What is beautiful to some may be absolutely ugly and offensive to others. There are laws set up to respect people's property.
Knowing the intimate details of the city enables an artist to find the cuts and spots to place art where both the art, and the urban environment, will shine. Look at the streets. They are full with love letters.
Never has philosophy seemed so edgy! Mear One (né Kalen Ockerman), a popular street artist and graphic designer known for making political stateme...
Los Angeles just got a little bit brighter. Last week, artist Duce finished a mural of the cover art for Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros' new...
JR is the world-famous street artist who brought to Los Angeles, the city of beauty and vanity, perhaps what it needs most: wrinkles. Doing what h...
Story comes courtesy of The City Maven. By Alice M. Walton. Artistic murals on private property would be legalized and permitted under a propos...
Last week, artist John Baldessari joined Times art critic Christopher Knight for a public talk at the Hammer Museum. At one point, the conversation tu...
This week at HuffPost Arts we saw the wonder of Burning Man through the eyes of two virgin "Burners," exclaimed "OMG" at ten fascinating artist collab...
Even the world of illegal art has rules of conduct. Falling Whistles, a charity that raises awareness of the ravages of war in the Congo, recently com...
Thank You X has made his mark not just by his Warhol homage, accented with flourishes of paint, but by his preternatural ability to decorate higher-up spots of the Los Angeles landscape.
Via LAist: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced today that it will offer free admission every Monday until August 8, courtesy of British st...
LOS ANGELES — Not so long ago, Cristian Gheorghiu roamed the streets of Los Angeles at all hours, black marker in his pocket, hunting for walls ...
Paying homage to a legendary figure can be risky - you have to make sure your work is large enough to really pay tribute to the person's legacy, while...
In other art-destroying, art-removing news the Urban Outfitters Crayola Shooter piece in Westwood has been defaced with a huge paint stain and tagged ...
Banksy has been popping up all over Los Angeles this week. From a stencil of a boy soldier (armed with crayons) in Westwood to a mischievous Charlie B...
Text and photos courtesy of Melrose and Fairfax. Its official--the biggest name in the game, Banksy, put up some new art in Los Angeles. MELROSEan...
On the heels of our street art slideshow featuring pictures from LA Taco, blog Melrose & Fairfax encouraged us to get in touch with them "if you reall...
We've long admired the street art photography captured in the blog LA Taco, so we got in touch with editor Erich Redson to learn more about what it ta...
Marxist Glue, a new street art show curated by Toks Shoyoye, redefines the Los Angeles community and challenges MOCA.
Each city has its own style in every respect -- food, society, culture, and... street art. Street art, a tamer name for graffiti artists whose work h...
