Monthly Archive: December 2023
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and former London Mayor Boris Johnson have been immortalized in a romantic clinch in the UK. A 15-foot mural featuring the two politicians has appeared on a derelict building...
POLITICAL OR MERELY RASCALLY? ONE WALL DEPICTS LONDON MAYOR BORIS JOHNSON AS A MEMBER OF THE UNDEAD BY THE ARTIST KNOWN AS IRONY As the street artist Pure Evil said recently, people have written...
The UK’s heroes are no longer being honoured in marble on a plinth but with spray paint on a brick wall. Stephen Smith explores what’s behind this artistic revolution. Between a jerk chicken restaurant...
A UK artist has transformed a piece of racist graffiti that appeared on a fence in his town, giving it a more positive message. The vandalism in Walthamstow, north London, read “we speak English”...
An announcement taped to the shopfront said that Banksy will be selling artworks online from as little as £10. A surprise Banksy installation has appeared in Croydon, South London in a previously disused shop...
A 70-metre mural of Argentine football star Lionel Messi is unveiled in his hometown Rosario. “From another galaxy and from my city” is the title of the work, located just a few metres from...
Yemeni artist Alaa Rubil uses the shell-pocked buildings of his hometown as canvas, painting images of death and despair to shine a light on the horrors and victims of war. Not long after the...
After the attempted theft of one of Banksy’s murals in Kyiv, the local government has implemented a new security system to keep the safe and on display when damaged buildings are reconstructed. Kyiv regional...
Reader Chloe sends us these images of what is surely a new Banksy piece in Bethnal Green. And she seems to have captured the face of the artist, hitherto unseen. (However, we’ve seen that...
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday promised a new cleanup crew will tackle the city’s graffiti problem. 1,500 homeless people will be hired for the job. To combat New York City’s graffiti problem, Mayor Bill...