Swiss ambassador Bruno Spinner asked a group of graffiti artists in 2001 to help deal with Switzerland’s public relations nightmare: i.e. Swiss Banks held Nazi Gold in World War II. Spinner recruited a group of graffiti artists to create new works in the Swiss embassy car park as a sort of image makeover, and the [...]

Roger Gastman, Caleb Neelon, and Anthony Smyrski have put together this rich collection showcasing over 1,000 images and authoritative text, highlighting street art and life in cultural hotspots around the globe. Street World: Urban Culture and Art from Five Continents follows skateboarders in Japan, hunts down graffiti artists in San Paolo, Brazil, and exposes the [...]