Opinion
Israel Hernández-Llach of Miami was tagging a shuttered McDonalds in Miami Beach when he was approached by police and fled. It's unclear exactly how the situation unfolded from there, but Hernández-Llach was soon dead, the result of a police tazering. The officers claimed that they shocked their vic
Opinion
Jerry Vile's guerrilla addition to Detroit's "Monument to Joe Louis" (aka The Fist) is his tongue-in-cheek way of preparing the citizens of his beloved city to brace themselves …
News
The Australian street artist Peter Drew has found himself at a shocking impasse with the renowned Glasgow School of Art, where he is, ironically enough, only weeks away from completing a Master’s thesis examining the tensions between big institutions and street art.
Opinion
CHICAGO — A Honduran street artist who goes by the name of Urban Maeztro, a translation of "Urban Master," is covering the walls of the country's capital, Tegucicalpa, with posters of art historical images holding neon weapons.
Opinion
This image, depicting the work of British street artist DS, was briefly on the front page of Reddit earlier this afternoon, and it's tremendous.
News
A mural by street artist LNY now dominates the very busy corner of Bedford Avenue and North 6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Books
Penguin UK has released ten editions of ten contemporary classics with covers all commissioned from street artists, using photographs documenting the literary-inspired work.
Art
First it was a faraway hum. Ad Hoc Art returned to Welling Court, Queens, this year. Then it became like drums, still far away, but coming closer, rhythmic. Artists covered 100 walls this year alone. Then hundreds of feet joining drums and percussion and marching in rhythm were nearly upon me in tim
Art
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Sandwiched between the pristine cobblestone streets and bright houses of Old San Juan and the ritzy, high-rise condos of costal Condado lies the neighborhood of Puerta de Tierra. A thin strip of real estate, once part of colonial San Juan but situated just outside the walled
Art
There was a time, some four years ago, when Iran held the world's attention. Protests began there in June 2009, after the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in what many claimed was a rigged vote. A graphic video of the death of a young woman named Neda Agha-Soltan, who was shot by a member
Film
As an ever-increasing amount of street art documentaries appear online, along with pleas for Kickstarter donations to prospective films, I, a longtime street art enthusiast, find it near impossible and entirely overwhelming to try to watch all of these films. With the recent release of yet another s
Art
For a borough with a dense and diverse history, Brooklyn doesn't have much in the way of public historic recognition. Artist Anna Robinson-Sweet's current installation project adds historic plaques around the borough, to highlight what has been forgotten.