Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer of London studio Yum Yum know that sometimes life can be struggle after frustration after giant meat obliteration.

If you weren’t forced to endure a horrid class on media theories in your first year of university (lucky!), the word “Panopticon” might be totally foreign to you. It was a name given, in 1785, to a prison building, whose designed allowed prisoners to be observed at all times, without being able to do any observing of their own. It’s also used as a contemporary metaphor for things like CCTV and shows like Big Brother.

In February last year, New York’s Museum of Modern Art hired a guy called Doug Jaeger to design some subway ads for their most extensive and expensive advertising campaign ever. Rather than trying to fight against vandalartist Poster Boy and his razor-wielding buds (who would, inevitably, want to make some adjustments to the self-adhesive re-creations of the gallery’s most famous works), Jaeger recruited him. Dressed in official MoMA jackets, they were allowed total access and privacy to an entire subway tunnel-cum-gallery.

Then Jaeger got fired from the museum.

If you live in Melbourne and you’re unfamiliar with the Everfresh crew, then it’s possible you’re an impostor and are not from Melbourne after all (wat?). The local collective – comprised of artists, Makatron, Meggs, Phibs, Prizm, Reka, Rone, Sync, The Tooth, and Wonderlust – have been shaping the urban landscape since 2003, and are responsible for some of the city’s most revered public art displays. In fact, you know how people say that in London, you’re never more than nine-feet from a rat? Well, in Melbourne, you’re never more than nine-feet from an Everfresh piece.

1. After updating his website last week, and confirming his hand in a few suspected pieces in Hastings and Glastonbusy, Banksy is back, with a new installation in the seaside town of Brighton. The piece, entitled Pier Pressure, features a tuna net-draped dolphin attempting to jump over a leaking barrel of BP-branded oil. Locals seem to be feeling it…

German street artist Swanski took the guys from Cologne’s Arty Farty Gallery outside to show what can be done with a blank canvas and a little paint.

JonOne in an intriguing artist. Although his approach to his art may seem unconventional his theories behind them are practical. A collaboration between online magazine BRKW and director Narbru this short doco explores French/American painter and graffiti artist JonOne and his practices as we are taken into his studio and home.

For his new public work, Berlin artist Karl Addison left his sketchbooks at home and took his markers to the walls of an abandoned beer factory to create Naptime.

To coincide with Nike’s World Basketball Festival, the sportswear giant got together with Make Something!! and held a series of workshops in New York. Among the artists roped in to assist with the program was V Magazine editor, Emma Reeves, Cassette Playa’s Carri Mundane, and celebrated photographer, Ari Marcopoulos.

You know that feeling you get when you look at a portrait and it’s so life-like that you have to tell yourself it’s not just a person sitting behind a frame? The work of Alexa Meade is going to cause you to do double- and triple-takes next time you’re in the gallery.