A new form of “street-art” seems to be quite succesfull in France. They smeared a lot of paint over a number of adverts in the streets under the name Robert Johnson.

The final result of this was that the city of Marseille decided to cut down the number of billboards from 5.5 thousand to 3.5 thousand. A remarkable fact!

I do not wish to promote these actions as you kow – I am actually quite sceptical about it. But the fact that it made politicians realize that there is too much advertisement in the streets is something renarkable.

That can only happen in France, where there is a huge history of strikes and public anger which resulted in some changes (guillotine anyone?).

View newspaper article in Dutch.
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This person needs help to identify some street-art, maybe someone can help:
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I’ve seen these in hoxton, London ?? Im an art student doing research,
wondered if anyone knows? – I didnt know how to post a new thread sorry…
Thing is some of the pics are done using stencil and a paint remover, kinda anti graffitti graffitt.. ever heard of this

Links are here:

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Thanks, Timothy Walton

Check out the Dutch newspaper Trouw for an article on the emergence of more and more street-art.

There is also an exposition in Rotterdam and some sites. Don’t believe the hype!

Read it.

Hmm, I discoverd something unnerving last week. It might have something to do with street-art (afaik).

Click the image to see what happened!