Evacuated from my Lower Manhattan apartment and hiding from Hurricane Irene, I find myself thinking about anonymous street art and what it means to art-viewing practices. Different from traditional ...

It's at Miami's Museum of Graffiti, which bills itself as the first museum in the world dedicated to graffiti and street art. The museum is located in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, an art-forward ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — When I asked artist Rx Skulls where to shoot graffiti and street art when I came to town this past April, his most emphatic suggestion was Taylor Electric. Because Portland has a zero ...

From a parking lot on the corner of 12th and Figueroa streets, Michael Lopez carefully commandeered his drone through the skyline around LA Live. A video screen showed the drone’s slow ascent. Up and ...

Street art once found primarily in subways and abandoned spaces is now an art form zooming to stardom. Today, graffiti and street artists are often commissioned to create works that can be found in ...

In the 1980s, where most subway riders in New York viewed stations as mere stops on their daily commutes, Keith Haring spotted a prime canvas. “I remember noticing a panel in the Times Square station ...

Once dismissed as vandalism, it's evolved to become one of the most accessible and powerful art forms on the planet. A voice for the voiceless, a protest against the status quo, a love letter to a ...

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Say the words “Roman art,” and your average listener will likely think of classical statues, ornate churches and the masterworks of Michelangelo, Caravaggio and their contemporaries. But to a select, ...

Tucked away in bushland on Western Australia's south coast, a hidden World War II site has become a sprawling canvas for street artists from all over the world.

In December, a work crew whitewashed a blocky antique building at the river end of Elysian Fields Avenue. An elegant spray-painted portrait of a New Orleans blues artist was erased, along with murals ...

Graffiti made up of 24 stenciled Chinese characters sprayed in red paint against a white backdrop across walls in London divided street art lovers and the online communities over the weekend. Some ...