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Beijing’s graffiti: art or mayhem?

Beijing's young graffiti artists use derelict buildings as the canvas to share their take on the world. ...full story at Countdown to Beijing

from Countdown to Beijing on Thu, Nov 05 2009

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02 Jun 08 visit Graffiti Shanghai  »  YouTube videoDanwei.org and Danwei TV present episode 4 of The Shanghai Beat. For this episode, titled "Graffiti Shanghai," host and producer Adam Schokora (小石) meets up with three of Shanghai's best known graffiti artists: Popil, Zhang Lan (AKA: Mr. Lan), and H...
03 Jun 08 visit The Shanghai Beat: Graffiti Shanghai  »  Shanghaiist Adam Schokora of Danwei outdoes himself with this latest episode of the Shanghai Beat which sees him interviewing three of the city's top graffiti artists: Popil, Zhang Lan (AKA: Mr. Lan), and HKer. Good to know the graffiti scene is alive and well here!
26 May 09 visit Documenting Beijing's graffiti  »  Danwei Steel Dan at work in Sanlitun, by LLYS "Patchwork," a graffiti performance, was held in Sanlitun on May 24. During the event, French group TT crew and Beijing's BJPZ, along with Steel Dan (发条钢蛋), painted murals on large wall-like canvases speci...
02 Jun 08 visit The Shanghai Beat: Graffiti Shanghai (episode 4)  »  Danwei Danwei.org and Danwei TV present episode 4 of "The Shanghai Beat." For this episode, titled "Graffiti Shanghai," host and producer Adam Schokora (小石) meets up with three of Shanghai's best known graffiti artists: Popil, Zhang Lan (AKA: Mr. Lan),...
26 May 07 visit Reload Your Style: Graffiti art in Shanghai  »  Shanghaiist Graffiti and urban art have always, at their cores, been intimately tied to the human condition. Today, in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, bids of “it’s time to go” are scrawled on buildings near the dictator’s home. In tattered Lebanon, chimera-chasi...
21 Jun 08 visit China: Bad Fuwa!  »  Global Voices From Flickr user Matthew J. Stinson: “My favorite graffiti here depicts one of the Fuwa as a graffiti artist. It was added about a month ago.”

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