street art

Banksy's back with surprise daily street art of animals across London

3:24pm August 16, 2024

Banksy has been unveiling stencils and installations depicting animals at different spots around the city every day for more than a week, leaving fans and art critics guessing as to their meaning.

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The Banksy Museum in New York City features replicas of 160 original Banksys.

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A new Banksy Museum has opened in NYC … minus Banksy

5:07am May 28, 2024

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

The new museum is not authorized by the artist — who has explicitly denounced any use of his art for profit.

Emmalene Blake poses for a portrait in front of her mural showing Samia al-Atrash holding her niece Masa Khader, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in October.

A grieving Palestinian, an Irish artist and the mural that brought them together

5:00am February 21, 2024

Artist Emmalene Blake's mural on the wall of a Dublin pub became an iconic image of Gaza's grief. Then one day, she got an Instagram message from the Palestinian woman in the image.

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Twenty-year-old Rusul Ahmed has painted several of the murals in Mosul. She says after the dark period of ISIS, the colorful murals make people happy.

In Iraq's Mosul, art springs up from ruins almost 5 years after the ouster of ISIS

5:22pm March 20, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

This vibrant street art is a sign of the spirited rebuilding going on in the northern Iraqi city, after ISIS was defeated in 2017.

Leesa Kelly of Minneapolis, Minn., has been collecting plywood protest murals with the organization, Save the Boards, since the civil unrest following killing of George Floyd.

Plywood From Boarded-Up Shops Turned Into Art Commemorating Floyd Killing

5:12am March 18, 2021

by Leila Fadel

Put up to protect buildings from civil unrest, the boards have become vehicles of expression for devastated and angry Minnesotans.

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They're the only two female artists working on a Mongolian street mural about the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Michid Enkhbat (stooping) and Odno Bold. The goal they're illustrating: "gender equality."

Mongolia's Hunt For Female Street Artists

12:15pm September 11, 2017

by Katya Cengel

The goal was to paint street murals that illustrate the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. And not to have only male artists — especially for the goal about gender equality.

The work built by French artist JR peers over the U.S.-Mexico border at Tecate, Calif., earlier this week.

As Boy Peers Curiously Over Border Wall, His Artist Asks: 'What Is He Thinking?'

10:52pm September 08, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

JR, a French street artist, hasn't answered that question — and that's the point. His massive artwork on the border, which coincided with the decision to rescind DACA, is the "start of a discussion."

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The graffiti artist, Trek6, painted the Yoruba goddess of the ocean, Yemaya, to honor his Caribbean roots. She symbolizes growth, something that he thinks Hialeah needs.

National

Miami Area Muralists Rouse A New Reputation For An Industrial City

10:34am September 28, 2015

by Mandalit del Barco

A new arts district is taking shape in what was once a booming industrial center. Drab warehouses are canvases for street artists in Hialeah, an affordable alternative to Miami's Wynwood art scene.

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A Philadelphia mural titled You Go Girl by Jetsonorama and Ursula Rucker. This is just one of many murals that the city's Mural Arts Program helped create.

What Right Do Muralists Have To The Buildings They Paint On?

1:52pm June 29, 2015

by Paige Pfleger

Musicians have their instruments, painters have their canvases, and muralists have ... walls. But when the building a mural is on is changing, the muralist has to choose to fight — or say goodbye.

David "Nanook" Cogdill, an American street artist, came to Liberia to create a welcoming mural for a school that had been damaged by riots during the Ebola outbreak.

Baltimore Artist Helps Turn Liberian School Into A Mural Masterpiece

6:50pm May 15, 2015

by Ingrid Gercama

The building was damaged during the Ebola outbreak. How do you welcome kids back? That's the challenge that a team of street artists faced.