Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Abstract geometrist and Street Artist MOMO is still sweeping across a massive brick wall in his cherry picker as he leads Open Walls Baltimore across the finish line with more than twenty artists and murals spread across these blocks straight off "The Wire" TV series.

Last Friday morning all was going normally on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn as the cool, crisp breeze of a sunny May day made New York as it often is: Glorious. Up and down the sidewalk smartly dressed professionals hurriedly carried coffees and pushed baby carriages as meandering tourists stared...

Capital Soars with Huge New International Street Art Murals

An Amazing Week in DF with Interesni Kazki, El Mac, Saner, Sego, Roa, Herakut, Vhils, and Escif

Gazing out at the sweep of metropolis that is modern Mexico City, you'll have to catch your breath once in a while. A culture...

"Worked in some countries -- in others, not so much."

Newsflash: Global Street Art is not homogeneous. If you were beginning to think that international Street Art superstars like Banksy and Shepard Fairey had the whole scene on lockdown, Jim Avignon can assure you that will never happen. Each local...

Cities in all the hemispheres take turns being the pre-eminent location for street art and street culture as the influences that lead to a lively scene cropping up in a city and becoming popular are in continual flux. Whether its economics, demographics, politics, or the various timelines of cultural evolution...

Why One Brooklyn Stick Up Kid is Worth Watching

Sometimes on the street you get an inkling of the future. It could be an overheard excerpt from a cell-phone conversation about a club show the night before, or the color and texture of woman's blouse as it flutters around her...

The German Street Art Duo and "Berlistanbul"

A cobalt blue streak sweeps through a narrow street in Istanbul as Various and Gould don fluorescent orange work vests and push brooms with a purpose. The lunchtime crowd gathers a few steps back and to the sides to witness a remarkable cloud...

It's not that light artist Chris Jordan didn't find the sweeping supersonic jet-shaped façade of the church inspiring. He just wanted to make it visible again to the people in town.

Hallgrímskirkja, the Lutheran church in the center of Reykjavík, with it's soaring steeple and outstretched wings...

A block-long limestone mansion originally built as a welfare hotel for the retiring rich invites streetwise Graff artists and others to gild it's decayed rooms, raising it from pigeon-infested squalor. Call it "This Side of Paradise"

Enter a discussion about the impact of the modern Street Art movement and someone...

Abuse of a child is against the law worldwide. Unless international laws are enforced, it makes no difference.

Brooklyn based Street Artist Swoon is lending her name and her talent to a legal organization which seeks justice for women and girls who have been raped and otherwise abused.

The fine...

1978 and 2012 seem closer to one another than ever when we look at the blossomed Street Art scene in cities around the world. More than 30 years after Keith Haring moved to New York as an art school kid at the School of Visual Arts, a new generation of...

Street Art goes high-fashion for '13 with Street Artist Judith Supine

One image of a mysterious acid-green faced woman with pink flowers in her hair on a black brick wall reappears across a Ready-To-Wear line during Fashion Week by India-based designer Manish Arora.

Street Artist Judith Supine shook slim hips...

Artist Jean Seestadt Plants a Package in a Bus Stop

Since the never-ending "War on Terror" commenced so publicly a decade or so ago, an intermittently insistent campaign exhorting the public to be aware of odd things and behaviors has beat a steady message of fearful dread in New York....

The New York Street Artist Talks About Agony, Painting and UFOs

Inside out. The words capture the dynamic of an artists journey to the canvas -- and the Street Artists trip to the wall. Cake, her street name, has been hitting New York streets for five years with some of...

New Images of Street Art for Valentines Day

If Street Art reflects society back to itself, and we contend that it does, then we must be in love. Among the myriad sentiments you'll find on the street are those that are politically angry, socially strident, or comically sarcastic. Additionally we...

Be Sure to Ride the 14 Foot Long "F*ck Bike"

"F*ck Art", an undulating and adventurous group show by New York Street Artists opens its arms and legs to you at the Museum of Sex (MoSex) tomorrow and whether it's the human powered penetrating bicycle...

Philadephia born New York Street Artist Stephen Powers AKA ESPO has been covering walls in Brooklyn since last summer with puns, phrases, and messages that hide in plain sight. Borrowing from a visual vocabulary of mid 20th century commercial signage and injecting his low-brow sarcasm and a knack for wordplay,...

Philadephia born New York Street Artist Stephen Powers AKA ESPO has been covering walls in Brooklyn since last summer with puns, phrases, and messages that hide in plain sight. Borrowing from a visual vocabulary of mid 20th century commercial signage and injecting his low-brow sarcasm and a knack for wordplay,...

It's been an excellent year for street art all over the world and we've had the pleasure of seeing a lot of great stuff from both big names and anonymous sources. Eye popping, brain-teasing, challenging, entertaining, aspirational and inspirational - it's all happening at once. We've been walking the streets,...

Opening under cover of night somewhere in Paris, four stories beneath la rue, a secret subterranean gallery in a sealed tunnel appears suddenly. While activity on the street overhead is hectic and dense with cars, trucks and pedestrians, the dry dust is ankle-high here in this darkened, silent morgue—its cool,...