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Bought to be Destroyed: Artist Ron English Will Whitewash His New Banksy

Street artist Ron English paid over $730K for a work of art by Banksy - and he plans to paint over it. It might sound like some kind of silly high-profile artist feud, but English harbors no ...

Cross-Stitch Murals Bring a Traditionally Domestic Craft Out Into the World

Often viewed as the domain of women within the home, the art of cross-stitch embroidery escapes its boundaries and finds a new footing within the modern world in works by Aheneah, also known as ...

Fake News: Miniature Signs Around the City Convey Confusing Messages

If all the official signage that can be found around an average city bores you, you might not even notice the ones that are a little bit off, warning you of dangerous pigeons and tiny sinkholes ...

Seven-Story Neoclassical Painting by William Bouguereau Looms Over Memphis

A little girl from William Bouguereau’s 1886 painting 'Au pied de la falaise' looks out over the city of Memphis from the side of a seven-story building, freed from the original work's confines ...

Pothole Pests: Street Artist Repairs NYC Road Damage with Mosaic Vermin

New York City’s most loathed and celebrated vermin are preserved for posterity in a series of new pothole mosaics by artist Jim Bachor. Inspired by the legendary grit of the city and the ...

Hands to the Wall: Chile Unveils Tactile Street Art for the Visually Impaired

In Santiago, Chile, six murals offer visually impaired people the chance to experience large-scale works of street art by Chilean artists through touch panels, braille and audio descriptions. ...

Purse Spective: Thrashbird’s Valley Of Secret Values

Street artist Thrashbird has gone off the beaten track to transform huge stone blocks at an abandoned concrete factory into enormous designer handbags. Like Banksy, LA-based Thrashbird ...

Prismatic Pride: 20+ Rainbow-Centric Murals & Street Art Installations

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 ...

Chrome Master: Gleaming Metallic Street Art by Puerto Rican Pro Bik Ismo

As striking and skillfully painted as each one of Bik Ismo's chrome murals are, the coolest part might just be peering into each one and trying to discern what's in its reflection. It might just ...

Invader Returns to Los Angeles with a New Series of Fun Pixelated Mosaics

A French street artist known only as 'Invader' just got done dropping over a dozen new mosaic tile installations all over Los Angeles while in town for the group show Beyond the Streets. The best ...

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