Monthly Archive: February 2024
Last year, Toronto citizens asked themselves a question that led to an unprecedented law: Why should we have to look at so many billboards? In April 2010, the city instituted taxes and restrictions on...
Street artists turn entire cities into open-air galleries, but there are countless ways to carry out urban art interventions, and they’re at their most fun when they subvert existing structures. Virtually anything can be...
Swiss street art duo NEVERCREW recently completed ‘Sensing Machine No.3,’ a mural outside the historic Paris institution of street art known as Le M.U.R., depicting a whale reflecting the city. The eye-catching piece is the latest...
The world gets a whole lot brighter with the addition of vivid murals incorporating every color of the rainbow, splashed all over public surfaces like apartment buildings, walls, staircases and bridges. Whether they’re officially...
Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla allowed racial harassment of its Black employees to run rampant at its Fremont, Calif., plant and retaliated against some workers who complained, the federal agency charged with enforcing...
Two decades after Rudy Giuliani tried to rid New York City of graffiti, the art form is flourishing—with unexpected consequences. Graffiti artists learn early not to get too attached. Ephemera is as central to...
Ant Steel is not your typical graffiti artist. He’s not the type to scale walls or stealthily spray-paint street corners under the cover of darkness. Steel asks for permission to paint. Always. He’s not interested...
n the wake of the Orlando shooting, people all around the world are standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ community to say, “we support you.” Toronto artist Andrea Manica has done so through artwork—she recently transformed...
Photo: dutchgraffiti Ever look at a graffiti wall and wonder what would happen if you scraped off a bit of paint? Well, Imgur user Paul De Graaf saved you the trouble by chipping away at a wall...
Senor X is an artist based in Gijon, Spain who, just like Banksy, has the ability to make us stop on the street and experience a piece of art. It’s unexpected and it’s fresh;...