Since the upper Paleolithic times, we’ve been painting pictures on walls with many advanced civilizations across the ancient world decorating sacred sites, cities, and tombs with murals meant to ...

What’s in a name? Let’s start off with a clear contention. Street Art, as I see it, is a period. Period. It is today just one of the many sub-groups housed within the larger category of Art, a period ...

French street artist Invader (who prefers to keep his real identity anonymous) has been transforming mosaic tiles into instantly recognizable artworks since the late 1990s. Originally inspired by the ...

Once dismissed as vandalism, it's evolved to become one of the most accessible and powerful art forms on the planet. A voice for the voiceless, a protest against the status quo, a love letter to a ...

Evacuated from my Lower Manhattan apartment and hiding from Hurricane Irene, I find myself thinking about anonymous street art and what it means to art-viewing practices. Different from traditional ...

The most innovative forms of contemporary visual culture are found not in museums or galleries but on the streets. Indeed, some of the most revered and influential artists of our time—Banksy, ...

Before becoming Boulder’s most notoriously anonymous street artist, SMiLE was an only child who was really close with his cat. “I wouldn’t say that my cat was my best friend, but more like a sibling,” ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The first voice heard in the first episode of “Art Outside,” WHYY’s new podcast about ...

“Brazilian graffiti art is considered among the most significant strand[s] of a global urban art movement, and its diversity defies the increasing homogeneity of world graffiti.” – Design Week In ...

Drawing groups help build community and explore new places, like at a recent Urban Sketchers KC event at Family Tree Nursery. Drawing is an an easy hobby that you can take with you anywhere in the ...