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The LISA Project’s 10 Year Street Art Odyssey
Ten years after it sprang from a pair of murals on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, the LISA Project has been responsible for hundreds of murals on the streets of NYC and beyond.
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The Dove and Her Labor of Love – The Story Behind the Bed Stuy Walls
Artist Miki Mu successfully delivers on creating the first annual mural painting festival aimed at beautifying Bed-Stuy. Adjacent to Stuyvesant Ave, famous for Spike Lee’s annual block parties, the Bed-Stuy Walls festival brings art, music and positive vibes to inspire the local community.
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Is Freemans Alley About to Go Commercial?
After decades as the Lower East Side’s go-to open air art gallery, Freeman Alley is facing pressure to go commercial. Not if the LES street art community has anything to say about it.
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Tattooed Mom, Philadelphia’s Artist Playground
UP speaks to Tattooed Mom founder Robert Perry about creating a positive, welcoming space in Philadelphia for sticker artists of all backgrounds and creeds to hone their skills, plus have some amazing drinks. Like all business owners, Perry has had his share of trials and tribulations, but for the people who patronize Tattooed Moms (including UP’s Emma Riva, T.K. Mills, and Ana Candelaria), the result has been more than worth it.
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The Style Guyde Presents: “L.A’s Originales” – Women Defining Contemporary Street Art
A guest essay exploring the artists and theme’s behind LA’s Originales. The show’s Grand Opening is Saturday, October 15th 5-10PM at the HVSN store (7303 Melrose Blvd) and runs through October 30th in Los Angeles.
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An American in Paris: Street Art With a SMiLE
Boulder stencil artist SM1LE is one of a very few American artists to take his practice to Paris and to be accepted into Parisian street art circles.
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Melissa Schainker: Hands as the Window to the Soul
Fine artist and street artists Melissa Schainker uses unconventional gestures and dreamlike colors to create a landscape for the darker sides of life that we as a society “suck at talking about.”
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UP5 Preview – False Idols
Emma Riva speaks to Zalmen Glauber of Shtetl Art Gallery, muralist Dylan Egon, and caricaturist Nasrin Sheykhi about a question that has puzzled Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike for centuries: How do you keep art from slipping into idolatry?
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UP MAGAZINE ISSUE 5 – ICONS
It’s finally here! Come celebrate from Thursday Sep 15 to Sunday Sep 17 at One Art Space with us for the release of UP ISSUE 5 ICONS.
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UP5 Preview – The Irony of Becoming Iconic: An Afternoon with Ron English
Famed artist Ron English got his start with a punk-rock attitude, eschewing the traditional gallery world in favor hard-hitting billboard takeovers and a DIY ethic, as Alexandria discovers in her interview with him for Issue 5.
