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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,...
A Tulsa Teenager Tagged 'Mango' Over 100 Times. His Arrest Turned Up a Gun and Meth in His Dad's Pants.
Tulsa tied an 18-year-old to $110,000 in graffiti damage, then his father's arrest for a drug scale added...
A Hollywood Actor Just Curated Belgium's Biggest Street Art Festival. He Signed the Best Wall Under His Old Graffiti Name.
Matthias Schoenaerts curated Ostend's tenth Crystal Ship festival under his teenage tag Zenith, and ROA marked the anniversary...
Wu Wear's Founder Died in February. Staten Island Just Gave Him a Second Mural Three Blocks From His First One.
Oliver "Power" Grant built the business behind Wu-Tang Clan and never rapped a bar; four artists just gave...
Asbury Park Handed a Portuguese Artist Its Trash. He Built a Family of Foxes Out of It.
Bordalo II turned a boardwalk's worth of donated plastic waste into a trio of trash foxes, and a...
Someone Spray-Painted Slurs Inside a $2.1 Billion Stadium. The Bills Are Paying $100,000 to Find Out Who.
Anti-LGBTQ and pornographic graffiti halted construction at the Buffalo Bills' new Highmark Stadium months before its ribbon cutting,...
Portland Spent Years Chasing a Tagger Named Bier. His House Turned Out to Be a Gun Factory.
A Portland tagger convicted on 51 criminal mischief charges got four years in prison after a search warrant...
The FBI Just Put Your Spray Can on a Terror Watchlist. An Anarchist Symbol Is Enough to Get Flagged.
A leaked FBI counterterrorism report tells local police that anti-capitalist graffiti, including tags like ACAB, can be a...
A Houston Mural Was Supposed to Last Six Months. Twelve Years Later, Its Artist Has a Standing Gig at the Hobby Center's Front Door.
GONZO247 painted a 2013 marketing mural that was built to last six months; it's still Houston's most-photographed wall,...
Two São Paulo Twins Painted Their Dreams Yellow. Their Characters Have Since Covered a Boeing 737 and Six Grain Silos.
OSGEMEOS turned childhood scarcity into a signature yellow-skinned universe that has since covered a Brazilian national team's plane,...
Portland Spent Years Chasing a Tag Called Rango. It Ended With 150 Cans of Spray Paint and One 22-Year-Old's Arrest.
A years-long Portland graffiti investigation into the prolific 'Rango' tag ended with a Cedar Mill 22-year-old's arrest and...
Cesar Chavez Got Painted Off a Chicago Mural in a Single Weekend. Dolores Huerta Said He Raped Her Twice.
A New York Times investigation into decades of sexual abuse allegations against the farm labor icon triggered a...
Berlin's Gardeners Turned a Grey Noise Barrier Into a Street Art Gallery. It Sits a Few Miles From the Wall That Started It All.
Local allotment gardeners in Schöneweide asked one artist to paint over a dead noise barrier. A year later...