefan Vargas; 3, 5-7 Tara Murray
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The Centre-fuge Public Art Project has once again refashioned the Department of Transportation trailer on First Street and First Avenue. Here are a few more images of its latest transformation:
Andy Golub captured at work
Key Detail and Yu Baba collaboration
The other side of the trailer with Below Key, Leon Rainbow and Zero Productivity
And Never‘s homage to Peter Carroll aka Laser Burners
Note: First image features Andy Golub, Key Detail with Yu Baba Rez and Rez Shaolin
Photo credits: 1, 2, 4-6 Tara Murray; 3 & 7 Dani Reyes Mozeson
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