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  • Heiner Radau: Drawing the City from the Inside Out

    Heiner Radau’s work reminds us that a city cannot be fully understood from a passing photograph, but from the long act of sitting still inside it, watching everything move.

  • Phase Shift: Felipe Umbral’s Journey from Lawyer to Artist

    Felipe Umbral’s paintings depict portals and passageways–symbols of evolutionary progress. While it might seem magical, the process is perfectly natural—that such a drastic change of state happens organically is what inspires Umbral.

  • Fashion – A Collaborative Craft

    This story explores fashion as a collaborative craft. Industry professionals speak on the hidden labor & expertise behind a garment or product – from a concept to a finished wearable.

  • Wonder on Loop – Lucas Zanotto

    Lucas Zanotto’s turns Eterno Gallery in Lisbon into a playground for delightful characters that hop from the digital to the tangible and back again.

  • Fanakapan’s ‘Balloon-Graff’ Floats Off the Walls

    Fanakapan produces the kind of work that makes you ask “How did he do that?” His renditions of photorealistic balloon surfaces warp the possibilities of two-dimensional murals.

  • Tearing the Icon: Eduardo Castaldo’s Reclaimed Art on Napoli’s Walls

    Eduardo Castaldo left behind an award-winning career in photo-journalism to find his place on the walls of Napoli. Tearing icons, rewriting advertisements, and repurposing war reportages, he turns the street into a space of confrontation. His art challenges the language of power and exposes the fractures of mainstream narratives, refusing comfort and asking people to face reality.

  • Once Upon a Time in the Charnel Grounds: Swoon’s Latest Fairy Tale Comes Alive

    Swoon was delighted to discover honing the craft of fairytale writing can support communication with one’s inner child: “Sorry, hon. I don’t read Bessel van der Kolk. I don’t read psychology textbooks. If you want to talk to me, tell me a story.”

  • From Sacred Slaps to Street Crime: The Paradox of Sticker Culture in Japan

    How can a nation that has practiced and preserved ritual sticker placement for over a thousand years simultaneously maintain some of the world’s harshest penalties against graffiti and street art?

  • Folktales & Syncretic Play: The Many Myths of Keya Tama

    It is through counter-chronologies and cultural assemblages that Keya Tama reframes contemporary animism beyond its primitivist classification.

  • Sticker Culture: An Interview w/ Miami Sticker Wars

    Miami Sticker Wars is digital scrapbook of slaps documenting a movement that most passersby overlook. From postal labels to global trades, the page has become an archive of Miami’s sticker scene and a bridge to the wider street art community. 

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