Roa hits Berlin this tomorrow with a two fold agenda – one, open Transit at Skalitzers Contemporary Art; two, launch his new book, ROA: An Introduction To Animal Representation.

Transit, the exhibition, focuses on the cycle of life through works produced during a ten day passage in Berlin. The new material will be on view through August 6, 2011.

Skalitzers Contemporary Art
Skalitzer Strasse 43
10997 Berlin – Kreuzberg
U1 Gorlitzer Bahnhof

Preview Transit after the jump.

My friends over at Living Proof caught Kenny Scharf in the act of painting his latest mural – located at 13th and Samsom in Philadelphia, PA. Two of the artist’s signature creatures form the start of the project, with much more to come as the week closes out.

More photographs of the new Scharf mural in Philadelphia after the jump.

Marc and Sara, famed for their Wooster Collective website, speak at the TEDxBloomington event.

At TEDxBloomington, the Schillers described how, after 9/11, they spent more time walking their NYC neighborhood. Seeing unexpected artwork including a series of shrines caused them to become ever more intrigued by ephemeral art. Their slides showed the audience a new view of public, uncommissioned art that enriches the public arena, and wrests some attention away from ubiquitous commercial advertising messages.

One of several SheOne woks in the current Rudimentary Perfection exhibition at Glasgow’s Recoat, “Virgo” is a wonderful example of the artist’s abstract typography. Done with spray paint on paper, the painting measures at 53 x 53 centimeters.This original work of art is available from Recoat for 500 pounds.

View details after the jump.

“The Mercenary” is the latest work by collage/street artist Ludo. These images appeared yesterday, July 4, 2011. Visit Ludo for more info.

Noted back in January, the prolific Blu has chronicled all his animations, drawings on paper and time-lapse murals in one single disk! The DVD, BLU:Sketch Note-Book, is now available from colette. The film is in English, and the DVD is formatted for all regions.

Seb Caudron joined Sartoria for an exclusive sneak peek of the Kindergarten exhibition, a closer look at Futura’s “AK46″ installation.

Phlegm’s enjoying Summer in Yorkshire. “Unicycle Balloon” is the artist’s latest mural. Enjoy!

Arrested Motion shares this fantastic find – “Wow. We sat down to scan through the Megunica documentary real quick but ended up watching the whole thing. The film first made rounds in 2009 or so and has won multiple awards at various film festivals but we don’t think there has been an easy way for street art fans get ahold of it – until now. Wired Italy has now made the entire film, all 83 minutes of it, available streamed on their website.

For those unfamiliar, the footage follows Blu on a trip to South America through the countries of Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Argentina. The film follows the Italian street star as he paints and as the crew interact with other people and other artists – basically tracking their adventures. What is particularly enjoyable are all the little animations and the different techniques they use in the process inserted throughout the film. At the end the film, you can definitely see this is when Blu started perfecting his now famous graffiti-animation style. As a bonus, you should read Wired’s interview with the director – Lorenzo Fonda.”

While preparing his exhibition at White Walls earlier in the year, Roa made sure to leave a lasting impression on the city of San Francisco. Unurth has compiled the work, which follows on the signature large scale black and white animals we’ve come to expect from the Belgian. Still, they continue to impress and find dynamism not just in subject, but also in a deft understanding of how to play off location.

More Roa after the jump.