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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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?
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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.
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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.