"Berlin has a very long history of street art, graffiti and urban art. Urban art needs free spaces and Berlin offered these spaces in the 1980s a lot. Not just the Berlin wall – vacant buildings were also a playground for international street artists". Yasha Young is the director and curator of the recently opened URBAN NATION – the world’s first major institution focused on the cultivation and recording of street art and graffiti. The museum opened late last month after Youn

If ever there was a time for artists to draw inspiration from the blurred lines between reality and artifice in everyday settings – it's now. Mary Henderson's new show, Public Views, at the Lyons Wier Gallery in New York does just that, addressing themes of group identity and the contrast between the public and private self. It shows large collections of people in a variety of settings – exhibitions, political rallies, festivals, sporting events, protests, etc. – but without

Nina Gerada is a multi-disciplinary artist whose body of work is so diverse it could easily satisfy up to five creative professionals and still leave inspiration to spare. Her formal education is in architecture – she completed a Bsc Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and a Diploma in Architecture at the CASS, London Metropolitan University. But aside from architecture, her portfolio includes work in urban design, production design