• Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Membership

street art

Posted inArt

A Street Artist’s Whimsical Interventions Turn the City into a Playground

by Monica Uszerowicz July 28, 2017

The New York-based street artist Tom Bob has a knack for bringing mundane bits of the cityscape to cartoonish life.

BKFOXX mural in progress at Market Surplus
Posted inArt

Artists Fill a Lower East Side Building with Murals Before It’s Demolished

by Benjamin Sutton June 23, 2017

Before it’s razed, 140 Essex Street is hosting a one-weekend exhibition featuring 10 murals by 10 artists.

Posted inNews

Artists Protest Sexual Violence and David Choe’s Bowery Mural

by Danielle Tcholakian June 19, 2017June 20, 2017

On Sunday afternoon, 18 artists gathered in front of David Choe’s mural, which was recently painted over, to protest rape culture in light of the street artist’s own history.

Posted inNews

David Choe’s Controversial Bowery Mural Tagged with Giant Letters [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon June 12, 2017June 18, 2017

The graffiti crew Big Time Mafia has scrawled its initials across Choe’s controversial Lower East Side mural, completed less than a week ago.

Posted inNews

Bushwick Street Artists Threaten Legal Action Against McDonald’s for Using Their Work

by Claire Voon April 19, 2017April 19, 2017

The work appeared in a Dutch ad titled “McDonald’s Presents the Vibe of Bushwick NY.”

Posted inArt

World’s Largest Street Art Museum Takes Shape in Amsterdam

by Elena Goukassian April 3, 2017April 3, 2017

Curator Peter Ernst Coolen discusses his plans for a street art museum in a former shipbuilding warehouse in north Amsterdam.

Posted inNews

At the World Trade Center, a Familiar Tale of a Developer Exploiting Artists

by Claire Voon March 21, 2017April 25, 2017

Since last summer, artists have been invited to create works for free on the 69th floor of Four World Trade Center, a raw space that was recently leased to Spotify.

Posted inIn Brief

Artist Traffics in Road Signs that Land Him in a Jam

by Benjamin Sutton March 16, 2017March 17, 2017

Franck Allais drew controversy for installing a yield sign with the silhouette of a Hasidic man in an ultra-Orthodox London neighborhood.

Posted inNews

Street Artist Marks “Future Internment Camps” Around the US

by Claire Voon March 7, 2017

Over the weekend, Plastic Jesus affixed 50 signs to construction sites throughout the country that read, “Lot reserved for: Future Internment Camp.”

Posted inArt

A Photographic Tour of London’s Art-Filled Streets

by Luna Park January 10, 2017January 10, 2017

The British capital continues to be a playground for artists who use the walls as their canvas.

Posted inArt

Setting Aluminum Animals Loose on the Streets of Detroit

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 28, 2016

On a recent frigid, polar vortex night, husband-and-wife public art duo Hygienic Dress League set out in a van with a flock of aluminum-molded animals.

Posted inNews

Anti-Trump Quarters Pop Up Across the US [UPDATED]

by Hrag Vartanian November 8, 2016November 8, 2016

These real-looking anti-Trump coins are popping up across the US but no one appears to know who is making them. Any ideas?

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 21 Older posts

Popular

  • You've Heard of Wordle, But Have You Tried "Artle"?
  • Notes and Pictures From Frieze New York
  • Yarn Against the Patriarchy
  • Eye Contact Fires Up Brain Cells, Yale Study Says 
  • Walter Murch Sought to “Paint the Air” Between His Eye and His Subject
Sponsored
  • FAT HAM at the Public Theater Spins Shakespeare Into a Celebration of Community
  • Triennial of Photography Hamburg Reflects on Currency
  • NOMA Presents Katherine Choy: Radical Potter in 1950s New Orleans
  • ArtYard’s Ecstatic Decrepitude Features Works by Bread and Puppet Founder Peter Schumann
  • Discussion Series Pairs 2019 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows With Critics and Curators
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2022 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy