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15 Best Cities For Street Art

The Huffington Post | Leigh Silver | Posted 05.09.2013 | Arts

A spray-painted image or unnamed sculpture are the modern street artist's ghostly footprints on the world at large. We can thank figures like the ...

WATCH: Artist Creates Graffiti With Discarded Food

Posted 05.09.2013 | Green

People in developed countries throw away 30 to 50 percent of food, according to a report released earlier this year. To call attention to this massive...

How Far Would You Go To Express Yourself?

David McCauley | Posted 04.27.2013 | TED Weekends
David McCauley

2013-01-18-TEDplayvideo.jpgPerseverance as well as patience are personality traits that you will undoubtedly learn in order to overcome the tremendous obstacles that paralysis creates. How far would you go to express yourself? How often would you fail before you give up?

The Fascinating History Of Graffiti

Tomas Olesen | Posted 04.26.2013 | TED Weekends
Tomas Olesen

2013-01-18-TEDplayvideo.jpgThat Tempt's tag is so clean, that his style is so apparent it looks like he drew it with his hand, is incredible. The fact that he's produced work for a joint show alongside the cream of street art, just using his eyes, is mind-blowing.

The New Face of Tel Aviv Street Art

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 04.24.2013 | Arts
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

As more cities join the world street art scene, thanks largely to an enthusiastic youth culture sharing images across the internet and handheld device...

Kenny Scharf Got Arrested for Snake Graffiti and Spent 20 Hours in Jail in Brooklyn

ARTINFO | Posted 04.23.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

"Just spent 20 hours in 2 Brooklyn jails for this," Kenny Scharf wrote on Facebook when posting the above image of one of his signature graffiti piece...

Renowned Photographer Gets A Big Birthday Surprise

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 05.11.2013 | Arts
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

"I can't believe it. I never expected this, ever." The famed Houston Street Wall was the site of a sidewalk surprise birthday party Saturday for phot...

The Disturbing Discovery I Made In An Old Photo Of Myself

Candace Walsh | Posted 05.07.2013 | Parents
Candace Walsh

I stood looking at the photo. No one would think we were the same person. My hair was long again, my figure was trim and my kids were tall and lanky, bounding around the store. There was the ghost of motherhood past, staring back at me with bleary eyes.

Settle Down, Graffiti

Posted 03.04.2013 | Comedy

Graffiti has a relatively short, but no less glorious artistic tradition. Its potential for social impact, by way of its existence in the public spher...

A New Reason To Fear Public Bathrooms

Posted 02.21.2013 | Comedy

There are a lot of reasons why using public restrooms can be terrifying. Weird smells. Ominous noises. Faulty locks. And don't even start thinking abo...

How Banksy Played The Art Market...And Won

ARTINFO | Posted 04.09.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

Banksy gave up spraying freehand graffiti back in the early 1990s when he discovered that stencils were more "quick, clean, crisp, and efficient," as ...

LOOK: Graffiti Artist Uses NYC Rooftops In Romantic Way

The Huffington Post | Erin Migdol | Posted 02.07.2013 | Weddings

One New York artist didn't shout his love from the rooftops -- he graffitied it! Jason "Jay Shells" Shelowitz proposed to his girlfriend, Rachel We...

You Are Not Bradley Manning

Phil Campbell | Posted 04.08.2013 | Arts
Phil Campbell

His face is painted as a mural on the wall of a brick building next to a deli in my neighborhood. The mural is simple and carelessly done, but it always holds the power to jar me out of my post-work stupor.

Imprints of Sidewalk Graffiti

Brigitte Engler | Posted 04.06.2013 | Arts
Brigitte Engler

On the sidewalks of the Lower East Side in New York City where I live, people write graffiti into the concrete. As I walk around with my dog Sage, I take notes of their location to come back later to make rubbings of them, my dog Sage, by my side.

The Racist Graffiti At One WTC

Posted 01.28.2013 | New York

Last week the Associated Press detailed the hopeful and defiant messages scrawled by construction workers on the iron and concrete of One World Trade ...

Lance Armstrong Doping Scandal Satirized

ARTINFO | Posted 03.24.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner who admitted during a recent TV interview with Oprah Winfrey that he had taken performance-enhan...

New York City's War on Graffiti

Adam Mansbach | Posted 03.24.2013 | Books
Adam Mansbach

The subway's exteriors have been art-free since 1989, but the war has never really ended. New York City remains rigidly opposed to the very aesthetic of graffiti -- even if the art in question is perfectly legal.

'We Kind Of Had A Very Disturbed Childhood'

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 03.17.2013 | Arts
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

It is an age of self-discovery, and the twins continue to be surprised by what they find as they attack huge walls with zeal and precision in New York...

Innovative Vermin: The Awkward Irony of Graffiti

Brian Glenney, PhD | Posted 03.17.2013 | Arts
Brian Glenney, PhD

Is there a qualitative difference between the graffiti that the art world loves, and the more common tagging that city officials and much of the public equate with the urinary habits of canines? 2013-01-15-graffitipull.jpg

OMG, A Graffiti Treasure Map

ARTINFO | Posted 03.09.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

By mapping all of 311's graffiti complaints by neighborhood, Gothamist has created a handy guide that most likely best reflects which areas of New Yor...

'Fire Extinguisher Graffiti' Defaces Detroit's Buildings

Motor City Muckraker | Posted 01.03.2013 | Detroit

The nearly 90-year-old CPA building on Michigan Avenue is streaked with turquoise paint, and its ornate, limestone entrance defaced. On the east si...

Astoria Characters: The 'Pink' Painter

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 03.04.2013 | New York
Nancy Ruhling

It's an ordinary white garage door, but when Lady Pink rolls it up, the eyes, surprisingly, are assaulted by a kaleidoscope of color. In this space, which was built to house two cars, Lady Pink, The Grandmother of Graffiti, makes her studio.

PHOTOS: Best Street Art Of LA 2012

Gregory Linton | Posted 02.27.2013 | Los Angeles
Gregory Linton

2012 has been a wild ride on the streets of Los Angeles. Melrose and Fairfax is proud to present 20 of our favorite shots for the Best of Los Angeles Street Art 2012.

Paul Brady

PHOTOS: The Surprising City That's Home To This Graffiti-Filled 'Art Alley'

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Brady | Posted 12.17.2012 | Travel

Hidden down an alley in the heart of Rapid City, South Dakota’s buzzing downtown is Art Alley, a graffiti-filled couple of blocks also adorned with ...

Art Is Whatever the Artist Has to Say

Vicky Tiel | Posted 01.28.2013 | Arts
Vicky Tiel

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's home on the Rue de Verneuil became a French historical monument and tourist attraction known for the graffiti art on the walls, doors and grills.