issue4 – UP MAGAZINE

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.