Jonathan Boonzaaier

On Sunday, 1 December, the National Gallery of Victoria opened its doors to a world-first exhibition offering new and fascinating insights into the unique visual languages of art world icons, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Titled, ‘Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines’, the NGV invites attendees to travel back in time to the New […]

Graffiti art and b-boy pioneer, Doze Green’s latest exhibition in New York arguably epitomises a fundamental theme of his journey, the energy of movement. Hosted by the Allouche Gallery until December 8 this year, the exhibition titled Doze Green: A Volta marks the artist’s first solo show in New York since 2014, celebrated by a collection of

When Henry Chalfant moved to New York City in 1973, as a sculptor and Stanford University graduate, there was no world-wide graffiti movement. However, in a decade’s time he would go on to establish himself as one of the most important documentarians of graffiti culture with the release of ‘Style Wars’ (director: Tony Silver), 1983

The photographer and street artist known as JR, is currently showcasing murals, photographs, videos, films, dioramas, and archival materials at the Brooklyn Museum. Titled, ‘JR: Chronicles’, the exhibition launched 4 October this year and comes as the first major exhibition in North America by the French-born artist. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a paste-up

KAWS is currently on display at the National Gallery of Victoria, showing his full spectrum of artistic endeavours based on four identifying themes. The exhibition titled, ‘KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness’ is on view until 13 April, 2020 and provides a thorough overview of the popular artist’s career. Divided into the categories of Public

Barry McGee has been described as a cult figure and an artist for everybody – an artist for the world. He is respected for his street presence, loved for his handstyles and characters, revered for his formal transitions, and admired as a prominent figure of the Mission School art movement in his home city of

Earlier this week, social change finally came for the country of Sudan, one largely fuelled by the use of street art murals and portraiture implemented during peaceful demonstrations to document and encourage the people’s struggle. After months of protests in the Sudan capital city of Khartoum, it was decided on the 4th of August that

When U.S. President, Donald Trump and British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson appear alongside each other in the media, you can not help but think of the 15-foot tall Kiss of Death mural painted by The Paintsmiths in Stokes Croft, Bristol back in May 2016. Inspired by Dmitri Vrubel’s 1990 Berlin Wall graffiti piece titled, ‘My God, Help

Kosuke Sugimoto’s project Shoetree, continues to exhibit under the title of ‘Justification of Deterioration’. Most recently Shoetree showcased select works in pop-up displays hosted by Osaka’s Book and Bed and Tokyo’s CIAOPANIC. Sugimoto, the self-taught Japanese film-maker, illustrator and motion graphics artist created Shoetree in 2016 when the project was initially reported as a creative social media account. However,

In little over a month the Spanish duo, Pichiavo have painted numerous murals – a number that you can just count on one hand. Most recently, on July 18, the pair completed a 25m high urban street art representation of Athena on the side of the Livensa Living Diagonal student residence in Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona. However, their version

Concept artist, Sheng Lam recently captured the internet’s imagination when he redefined popular online platforms by translating their digital purpose into analogue application.  In a post on Art Station earlier this month, Lam presented in anime format: Facebook as a floppy disk unit, Spotify as a cassette player, Twitter as a morse code sender and receiver, Youtube

On July 22 this year, the French duo Monkeybird released a wrap up vid of their mural painted in Decazeville, France painted as part of the Murmurs festival of street art. Sponsored by graffiti artist Jo Di Bona, the festival ran from May 25 to June 29 when a host of internationally renowned artist transformed the old mining town into an open