Tag: graffiti
Spain’s national railway company, Renfe, spends more than €400,000 to remove graffiti from Andalucian trains
EVERY year, thousands of trains are vandalized and last year’s graffiti cleaning costs tallied €413,000 in Andalucia alone.
In addition to the cost, there are...
How Spain’s street artists are changing the public perception of graffiti
URBAN art has often been associated with vandalism.
Graffiti, as a main example, is interpreted by many as a deterioration of communities, an eyesore or...
Costa Blanca serial graffiti vandal in Spain is caught after year-long investigation
POLICE have arrested a Costa Blanca graffiti vandal after a year-long probe to track down the culprit.
The unidentified man scrawled over 50 signs in...
Art & freedom of expression ‘united’ in war against graffiti on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ARTISTS and a local council have worked together to produce a stunning piece of art to refurbish the wall of a sports field in...
Disrespectful vandals scrawl graffiti on Costa Blanca COVID-19 victims memorial in Spain
A Denia sculpture paying tribute to victims of the COVID-19 pandemic has been vandalised.
The heart-shaped 'Corozones' by local sculptor, Modesto Mari, was unveiled in...
‘ALL IN A NAME’ as graffiti signatures reveal identities of vandals at historic site on Spain’s Costa Blanca
FOUR Alicante graffiti artists will have to pay fines of €1,060 each for damaging a historic building after experts used social media to identify...
€22 MILLION train vandals arrested in Spain
NEARLY 100 graffiti vandals who caused €22 MILLION worth of damage to trains in just three years have been arrested in Spain.
The 99 detained...
Vandalised Malaga cultural centre has CCTV installed in police crackdown on graffiti
Police training was put to use as officers in Rincon caught three graffiti artists red-handed
Banksy gets ‘Banksied’ as gallery in Spain exhibits art without his permission
THE work of one of the world’s most controversial graffiti artists is being exhibited without his permission in Spain.
But the guerilla artist, who is...
Mallorca Olive Press asks readers to identify cool dog graffiti artist
Talented graffiti artist spray-painting pooches around Palma
Local by name, international in style
The new cafe, cocktail bar and lounge is an excellent addition in Nueva Andalucia
Romantic Madrid street graffiti celebrates first birthday
A group of five artists decided to etch 22 verses on the ground overnight one year ago
Surf ‘n’ turf in Valdevaqueros, Andalucia’s little slice of Ibiza
No other place better epitomises the hip Tarifa scene than Valdevaqueros, writes Jon Clarke
Could this be a Banksy in Andalucia?
Spotted by Olive Press reader and multimedia artist Jane Jewson on the road from Casares to Gaucin, two lifelike soldiers in battle dress square up to each other on the side of a ruined building
God’s own Banksy in Barcelona
Spain’s very own Michelangelo tarts up Barcelona church - but it’s not graffiti, he claims
Maximilian Bartie
Disgruntled of Andalucia (Formerly Royal Tunbridge Wells) puts the world to rights
Caught with his pants down
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE by Jon Clarke: Ancient-monument defacing vandal gets humiliating comeuppance