Street Art: Bulgarian Monument to the Soviet Army Turns Red, White and Blue

click to enlarge/photo by soho42

Last weekend, the citizens of Sofia, Bulgaria awoke to find a public monument to Red Army defaced by an unknown interventionist. The statues of Soviet soldiers who “liberated” Bulgaria from the Nazis in 1944 were painted as Superman, Joker, Ronald McDonald, Santa Claus, Captain America and other pop culture icons of capitalist Americana. Below it, a graffiti caption read: “In step with the times!” or “”abreast with the times!” depending on the translation. As you might guess this angered both Bulgarian and Russian officials who are actively searching for the artist some are calling the “Bulgarian Banksy”.  The clean-up process on the sculpture started on Tuesday morning even though 1,700 people rallied on Facebook against removing the artists’ work.

Watch: Broken Fingaz’ Stop Motion Graffiti

This is the first animation clip from Tant and Unga of Israel’s Broken Fingaz Crew.

Watch: The Video Tour of This Year’s Fame Festival

This is a video tour of the up-and-coming street art festival Fame in Southern Italy. The brainchild of Angelo Milano (Studio Crombie), the Festival gathers some of the biggest international street artists, such as Blu, Nunca, Os Gemeos, JR and Erica Il Cane who spend the summer painting murals all over town. Now in its third edition, the Festival has left a real mark on the town which now displays one of the most spectacular selection of public artwork in the world.

See more photos from Fame Festival 2010 here

Street Art: It’s Fun To Do Bad Things

Street artist BARF says what we all know to be true but don’t like to admit in this piece recently spotted in Southern California. It also reminds us of Latarian Milton, the 7-year-old  joy rider of internet fame, thereby making the piece doubly awesome.

photo by: True 2 Death

Artist Shout Out/Watch: Pose

Streetwear label LRG highlights the technique of Chicago-based graffiti giant Pose in their two-part “Artist Driven Series”.  Pose based each piece on the graphics he originally designed for LRG t-shirts.  Watching Pose wield a spray-can is like watching poetry in motion.

See more of Pose’s work via the Known Gallery.

Check out Pose’s blog here.

Read a recent interview he did with Juxtapoz Magazine here.