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Keith Haring Turned a Subway Wall Into a Language the Whole World Learned
How a busboy with a chalk stick built one of the most legible visual languages of the twentieth...
Las Vegas Wrote Murals Into the Building Permits. The Arts District Never Used to Need Permission.
Las Vegas just made murals a condition of a construction permit in the neighborhood that used to hand...
Las Vegas Chinatown Got a $12.5 Million Makeover. It Started With Two Dragons and 69 Murals.
Two dragons watch over Las Vegas's Chinatown now. One is gold and coils across the entrance of a...
Police Said They Caught the Only Man Behind Melbourne's Pam the Bird Graffiti. Then Someone Climbed a 140-Meter Bridge Tower and Painted It Again.
Eighteen months after Victoria Police arrested the man they called the sole creator of Melbourne's viral Pam the...
A Q Train Got Tagged With Jalen Brunson's Name in Gold Hours Before the Knicks' First Parade Since 1973
MTA workers found a Q train coated in orange and blue Knicks graffiti in a Manhattan rail yard...
America's 250th Birthday Got a Cover Star. He's Been Arrested More Than 15 Times for Putting Art on Walls.
TIME handed the cover of its America's 250th anniversary issue to Shepard Fairey, a street artist with a...
Downtown Brooklyn Turned 21 Street Crossings Into One Flower. A Woman From Ecuador Painted It by Hand.
Carla Torres's 'Brooklyn Blossoms' spreads one flower-and-bird composition across 21 painted Shared Streets, the fifth straight year Downtown...
Austin Spent Six Years Defending a Mural That Said 'Black Artists Matter.' One Letter From the State Ended It.
Texas ordered Austin to erase the Black Artists Matter mural and a rainbow crosswalk as road-marking violations, and...
Las Vegas Turned Its Monthly Street Party Into a Scavenger Hunt. One Muralist Is Why People Keep Showing Up.
First Friday's 2026 'Seek and Find' season is built around a resident muralist who paints classical sculptures in...
Wu-Tang Clan Got a Staten Island Corner Renamed for Them in 2019. This Year They Painted a Mural There for the Co-Founder Who Died First.
Oliver 'Power' Grant helped build Wu-Tang Clan's business empire and died in February 2026; four artists just painted...
Binion's Horseshoe Lit Up Downtown Las Vegas With Eight Miles of Neon. This December the Neon Museum Turns the Sign Back On.
The Neon Museum is relighting Binion's Horseshoe's landmark 1980s sign this December, bringing back a piece of the...
A Las Vegas Kid Tagged Walls Illegally at 13. Now the Palms and the Linq Pay Him to Do It
Matthew Murphy went from illegal tags to commissioned murals at Vegas casino resorts, and he's trying to talk...
A Queens Artist Stenciled the Word 'Decay' on a Burned-Out Bronx Block in 1980. Ronald Reagan Campaigned in Front of It Two Weeks Later.
John Fekner hand-cut cardboard stencils and sprayed 'Decay' and 'Broken Promises' across Charlotte Street in the South Bronx...
A Reservation Youth Center Turned a Graffiti Jam Into 125 Murals. This Week Eleven More Artists Show Up in Eagle Butte.
The Cheyenne River Youth Project's RedCan, the only graffiti jam in Indian Country, hits its 12th year July...
A San Francisco Street Artist Steals City Grates, Stencils a Cartoon Art Snob on Them, and Sells the Metal Back for Real Money
An anonymous Mission District artist named Ongo prys loose San Francisco's sidewalk grates and transit signs, stencils a...
Area15 Built 30 Murals and 48 Sculptures Over Six Years. This Year It Finally Gave Them a Tour Guide.
Area15 turned its sprawling, unlabeled Las Vegas art collection into a free audio tour narrated by a robot...
A Rural Somerset Painter Makes Street Art About Saving the Countryside. His Stencils Are Cut by a Laser in East London, Not by Hand.
Harry Bunce paints rabbits and foxes as environmental protest art, and when a stencil needs to cover a...
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,...