There’s been a lot of buzz the past week about Banksy, the anonymous and at times controversial street artist. His…
Grad Van
Colorful and well-executed “Grad” graffiti-art tag on an Econoline-type van parked on Prince Street, across from the Apple Store in…
Spray-Can Man
Classic Shepard Fairey street art on Wooster St. in SoHo, New York City. The anthropomorphic spray can in this wheat-paste…
Banksy Movie Premieres at Sundance
Last weekend the new Banksy documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop had its premiere screening at the Sundance Film…
Sneaker
Left-foot high-stop sneaker wheat-paste poster with blinding Day-Glo yellow-green color background, Wooster Street, SoHo, in downtown New York City. There’s…
Born to Run, Style to Burn
Haculla wheat-paste street art on Wooster Street in SoHo, in downtown New York City. This artwork riffs on iconic imagery…
Batman and Legos
Awesome street art painting on a store-front roller shutter near the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on E. Houston St. in New…
Sociability
Here’s a wonderful, fresh wheat-paste street-art poster by A.S.V.P. in downtown New York City. We’ve been really digging A.S.V.P.’s graphic…
I Heart Elio Varuna
On the way home from dinner at Brinkley’s in SoHo tonight, we discovered some new wheat-paste artwork as we walked…
Grand Obey
A big, meaty, classic “Obey” / “Giant Has a Posse” wheat-paste street-art poster by artist-designer and all-around bona fide visual…
Terry Richardson
Photographer Terry Richardson has recently started a new Tumblr photo blog called Terry’s Diary, and it’s fuckin’ awesome. Richardson is…
Street Gallery
Shots of black-and-white wheat-paste posters on Broome Street comprise a virtual and ephemeral portrait photography gallery of pop-culture figures. The…
BNE on Tokyo Signage
The global sticker phenom that is BNE is ubiquitous in the hipster hoods of the Japanese capital. Here’s an amusing…
Brown & Pink
Wheat-paste street art in Japan: This rabbit-like creature character can be found everywhere in Shibuya, Harajuku and Naka-Meguro, in Tokyo.…
Roberto Bolano
Speaking of Barcelona, here’ an awesome Catalan street art image posted by Gsz on Flickr. The stencil is of the…
Best Cities for Street Art in the World
Looking back at the last year and at our list of remaindered links, we stumbled across this street-art feature by…
Reykjavik Jesus
Graffiti and street art painting of Jesus Christ on an underground parking garage wall in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.…
“Stencialist”
The “Stencialist” is a clever portmanteau of stencil and specialist. Here we see the stencialist stencil-paste-up mash-up in Harajuku, the…
San Francisco Apartment Building Mural
This massive mural of faces on an apartment building in San Francisco Chinatown is awesome. Wish there was more art…
San Francisco Truck Graffiti Art
We were recently in wonderful San Francisco and took a few pics of some cool graffiti and street art. Here…
Happy New Year!
Goodbye, 2009. Hello, 2010!
“D” Cap Face
The “D” on the cap that hides a face of a dude wearing headphones. We found this crafty Sharpie marker…
Tokyo Graff Art
Basic tag-quality graffiti art on a small building in near Tokyo’s hip and fashionable Naka-Meguro and Shibuya neighborhoods.
Cupco Tokyo
Bride of Frankenstein sticker by Cupco in Tokyo, Japan.
Deschanel x Von Unwerth Absolut Billboard
This billboard advertisement for Absolut, the Swedish vodka brand in NoHo, in downtown New York City, is striking for a…
Tokyo Street Lines
Here’s a much closer view of the ground in Tokyo: A curving street line in the fashionable Naka-Meguro neighborhood. You…
Tokyo View
An awesome view of the gray-haze city looking towards Shibuya from the Mori Art Museum at Roppongi Hills.
Primo in LoSoNo Town
More freshness from Primo on Broome Street. This life-size wheat-paste of a man with a dog’s head holding a pistol…
Masamichi Katayama
We love the style and work of Masamichi Katayama and his company, called Wonderwall, one of the foremost contemporary Japanese…
Marilyn
From the mysterious Parisian artist(s) that is PIMAX, here’s a color stencil of the Hollywood acting legend Marilyn Monroe and…
Macbar Nolita
Awesome architectural design and space for the tiny Macbar, a mac-and-cheese specialty restaurant in New York City.
Miami Colors 101
Colorful low-rise buildings of 101 Exhibit gallery space in the Miami Design District, home to many galleries, clubs, studios and…
Favela Eyes
French street artist JR has been painting giant eyes on the sides of the hillside favelas in Rio de Janeiro,…
Girl at Bess
Whimsical illustration wheat-paste street art in front of the Bess shop on Lafayette St. in SoHo, in downtown Manhattan, NYC.
International Center of Photography
We went to the International Center of Photography in New York City on Sunday to the “Dress Codes” exhibition. We…
Nagel-esque
Does anyone remember Patrick Nagel? He was an illustrator and graphic artist who created an sexy, iconic graphical style of…
Harajuku Graff
Here’s an image of a massive graffiti tag on a shop’s roller-shade in Tokyo, Japan. We like the color combination…
Lafuma Sign
We love the design of this branded signage for Lafuma Furniture in Harajuku, Tokyo.
What?
“What” skull street-art in the Harajuku neighborhood, in Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo Sign with Stickers
“YKRC” and X-Large brand stickers articulate the arrow symbol on this Tokyo street sign.
Tokyo Landing
We thought we’d kick off a new series of Tokyo street-art postings with this a video of a 747 jumbo…
Megaphone Head
Clever street art in Athens, Greece.
Lafayette & Grand
The structures at the corner of Lafayette and Grand streets in SoHo, in downtown New York City, were recently torn…
Red Lips
Lovely.
Down to Earth
We love this wheat-paste street-art poster on Broome St. in SoHo. There’s a retro-Communist aesthetic evoked from this image of…
Goddess
We love this street art painting of a cute, Greek goddess in Psyrri, in Athens, Greece.
Stage on Wheels
From our City Life file: We stumbled upon this portable stage — a kind of bandshell on wheels — parked…
Dive Reykjavik
Here (and here, too) are some more kick-arse street art from our Iceland series …
The Reykjavik Blue Wall of Stencils
A lovely set of stencils exploring the cute, furry animal motif along the Blue Wall off the main shopping drag…
Lower East Side Ping Pong Club
From our Design and Cool Spaces file: The “Lower East Side Ping Pong Club” is a newly opended, temporary storefront…
Global Graphica on Twitter
Global Graphica is on Twitter. In fact, we have been providing regular updates via our tweets for many months now.…
Obey Printing Press
Super-fresh work from Shepard Fairey (of Obama poster, Obey / Giant Has a Posse, and Swindle Magazine fame) on Ludlow…
Vandal Edit
A man paints over graffiti ona storefront roller-shutter in the Psyrri neighborhood of Athens, Greece.
Primo Primo
Awesome recent wheat-paste street-art work by Primo on Crosby Street in downtown New York City. This street — a narrow,…
Define …
Street art in Athens, Greece: “Define, Demilitarize, Deny” written in an original hand-painted style next to an image of a…
Janis
Haculla is among our group of favorite wheat-paste street-art creators working the downtown New York City landscape. Here’s some recent…
Apartment
There’s some cool street art on the side of this apartment building in Psyrri neighborhood, in Athens, Greece. The nabe…
Scary
Ghostly stencil street-art in downtown Athens, Greece.
Manga Girl
Here’s a roller-shutter painted with a Japanese-style manga-like image of a cute, doe-eyed girl in Monastiraki, in Athens, Greece.
Frankenstencil
Stencil on a concrete-stucco building piller in Psyrri, in Athens, Greece.
White Box
The White Box gallery (or “WBX”) on Broome Street in Chinatown part of the Lower East Side often changes the…
Balls and Stripes
At Lincoln Road Mall, the popular outdoor pedestrianized street in South Beach, in Miami, art and bold architectural design define…
Club Event Postings
Sweet little collection of concert and club-event posters in downtown Athens, Greece.
2T
We’re having a little trouble decoing the alphanumerics in this graffiti tag in central Athens, Greece. It looks like it…
Lepore
Vandalized black-and-white image of famed downtown New York City fashion and transexual icon Amanda Lepore, whose claim to famed includes…
Gunslinga’
Life-size wheat-paste street-art poster of a crazed dude slinging two pistols on Allen Street in the Lower East Side, downtown…
Enjoy American Dream
Large “Enjoy American Dream” sticker in downtown New York City. This is one of a series of stickers with various…
Maupin Signage
We often walk by Lehmann Maupin, a beautiful art gallery space on Chrystie Street in the Lower East Side. (There’s…
Don’t Trip Kate
“Don’t trip Kate” wheat-paste street art by Haculla in downtown New York City. The “Kate” is super-slim model Kate Moss.…
Rich Girls Will Break Your Heart
Recent wheat-paste street art by Haculla on Lafayette St. in SoHo / Nolita in downtown New York City. We love…
WESC Party
From the City Life file here at Global Graphica, here’s a picture of drunk-looking DJ at the WESC (We are…
El Coucho
El Coucho wheatpaste in SoHo. This street-art work reminds us of contemporary Mexican folk art.
Let’s Vandal
Bearded pink characters in Psyrri, in Athens, Greece.
Athenian Graff Parking
Colorful graffiti street art in a small parking lot between apartment buildings in Athen’s vibrant Psyrri neighborhood.
Super Happy Friends
The Super Happy Friends stencil in central Reykjavik, Icleand. Who are these guys? We’ve heard the SHF are responsible for…
Meeting Point
We love this sign at Reykjavik’s Keflavik International Airport. We love the fact that somebody thought about setting aside a…
Crosby Skull
Exquisite skull-themed illustration wheat-paste street art on Crosby Street in SoHo, New York City.
Street Art Pets
Athens, like many Greek urban areas, is a city full of stray dogs and cats, so it’s fitting that we…
Tsisa
Dope graff by Tsisa on a narrow side street in the Plaka neighborhood, directly below the south face of the…
LIFO Athens
We recently returned from Athens, Greece, where we surprised at how vibrant the street art scene in the Greek capital.…
Zimi in Psyri
Street art on a roller-shutter in the action-packed Psyri neighborhood of central Athens, Greece. There are heaps and heaps of…
Group
Wicked street art in Athens, Greece, mate.
Greece is the Word
Global Graphica was a little quiet for the better part of a couple of weeks while we were in Greece…
Oyvey Bloomberg
This example of sticker street art on Delancey Street, in New York City’s Lower East Side / SoHo area, does…
DUMBO Dain
More awesome wheat-paste street art posters by the artist Dain next to Pedro’s Mexican restaurant near York St. Station in…
Old Lady DUMBO
Detailed street art paint-up in DUMBO, Brooklyn, of an old lady right next to Pedro’s Mexican restaurant on York Street.…
Couch the Slouch
Red-and-gold “Couch the Slouch” bird posting on Broome Street, Lower East Side, NYC. We heart the color combination and flat…
Brtiney Spears Street Art
Artist Haculla strikes Broome Street with a pair of wheat-paste street art posters, one of which does the mash-up of…
Tokyo Bullet-Train View Video
Mesmerizing, hypnotic clip of Tokyo urban scenery and architecture speeding by as seen and captured on HD Flip-cam video by…
Faces in DUMBO
Large wheat-paste street art of illustrated black-and-white faces near next to the Mexican restaurant (we forget the name) near York…
Gas-Mask Nudes
Torn street art posters in DUMBO, Brooklyn of three nude women wearing gas masks. Creepy, yet intriguing.
Aung San Suu Kyi Street Art
Large wheat-paste street art by artist Shepard Fairey (Obey / Swindle / Giant Has a Posse) on Broome Street, between…
Guitar Dude
Crosby Street in SoHo, in New York City, is a virtual gallery of street art unto itself. This life-size painted…
Ludlow Angst
It was a brilliant surprise on a recent morning to find this freshly thrown up black-and-white wheatpaste street art as…
Os Gemeos
The Brazilian street-art superstars Os Gemeos, “The Twins,” recently painted this massive mural in Nolita / NoHo / Lower East…
DUMBO Street Art – Dain v Supine?
Beautiful wheat-paste street art in DUMBO, in Brooklyn, by either Dain or Judith Supine (or someone else). This work looks…
Smart Anarchy
Pix of a cool tag-painted van parked in Chinatown, in New York City. “Smart” is painted as graffiti on its…
Nolita Abstract
These color-and-shape abstract wheat-paste street-art posters have been popping up all over lower Manhattan again in the past couple of…
Rulet Le Este
“Rulet Le Este” wheatpaste street-art poster of reindeer with gold-adorned antlers, somewhere in downtown New York City. Hmm … hmm.
Face
Face wheat-paste poster in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
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