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  • Mr. Myl: Inspiring Havana

    In May 2020 a large intervention by Mr. Myl appeared high above the streets of Havana. The image of a young boy with his face covered by a bandana and the word Coraje in large bold letters. Two months into the Covid-19 pandemic this was a message for all Cubans, for all people. A year later, when Cubans took to the streets in a historical demonstration of discontent, Coraje was demonstrated in a manner that has not been seen in decades.

  • Press Release: UP MAGAZINE ISSUE 4 RELEASE PARTY

    Join us on Saturday 7/31 at One Art Space to celebrate the release of our fourth issue. The release party is an opportunity to toast to street art, pick our contributors’ brains about their writing, and celebrate.

  • FNNCH & THE ADVENTURES AND PERILS OF A HONEY BEAR HUNT

    One would think a Honey Bear, resembling the classic plastic squeezable honey container with a spout cap lid one finds in any grocery store, would be anything but controversial, but artist Fnnch recently found his work at the center of an outcry. Discover the triumphs and confrontations of an artist and his Honey Bear in the streets of San Francisco during the time of Covid.

  • Addicted to the Art: Tarbox

    Houston-based street artist Tarbox comes clean about living through heroin addiction and how he found salvation through street art.

  • Weaponization of Coby Kennedy’s Parallel Consequential World: Jimmy Crow and the Imaginary Thug

    Coby Kennedy’s Jimmy Crow and the Imaginary Thug, on view at Superchief Gallery NY, takes the tenets of Afrofuturism to its most imaginative and sublime extreme through Kennedy’s parallel world. Kennedy makes clear that continually residing in our current racist society leads to the need for a violent and complete revolution.

  • Animals, Boarded Windows, and Colombia: The ABCs of Calicho

    During one of the most intense summers of NYC, artists emerged at the forefront of the BLM Movement, among them Calicho Arevalo. Read on to find out more about Calicho’s beginnings as an artist and how he felt to be part of something bigger.

  • Individual Activist: Artivism at Home & Abroad

    A profile on seasoned social justice figure IndividualActivist. Emma interviews IA about her activism in China and her perspectives on a changing political landscape.

  • AL DIAZ: 4 THE CREATIVELY DEFIANT

    A profile by Kurt McVey of the legendary Al Diaz, covering his upbringing, his art, and his relationship with Basquiat.

  • Yehimi Cambrón & The Joy Of Resilience: Monuments, Migration and Monarch Butterflies

    Yehimi Cambrón is an artist, activist, and public speaker from Michoacán, Mexico who immigrated to Atlanta. She is undocumented and uses her art to showcase the humanity of immigration as well as the intersectionality within it.

  • DISTRIBUTORS

    List of past & present UP Magazine distributors. For information & inquires, email upmagstaff@gmail.com

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