Belarus is the European anomaly that the rest of the continent views as its ‘last dictatorship’. Although it’s recently been in the news most people, including myself, know next to nothing about this country and its culture. So it’s interesting to come across a new magazine that attempts to remedy this. Continue Reading
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Urinals, Public Space & Murals
This month marks a hundred years since the artist Marcel Duchamp submitted his now famous artwork, Fountain, to an international exhibition in New York. Influenced by Dadaism his submission was simply a urinal he’d bought in a local shop. Duchamp’s surrealist questioning of institutional definitions of art has had a defining impact on modern art. Continue Reading
A ‘New Dawn’?
On a recent trip to Japan a friend sent back a copy of Sane magazine. Based in Tokyo it’s apparently one of only three graff mags from the country. Continue Reading
The Law of the Street
The third issue of Writing Hessisch magazine has recently been released and this latest addition is as good as ever. Once again the format has been tweaked slightly Continue Reading
100% Straße
Although tagging is generally seen as the ugly face of graff, both by those outside and sometimes even within the graffiti subculture, it’s essentially graffiti in its purest form. Unfortunately there’s not too many magazines that focus purely on tags, street bombing, and filthy walls. So it’s really good to see a new mag out that unapologetically presents this sort of grime. This is the first issue of Gossenpost or to give its translation; ‘the Gutter Paper’.
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Graffiti Marginalia
Bern: International Playground is a quirky new zine from Switzerland. One way to describe it is as an almost scientific catalogue showing samples of graffiti found in a particular environment. The photographic survey presented in this format is the result of more than a decade of research into vandalism Continue Reading
A Subcultural Travel Guide
This is something I’m quite excited to see – a magazine that combines graff and footy! There are occasional bits of football graffiti to be found in various magazines and I’ve seen a couple of special street-art editions of ultras magazines too. However, while I was hoping for an in-depth look at football graffiti, Strfzg doesn’t quite do this. Rather than documenting football related graff, the zine is more like the personal travelogue of an FC Augsburg supporter. Continue Reading
Comparatively Speaking
I recently got hold of two nice magazines that have come out this year. The first of them is, Schönz Züri, which comes from Switzerland and is dedicated to the scene in Zurich while the second is a French mag called Boogie Woogie which focuses purely on freights. Continue Reading
The Graffiti Handbook
The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art is a new release, edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross, which aims to be a comprehensive reference on the subject. At nearly five-hundred pages the Routledge Handbook is pretty mega Continue Reading
Walls Acquired
I recently got sent Free Wall Space which is a newly released zine showing work by the Barcelona based Bad Buzz. The publication is the result of two years of the artist ‘pulling his eyes out everyday’ sketching to achieve his own style. In fact eyeballs do seem to be a theme running through his work and feature a lot here! Continue Reading