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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...
A Providence Mural Honoring a Murdered Refugee Got Torn Down Half-Finished. The Artist Rebuilt It Three Miles Away.
A 43-foot portrait of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska got pulled off a Providence nightclub before the face was...
A Pride Mural Stood at UT Dallas for Four Years. One Unanswered Email Took It Down in Three Weeks.
A viral post from Libs of TikTok got a four-year-old, student-funded Pride mural at UT Dallas painted over...
Atlanta Painted 21 Murals for the World Cup. One of Them Resurrects a Black Neighborhood the City Tried to Erase.
Atlanta is hosting World Cup matches right now, through July 19, with a semifinal still to come. The...
A Decade-Old Invader Mosaic Sat Above a Greenpoint Pizza Shop. Two Men With a Ladder Chipped It Apart Before Dawn.
Two men scaled a Greenpoint building with a ladder before sunrise and pried nearly 20 tiles off a...
The Knicks Won Their First Title in Over 50 Years. A Painted Subway Train Made Sure Nobody Missed It.
A Q train turned up covered in orange and blue Knicks graffiti and Jalen Brunson's name in gold...
One San Jose Tagger Hit 100 Walls Solo. Following His Crew Name Turned Up Two More Arrests and a Gun.
San Jose police tracked the tag GOOB for over a year, and following the name into his crew...
A Teenager Picked Bus Shelter Locks With a Stolen Key in 1996. The Smithsonian Just Cast His Cartoon in 14 Feet of Bronze.
KAWS built his name breaking into ad frames with a skeleton key; the Hirshhorn just installed his bronze...
A Bridge in Rural Oregon Started Growing Cartoon Characters. Nobody Knows Who's Painting Them.
An anonymous artist signing work "Dose" has been painting nostalgic cartoon characters under a Central Point, Oregon bridge...
Someone Ripped 15 Invader Mosaics Off City Walls and Tried to Auction Them. The Artist Sued to Get Them Back.
Invader is suing the parent company of Julien's Auctions over 15 stolen mosaics chiseled off walls in Tokyo,...
It Took a Small Town Two Years and Bake Sales to Raise $50,000. Now a 30-Meter Miner Watches Over Kapunda.
Grain silos don't usually get faces. Kapunda's got one now. A copper miner thirty meters tall, candle burning...
A Philadelphia Teenager Tagged an Elephant to Prove He Wasn't Dead. He Also Invented Modern Graffiti.
Darryl McCray, known as Cornbread, tagged a zoo elephant and a Jackson 5 jet to fight a false...
A Group Blinded a Dozen Cameras With Paint-Filled Water Guns at San Francisco's Trans March. Prosecutors Just Called It Planned.
San Francisco charged two people with felony vandalism for disabling Flock Safety surveillance cameras during the Trans March,...
Bristol's Biggest Street Art Festival Skipped a Year on Purpose. It Came Back With 300 Artists and a David Attenborough Mural.
Upfest took a planned year off in 2025, then returned to Bristol in May 2026 with 300 artists,...
Ventura Turned Its Most Vandalized Ditch Into California's Longest Mural. The County Says It's Cheaper Than Scrubbing Tags.
A flood control channel that ate the graffiti-abatement budget for decades is now a two-thirds-of-a-mile mural of Ventura...
El Mac and RETNA Hadn't Shared a Wall in Ten Years. Their Reunion Mural Is a Portrait of His Own Son.
El Mac and RETNA broke a decade-long split to paint one wall together at Wynwood Walls, and El...
A Milwaukee Mural Took 250 Hours to Paint. It Took One Night to Deface After Giannis Left for Miami.
Days after the Bucks traded Giannis Antetokounmpo to Miami, someone tagged his 53-foot Milwaukee mural, and the artist...
A Teenage Messenger's Ballpoint Tag Made the New York Times in 1971. Every Tag on Earth Still Owes Him Rent.
Fifty-five years ago this month, a New York Times headline turned a Washington Heights delivery kid's tag into...
A $500 Banksy Print From 2006 Just Sold for £96,000. Nobody Can Explain Why.
Banksy's 2006 "Applause" print, once worth $500, hammered for £96,000 at Sotheby's in March 2026 with no clear...
A Construction Fence on Kauai Just Became a 500-Foot Mural. Every Artist Had to Paint Someone Who Shaped Them First.
Eleven artists turned a job-site fence at Common Ground Kauaʻi into Capitol Modern's first major project outside Oʻahu,...