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    Art

    Coronavirus-killing UV lights

    What if we could use light to kill the coronavirus and get back to life as we once knew it? Huge UV spotlights could be a promising way to ensure virus-free outdoor city life.

    0The Tea Team

    “Tlacuilos”: the graffiti artists of Central America

    Central America’s graffiti scene is still relatively young, but it has already produced some unique styles and artists. A new documentary follows its development over 20 years, from the very start to the present day.

    0F. Peixoto

    Ink Made of Smog

    Tailpipe soot could be seen as just another resource – all you need is a good way to use it. In ink, for example, the pollutant is suddenly quite useful.

    0The Tea Team

    Resurrecting Salvador Dali

    Exceptional artist and eccentric Salvador Dali would have been 115 years old this year. In the virtual world at least, he can now blow out the candles on his birthday cake: The Dali Museum has brought him back to life with Deepfake in the Dali Lives experience.

    0The Tea Team

    Paint Thicker than Blood

    Graffiti has become a medium for change in Colombia’s capitol. Street artist Mos Ku takes us on a walk through his city.

    0J. Zeller / Mos Ku

    Smithsonian Photo Contest

    0Tea Team

    Bringing van Gogh back to life with the world’s first fully painted feature film

    Dozens of films have explored the life of Vincent van Gogh. Now, for the first time, his story is being told entirely through van-Gogh-style oil paintings and the painter’s death is recounted as a thriller: was it suicide or something more sinister?

    1Tea Team

    An artsy dialog between places affected by Climate Change

    What do the inhabitants of the Amazonian basin have in common with the Inuit of Greenland? In addition to being directly affected by climate change, both are also participating in a spectacular art project.

    0B. Dombrowski/Tea Team

    Drop dead deadly

    These beautiful popsicles are made of polluted water to raise awareness of water contamination.

    0Tea Team

    Paint by Drone

    Anybody can become a graffiti artist with this set of painting drones.

    0Tea Team

    Once Upon a Time

    Two beautifully designed books portray the lives of women throughout history.

    0Tea Team

    Hacking Lego – Toys for the Maker Generation

    Children and adults all over the world love creative toys like LEGO® bricks, but bricks from different brands usually don’t fit together. MakerBrane modules offer the solution: they allow you to link up anything and everything and build whatever you like.

    1A.Arida/S.de Maussion

    How Moroccans made their dream city come true

    How Moroccans made their dream city come true

    1Rabab El Afia

    Piggy goes artistic

    0Tea Team

    Travelling back in time

    A photo exhibit in Cologne harkens back to this era, depicting images beyond the glamour and glitter of professional photography in the 1970s and 1980s

    0Tea Team

    A summer in Rio de Janeiro

    The Olympics are over, but summer in Rio is not: Enjoy these magical pictures of life in the Brazilian metropolis.

    0K.Fochtmann

    Retro style space tourism posters

    Travelling to other planets could be the next big thing in a 100 years or so. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory already set up the advertisement for it. The result are stunning posters in retro design.

    0Tea Team

    How art is saving the lives of refugees in the Mediterranean

    Since October, a floating island has offered a safety zone to refugees in distress at sea: complete with food, life buoys and solar-powered emergency telephones.

    0Tea Team

    Design in Space

    Interview with the first space architect, Galina Balaschova, who designed the interiors of the famous Mir & Sojus space stations.

    0G.Balaschova

    The splendour of the Moscow Metro

    The Moscow Metro has turned its underground hubs into full-scale palaces and temples of transport resembling a gigantic art museum.

    0Tea Team

    The first nomadic design slum museum opens its doors

    In February, the first nomadic design museum in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai has open its doors to honour local craftsmanship.

    0A. Pinatih / J. Mañes Rubio

    Playing in a winter wonderland

    These beautiful pictures of playing squirrels show how similar squirrels can be to human beings.

    0V.Trunow

    Talking about climate

    Ahead of the UN climate summit, artists have installed over 600 artworks criticizing the corporate takeover of the talks.

    0Tea Team

    Zaytoun, the little refugee

    The world’s refugees’ struggle for survival comes alive in a new videogame.

    0M.Tayeb

    The Baltic Design Revolution

    When our thoughts turn to Latvia, the far North, elks, and wide-open spaces immediately come to mind. But this country of just under 2 million inhabitants is turning into an enclave of the creative, especially in design and fashion.

    0K. Budze / E. Parute

    Less is More – the Spanish Bauhaus Renaissance

    The Spanish initiative n'UNDO is bringing the classics of modern architecture back to life. It seeks to integrate sustainable space and urban architecture into local city planning.

    0Goethe-Institut

    El Niño de las Pinturas

    El Niño de las Pinturas

    0El Niño

    Iran: A different view

    Iran: A different view

    0Tea Team

    Stackable & Snackable Lego Candy

    Don't know what to do at the weekend? Here's a funny way to make yourself and probably all of your loved ones very happy: Make edible and stackable lego jellies!

    0Tea Team

    Test your knowledge of the Laws of Armed Conflict

    Can a hospital be targeted if the enemy is inside and targeting you? Get the answer in this brand new quiz app and test your knowledge of the Laws of Armed Conflict.

    0Tea Team

    The Slum Challenge –
    More Than Just a Game

    In the computer game Slum Challenge, Europeans can immerse themselves in life in a Philippine slum from a first-person shooter and wander through real film sequences.

    0M. Cantzler Christensen

    When hospitalised children become superheroes

    What if a child’s hospital stay could be turned into one long superhero adventure? If not only the illness, but also the powers of evil could be vanquished in the end? A new tablet game for young patients will soon make this possible.

    0C.Chenebault

    Contemporary indigenous art from Colombia

    There has been a lot of talking about indigenous art in Latin America - but still, most of us only know traditional art from colonial or even pre-colonial times. But there is so much more out there! We present Fabio Males, a young indigenous artist from Colombia, and his awe-inspiring artwork.

    0F.Males

    The African Superheroes

    African legends come alive in award-winning mobile games and comics.

    1E.Tawia

    The Maya runners:
    Video games from Guatemala

    A heroic Mayan runner and a Quetzal bird that flies between pyramids: Experience Guatemala’s Mayan culture through entertaining videogames.

    0E.Cabria

    From Tangier to Baku -
    it's time for art, time for difference:
    Here's L'Eclectique!

    L'Eclectique is new art magazine hopes to showcase the positive energy and creative spirit of the Arabic world – with exciting stories and moving images.

    0S. Anouar

    Moss Graffiti: Let it green!

    Did you know that you could make graffitis out of moss?

    1The Tea Team

    The Land of the Giants

    The Land of the Giants

    0The Tea Team

    Isla Holbox: the Graffiti Island

    Isla Holbox: the Graffiti Island

    0Tea Team

    Turkey's "Standing Man"

    Sometimes it’s better to do nothing: How Erdem Gündüz kindled a protest movement with his hands in his pockets.

    0E.Gündüz

    Egypt: Walls of Freedom

    During the Egyptian revolution, Cairo’s walls became newspapers of resistance. Mural artist Ammar Abo Bakr tells their story - a story of power, politics and revolutionary fight.

    3A. Abo Bakr

    Art Gallery 3.0 – the Digital Future of Art

    A unique project at the interface of art, lifestyle and technology shows for 4 weeks, 5 exhibitions from 14 artists and combines it with Apple's ibeacon app. A technology first you shouldn't miss!

    0Tea Team

    A short trip to Istanbul

    0K.Fochtmann

    Protest Graffiti Art in Athens

    Do you think that a crisis can make people more creative? It does! Here's the proof: the mood in Athens, Greece might be bad but the creativity in street art explodes.

    1J.Tulke

    From New York to Hong Kong

    0N.Zaboura

    Pigs in Art

    Miss Piggy, Pumbaa, Babe, pigs in space - yes, you might have heard of some really famous pigs. But pigs in art? If that sounds higgledy-piggledy for you: Illustrator & artist Florian Steffens will show you the big piggy world - and more. Oink!

    0F.Steffens

    Tempelhof: An urban oasis in a historical place

    0A.Prost

    Hacking Paris street signs

    In Paris parks, visitors are explicitly instructed to pick up the poop when they walk their … wait a minute, their elephant? French artists have been hacking street signs in Paris - and we've taken pictures of them.

    0Tea Team

    Colombia: When gang members turn to art

    Violent youth gangs are spreading fast in Colombian cities' poor neighborhoods. But thanks to a young initiative from Bogotá, fighters can now gain fame as artists.

    0L. Párraga

    Urban explorations in Latvia

    Photographer Aleksey from Riga climbs into abandoned ruins or up on tower cranes, and he experiences the threats of the cold war when penetrating former bunkers or military training grounds.

    0A.Stemmer

    How a car park turns into a place to be

    Take one sandy car park, two friends and an idea: The result is La Carpa, a creative place where artists, musicians and the people of Seville meet to exchange ideas.

    0A.Kohn

    Colouring Afghanistan

    Would you expect that Afghanistan's first graffiti artist is female? We talked to Shamsia Hassani about graffiti and her home country in Afghanistan.

    0S.Hassani

    The Boxer: the true story of a holocaust survivor as a graphic novel

    An inspiring graphic novel about the life of Jewish boxer Hertzko Haft who survived the WWII death camp because he won the boxing fights organized by the SS.

    0V. Chacón

    Mars da Favela: Crystals not Pistols

    Australian rapper Mars Castro turns bullet casings from Brazil's favelas into jewellery. Bling instead of bang, Mars da Favela instead of Mc Marsepan.

    0div.

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