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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...
Roberto Alvau
Apr 6, 20213 min read
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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...
Samuel Taylor
Nov 23, 20204 min read
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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...
Jesse Scott
Dec 6, 20195 min read
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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...
Jesse Scott
Dec 5, 20198 min read
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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...
Jesse Scott
Dec 4, 20193 min read
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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...
Jesse Scott
Sep 15, 20196 min read
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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...
Derry Jameson & Jesse Scott
Mar 14, 20196 min read
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...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...
Efi Kouneli
Mar 11, 20192 min read
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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...
Efi Kouneli
Feb 21, 20194 min read
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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 -...
Anna Stolyarova
Oct 15, 20181 min read
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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...
Tierrah Young Mangani
Jan 12, 20183 min read
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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...
Julia Dessauvage
Nov 19, 20174 min read
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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...
Anna Stolyarova
Jul 28, 20172 min read
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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....
Cika Schulz
Jul 18, 20174 min read
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Happy Friday
#sloterdijk #streetartinamsterdam #streetartmuseuminterns #posters #pasteup #graffiti #guerillamarketing
Anna Stolyarova
Jun 16, 20171 min read
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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...
Cika Schulz
Jun 15, 20174 min read
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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...
Cika Schulz
May 15, 20171 min read
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