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Julia Dessauvage
Dec 20, 20173 min read
A NEVER ENDING STORY ABOUT AMSTERDAM, STREET ART & PARIS - ABOUT THE FUTURE TO COME
As all good things come to an end, SAMA Paris adventure also. After the closing of 13 Art Fair and five intense days in the French...
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Julia Dessauvage
Dec 12, 20175 min read
A NEVER ENDING STORY ABOUT AMSTERDAM, STREET ART & PARIS - THE GENERAL (SQUAT X-PLICIT LYRISM)
THE GENERAL (SQUAT X-PLICIT LYRISM) (INTERVIEW C) Some random night in L’Art Seine, I tried to know more about the squat and about its...
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Anna Stolyarova
Dec 5, 20176 min read
A Story of Acceptance - Giacometti & Street Art
“He looked like an imprisoned lion, with his lionesque head and an enormous shock of hair. His conversation and behaviour were extremely...
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Julia Dessauvage
Dec 3, 20174 min read
A NEVER ENDING STORY ABOUT AMSTERDAM, STREET ART & PARIS - PARIS OFF (STREETS & SQUATS)
If our days were focused on the official fair, our nights were concentrated on a rawer environment: Paris’ streets. After all, isn’t it...
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Julia Dessauvage
Nov 2, 20173 min read
A NEVER ENDING STORY ABOUT AMSTERDAM, STREET ART & PARIS
CHAPTER I: THE PREQUEL In September 2017, SAMA got an incredible surprise : being invited to the 13 Art Fair first edition, an event...
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Anna Stolyarova
Aug 8, 20171 min read
Colour Your Sunday with Ricardo MOSTE (MEX)
This year our museum had discovered a new pop-up summer location - QRU. QRU are a Pop-up neighbourhood meeting place where neighborhood...
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Anna Stolyarova
Jul 28, 20172 min read
I Protect Tigers
"The Lion" spraypaints "The Tiger" on World Tiger Day The 22-year-old Amsterdam street artist Judith de Leeuw, alias JDL Street Art, WNF...
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Cika Schulz
Jul 19, 20173 min read
Conference on Public Art and a ‘Stadscurator’ Position in Amsterdam
Art in the open space exists in Amsterdam in different sizes and formats. You can find sculptures, public poems and architecture. Street...
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Cika Schulz
Jul 14, 20172 min read
Good Neighbours Market in Sloterpark
On the Good Neighbours Market last Sunday in Nieuw-West, the Street Art Museum Amsterdam brought joy and colours by organising a workshop...
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Anna Stolyarova
Jul 13, 20171 min read
Collection of Street Art
Whilst the world is debating on nuances between street, urban and open space art, Amsterdam municipality had registered Street Art Museum...
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Cika Schulz
Jul 4, 20176 min read
Street Art and Economics
The economics behind street art: commercialisation and its consequences. In my former article we touched upon the topic of the growing...
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Frances Gibson
Jul 1, 20171 min read
Good bye Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Goodbye SAMA! After just over two months, it’s time for me to say goodbye to SAMA, and what a sorry goodbye it is. SAMA to me is a...
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Cika Schulz
Jun 28, 20172 min read
When the Mural Dies
Today is a fairly sad day for the museum. Right at this moment a big gripper machine is tearing down two of our artworks at the Dirk...
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Anna Stolyarova
Jun 26, 20171 min read
BimBim Bikes
BIMBIMBIKES, are the world's first online bike rental platform for anywhere in the world! BimBimBikes connect tourists with rental...
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Cika Schulz
Jun 15, 20174 min read
Art & Terminology: What is the Street Art movement?
As this museum is called Street Art Museum Amsterdam, you might be asking yourself the obvious question: what exactly is street art? And...
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Frances Gibson
Jun 12, 20171 min read
Cika and Fran go Guerrilla Posting
Following on from the previous article on SAMA’s poster campaign, here’s an update on what happened next! ‘Who needs a gallery, when I...
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Gunvor Bjerklund Røkke
Jun 8, 20173 min read
A biotechnologist's thoughts of the Street Art Museum of Amsterdam
My name is Gunvor Bjerklund Røkke, and I am a PhD candidate from Norway. I do my PhD within the field of Biotechnology, and what I...
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Anna Stolyarova
Jun 6, 20173 min read
Op Bezoek bij Museum om de Hoek
Op zondag 9 juli 2017 stappen we op de fiets voor een tocht langs verschillende buurtmusea in Amsterdam. De fietstocht brengt je in...
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Anna Stolyarova
May 27, 20174 min read
Street Art Museum Amsterdam at UXUS
On Wednesday, 24 May, just before the AJAX football game, I was invited to present at a mini-PechaKucha event in UXUS design and...
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Anna Stolyarova
May 16, 20172 min read
SAMA and Open Source
People often ask me how the decisions are made with reference to Street Art Museum Amsterdam management. My answer is simple - we stay...
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