Feb 20, 2024 Volunteers needed: Do you want to be a part of Benalla’s upcoming street art festival? Photo by Contributed Get ready, Benalla. After a pandemic-induced hiatus, the Benalla Street Art Festival is back bigger and better than ever. Hold tight – we’re checking …
Read MoreCall out for street art festival volunteers as opening day draws close
Feb 20, 2024 Volunteers needed: Do you want to be a part of Benalla’s upcoming street art festival? Photo by Contributed Get ready, Benalla. After a pandemic-induced hiatus, the Benalla Street Art Festival is back bigger and better than ever. Hold tight – we’re checking …
Read MoreUK’s Most Significant Street Art Will Be Digitized Over Next 3 Years
“Owl” by Curtis Hylton, 2022, Royal Mews, Southend, Essex (Photo: Tracy Jenkins, courtesy of Art UK, © the artist) By its very nature, street art is ephemeral. Due to weather, theft, or demolition, mural art is vulnerable to many potential risks. But as a result …
Read MoreBlackCatTips is painting at the corner of street art and folk art
Kyle Brooks, aka BlackCatTips, at Ash Coffee in Virginia-HighlandPhotograph courtesy of Kyle Brooks “I don’t think I’ve ever done an interview while sitting on a bucket,” Kyle Brooks, also known as the artist BlackCatTips, muses while sitting on a blue plastic painter’s bucket. It’s a …
Read MoreWhat happened to Banksy’s graffiti portrait of the Gray Ghost?
The British street art superstar Banksy paid a secretive visit to New Orleans in 2008, leaving behind 14 paintings on walls around the city from the Lower Ninth Ward to Uptown. Most have been destroyed or removed. One of the few remaining artworks, a portrait …
Read MoreMcKinley Park News – Doomed Factory Harbors Labryinth of Chicago Street Art
Demolition is imminent for the Continental Can Co. buildings at 3715 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, which removes not only a piece of the Original East District of the historic Central Manufacturing District, but also many hundreds of works of street art graffiti painted throughout its …
Read MoreJean-Michel Basquiat ‘Phooey’ Screenprint: A Timeless Artistic Legacy
Jean-Michel Basquiat stands as a titan in the art world, his legacy immortalized in the vibrant strokes of his iconic works. Among these, the ‘Phooey’ screenprint, created in 1982 but released in a limited edition in 2021, encapsulates the essence of his genius. Born in …
Read MoreVenice Amplified Street Art by Joel Shields Returns to The City of West Hollywood – WEHO TIMES West Hollywood News, Nightlife and Events
Venice Beach artist Joel Shields, known as Venice Amplified, brought his signature pop-up street art back to the City of West Hollywood last week, this time at Koontz Hardware located at 8914 Santa Monica Boulevard. The installation was situated inside a planter adjacent to the …
Read MoreAn old Cork city laneway is slowly turning into an outdoor art gallery
Myo Cafe owner, Liam Mullaney has taken to Instagram to invite fans on a little stroll down a rapidly expanding street of local art near his busy café on Pope’s Quay. The work has turned Widderling’s Lane into an outdoor art gallery, with several new …
Read MoreVandal Defaces Mural With Swastika and Other Markings
Anti-Semitic graffiti at Herrick Avenue Park & Ride, Eureka. [All Photos by Ryan Hutson] A mural in Eureka’s southern Park & Ride location, part of the city’s 2023 mural festival, was vandalized with a swastika, the letters DANC, and what appears to be the letter …
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