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Paris Ran a Fashion Empire on Six Hundred Stencil Cutters. Banksy Only Needs One.
A century before Banksy cut his first rat, thirty Paris workshops employed six hundred artisans cutting up to...
Invader Just Tiled Daft Punk, a French Chanson Icon, and the Velvet Underground Onto Paris's Biggest Concert Hall
The anonymous French mosaic artist launched a new wave of pixel-tile installations across the Philharmonie de Paris timed...
A Las Vegas Artist Turned Digital Files Into Spray-Paint Stencils. His Gallery Just Got Voted the City's Best.
Recycled Propaganda's Izaac Zevalking builds murals in Adobe Illustrator before he ever touches a spray can, and Las...
A Queens Bridge Wore the Same Stencil for Eleven Years. The Artist Who Made It Erased His Own Work to End It.
John Fekner hand-cut cardboard stencils to indict industrial decay across 1970s and 80s New York, then painted over...
A 3,600-Pound Bronze Tiger Guarded the Mirage for 31 Years. Now It Lives in a Boneyard While a Guitar Rises Where It Stood.
The Neon Museum unveiled the restored Siegfried & Roy tiger sculpture pulled from the shuttered Mirage, two years...
The Oldest Stencil on Earth Is a Human Hand. It's Older Than the Wheel.
From 35,000-year-old cave handprints to laser-cut Mylar, the stencil never stopped being the fastest way to repeat an...
A Las Vegas Museum Got Tagged on Opening Night. Its Fix Was to Charge Admission to the Free Street Party Next Door.
The Southern Nevada Art Museum got graffitied the night it opened during First Friday, and its director's answer,...
The Mirage Volcano Erupted for 34 Years on the Strip. Its Pieces Just Started Coming Back to Life Three Miles Away.
The Mirage went dark in 2024 and the volcano stopped erupting for good, but the Neon Museum has...
Blek le Rat Stenciled Rats All Over Paris in 1981. Banksy Later Admitted He'd Been Copying Him for Twenty Years.
Decades before Banksy stenciled a single rat in London, a Frenchman named Xavier Prou had already built a...
The Late Show Just Ended After 33 Years. Invader Wouldn't Let Anyone Sell the Mosaic He Left Behind.
CBS shut down Colbert's Late Show after 33 years and auctioned off the set for charity, but the...
York Asked 1,100 Residents What They Wanted on Their Walls. The Answer Was Magpies, a Wolf, and an Otter.
York's first international street art festival landed in a suburb nobody visits, funded by high-street regeneration cash instead...
A Bronx Kid Helped Bend Graffiti Letters Into Jagged New Shapes in the 1980s. His Alphabet Just Landed on a Vape at Your Gas Station.
Robert Provenzano, the wildstyle pioneer known as CES, just became the second artist in a national vape brand's...
A New York Times Investigation Toppled Cesar Chavez's Legacy. Bakersfield Erased His Mural in 24 Hours.
A Bakersfield mural of Cesar Chavez was vandalized with 'Believe survivors' and torn off the wall the next...
Boston Needed a Founding Father for Its 250th Anniversary Mural. It Got a 16-Year-Old Girl Historians Can't Confirm Existed.
Boston's official 250th-anniversary mural skips Paul Revere for Sybil Ludington, a teenage rider whose 40-mile ride has no...
Milwaukee Gave a Dead Broadcaster Its Tallest Wall. The Painter Already Watched One Sports Mural Get Defaced.
Downtown Milwaukee dedicated a 100-foot mural of the late Bob Uecker on June 30, 2026, painted by the...
Portugal's President Handed His Last Official Portrait to a Street Vandal With a Power Drill. He Gave the Fee Away.
Every Portuguese president gets an official portrait. Since the practice began, the format never changed: oil on canvas,...
He Joined the Navy to Get Off the Subway Tracks. Futura 2000 Came Back and Painted the First Graffiti Car With No Letters On It.
Leonard McGurr walked away from New York's rail yards in 1974 and came home to paint Break, a...
Wynwood Walls Declared War on AI This Season. It Gave the Biggest Wall to a Former Sushi Chef.
Miami's most famous street art museum built an entire 2026 mural cycle around what AI can't do, and...
JR Turned Paris's Oldest Bridge Into a Fake Mountain for Christo's Anniversary. The Wind Ripped It Open First.
JR built a 120-meter inflatable cavern over the Pont Neuf to answer Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1985 wrap of...
KAWS Used to Break Into Bus Shelters at Night to Vandalize Ads. Vienna Just Put Him in a Room With Basquiat.
Vienna's Albertina Modern is running KAWS alongside Basquiat, Haring, and Futura 2000 through September, a museum-scale reckoning with...
Dallas Painted Over a 30-Year Whale Mural for the World Cup. The Artist Is Suing for $25 Million.
Wyland's 17,000-square-foot Whaling Wall stood over downtown Dallas for 27 years until FIFA World Cup branding erased it...
Evanston Killed Its Graffiti Walls Twenty Years Ago. Four Artists Who Grew Up on Them Want One Back.
Four Evanston artists who cut their teeth on illegal walls are pushing the city to bring back a...
PichiAvo Waited Two Years to Paint Athens. They Gave the City's Goddess a Mohawk.
A Valencia duo spent two years self-funding their first Greek mural, fusing a self-taught graffiti hand with Athens'...
Banksy Left a Blindfolded Man Falling Off a Ledge in London's Most Imperial Square. Ten Weeks Later, He's Still Falling.
A statue of a suited man blinded by his own flag turned up overnight near London's war memorials...