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A show of graffiti art at London’s Piccadilly Circus that included Banksy and other prominent practitioners of the form was shut down on Thursday over—well, kids, it was shut down over graffiti.
Graffiti is not just a metaphor of defiance. I believe that public art can breathe new life into Chicago’s blighted communities. On the walls of shuttered grocery stores and the boarded-up ...
By Max Lakin Martin Wong got in with the graffiti writers in the early 1980s at Pearl Paint, the long-gone Canal Street art supply store, where he had a job in the canvas department. Wong would ...
SOMETHING TO GO SEE, SOMETHING TO DO. AND THROUGH GRAFFITI ART AND BASEBALL, THEY’RE HOPING TO INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION TO CREATE CHANGE IN NEIGHBORHOODS THEY SAY HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED.
Julian's team, conscious that new Banksys are under immediate threat from street cleaners, the weather, rival graffiti artists and other art dealers, promised he'd be in Margate within the hour ...
On Friday (April 11), activist art collective Indecline posted a photo of a billboard that they had revised overnight. Advertising a Saturday set from Clairo at the Outdoor Theatre, initially ...
Known as Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artist, Hassani, born in 1988, often makes her art on bombed or abandoned buildings. A versatile artist, equally comfortable with a can or a brush ...
Rocking the get-up, the graffiti star live-painted an old-fashioned tram in Shek Tong Tsui last week. An “art provocateur” (someone who creates slightly controversial works to spark debate ...
The graffiti has become a self-perpetuating movement. The images provoke the government, which responds with acts of cruelty that only increase the resolve of the artists. Much of the street art ...