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UP Magazine’s 10 Most Read Articles Of 2024
To close out 2024, UP Magazine is proud to share our Top 10 Most Read Articles of the year! This year’s Top 10 Most Read Stories covers everything Cuba to Chicago Graffiti, Chalk-Based Street Art to Glass Art. Here’s what you read the most over the past 12 months!
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UP Magazine’s 2024 Editor’s Choice Articles
UP Mag’s 2023 Editor’s Choice List! Check out some of the stand-out stories and UP team favorites from the year.
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UPFEST 2024 – Spray, Pray, Worship: A Weekend at Europe’s Biggest Street Art Festival
UPFEST is the largest gathering of street artists in Europe (even though we’re not in Europe anymore, and could just as easily have ‘Scrawliest Part of That Island You Remember From Paul Mescal’s Instagram’ emblazoned on the website). Bristol is where it all began for the UK scene. And UPFEST has been running for 16 years. I have arrived to see why.
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David Zinn Doesn’t Care What Sticks Around
David Zinn is an ardent disciple of pareidolia, the habit of seeing patterns in the arrangement of forms, like a scream on a tree stump or a plough in the stars. For over 20 years, he’s been smuggling delightful drawings into the cracks beneath us: the pavements, asphalt and nettles, the urban acne we ignore like an old face. How does he do it? Chalk.
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Leaving Your Bite Mark: Juan Jose Surace
Meet Juan Jose Surace, a Spanish mural artist whose macabre style uses the grotesque to critique the Spanish establishment.
