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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...
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...