Street Urchin
December 28, 2019
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In 2008 the financial crash bought a halt to new house building on the outskirts of Madrid. The result was a large number of skeleton estates: pavements, street lighting, bins and benches had been
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Gary Carson
August 7, 2018
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A girl spends five minutes looking at the same scarf in accessorise in Stansted Airport. She’s diminutive, 5ft 5, wearing tight fitting blue jeans which show the slimness of her legs and a
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Shadraq Rodriguez
July 11, 2018
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Four years ago, almost to the day, I ambled up the road from my Hackney flat just as the Algeria v Russia World Cup game in Curbita Brazil was reaching its climax. It was
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Street Urchin
January 8, 2018
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‘Vandals and the City’ is about a group of men, referred to as a ‘crew’, who go around putting graffiti up on different bits of London. The text in the book—essentially a foreword—was written
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Street Urchin
January 1, 2018
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The Berlin Wall was the physical and iconic epicentre of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States during the latter half of the twentieth century. The history of the wall
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Street Urchin
August 18, 2017
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Affluent Bath is not the kind of place that you’d expect to see street art. If you visit your preconceptions will not be challenged. Nevertheless I did spot this piece, an homage to Emerson.
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Street Urchin
August 8, 2017
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The fear of impotence may be more important than the fear of death
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Captain Leadmill
August 1, 2017
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Difficult to make head nor tail of this, it mixes two very different artistic styles, and somehow doesn’t work. And yet its sufficiently bizarre and the images of the dogs so detailed and impressive
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Shadraq Rodriguez
July 13, 2017
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Tunis is an old ramshackle city. Plenty of space for ripped down paste-ups. There’s the odd bit of graffiti. Some nice street signage. Generally speaking, some nice bits of Mediterranean
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