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Art and Streets in Europe: second stop, Florence!

Apr 6, 20213 min read

Art and Streets in Europe: second stop, Florence!

Second appointment with the column 'Street Art and Graffiti in Europe', this time we move to Italy, more precisely to Florence, one of...

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Samuel Taylor

Nov 23, 20204 min read

Street Art Hunter: Gnik Combor

As a continuation in our street art hunters series, we would like to introduce to you all Gnik Combor (@gnikcombor). As a point of...

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Jesse Scott

Dec 6, 20195 min read

Sharing Experience, Sharing Advice

As 2019 begins to wind down and the museum shifts its focus toward 2020, Street Art Museum Amsterdam has chosen to streamline and...

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Expectation, Fabrication and Reality: Spectacle, Preservation, Tourism, and Street Art

Jesse Scott

Dec 5, 20198 min read

Expectation, Fabrication and Reality: Spectacle, Preservation, Tourism, and Street Art

In 2015, what many Amsterdammers saw as the countercultural heartbeat of the city was destroyed. Following on the heels of new...

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Street Art Museum Amsterdam Attends Cultuurlab 2019, Hosted by Meervaart Theater

Jesse Scott

Dec 4, 20193 min read

Street Art Museum Amsterdam Attends Cultuurlab 2019, Hosted by Meervaart Theater

Once again, all of us at Street Art Museum Amsterdam have been floored by the richness and breadth of arts and culture thriving in...

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Wowed at Pow!Wow! Read Now to Find Out How

Jesse Scott

Sep 15, 20196 min read

Wowed at Pow!Wow! Read Now to Find Out How

As a follow-up to our surprise visit from Spenser Little at the beginning of September, I went to Rotterdam on September 10, 2019 to...

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Derry Jameson & Jesse Scott

Mar 14, 20196 min read

Street Art, Advertising and Ethics

The relationship between art and advertising is long and convoluted. Artists develop new mediums, styles and techniques. These are then...

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Efi Kouneli

Mar 11, 20192 min read

...WELCOME SPRING...

In the past on the first day of spring people used to create and offer bracelets called “March’’ made with red and white twine. According...

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New street art piece is in the baking: MEMORIES by Bastardilla (Colombia)

Efi Kouneli

Feb 21, 20194 min read

New street art piece is in the baking: MEMORIES by Bastardilla (Colombia)

Bastardilla, born in Medellin Colombia, has been painting since she was a child, moving onto the streets around 2005. She is one of the...

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The New Dictators - Archaeology of Helsinki graffiti

Anna Stolyarova

Oct 15, 20181 min read

The New Dictators - Archaeology of Helsinki graffiti

On Friday, October 26, Amsterdam's LAB111 are screening the documentary brought to us by Aleksi Pohjavirta. The New Dictators -...

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Tierrah Young Mangani

Jan 12, 20183 min read

The Gruff Writing: A Romantic Anthology

Whilst hanging in the gallery and surfing through SAMA's rich book collection, I stumbled upon the first book that is not a photo book...

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A NEVER ENDING STORY ABOUT AMSTERDAM, STREET ART & PARIS - PARIS ON

Julia Dessauvage

Nov 19, 20174 min read

A NEVER ENDING STORY ABOUT AMSTERDAM, STREET ART & PARIS - PARIS ON

CHAPTER 3: PARIS ON (A FANCY FAIR) When the Fair’s opening commenced, SAMA’s stand was finalized: each wall and corner was shining with...

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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 18, 20174 min read

An Inspiration from Keith Haring

Everybody has once seen the stylized figures of Keith Haring, faceless and flat like in a 2D world, they move and dance and run around....

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Anna Stolyarova

Jun 16, 20171 min read

Happy Friday

#sloterdijk #streetartinamsterdam #streetartmuseuminterns #posters #pasteup #graffiti #guerillamarketing

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Art & Terminology: What is the Street Art movement?

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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From Vandalism to Art - has graffiti lost its political character?

Cika Schulz

May 15, 20171 min read

From Vandalism to Art - has graffiti lost its political character?

Graffiti is a reality around the world, in cities and in rural areas of the Western world into conflict areas like Palestine and emerging...

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