MARSEILLE, France -- The lighthouse appeared overnight. Painted on a wall tucked away in a quiet Marseille street, its beam aligned perfectly with the real-life shadow of a metal post on the pavement.

In recent years, Düsseldorf has witnessed an extraordinary transformation in its urban landscape. Once considered a subversive act or relegated to the fringes of underground culture, graffiti in ...

Graffiti in Berlin has become one of the city's most celebrated and impactful art forms. Over the past few decades, street ...

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The marks I make in my pieces are often highly textural, visual representations of my emotions,” Gilson said. “Why not let ...

About 50 kilometres north of Toronto, contemplating what is probably the most celebrated but least seen example of Richard ...

In 2020, artist Eric Haze relocated to East Hampton where he settled into an artist residency at the Elaine de Kooning House.

Garo Hakimian, a Montreal-based artist, situates his work at the precise juncture between an enigmatic confusion that ...

Initially inspired by the graffiti/street art at Purdown Battery in Bristol where the artists are free to paint on the old war abandoned buildings, Dan only took up painting last year but has ...

This St. George artist paints outside the lines, mixing graffiti and abstract street art into a style that’s unmistakably his. “I call it sad magic,” artist Danny Gutierrez said, standing ...

We chat about how graffiti artists get to see cities from hidden angles, and experience the way that different networks – transport, utilities, people – are superimposed in one location.

the Montreal-based Mastrocola is another artist who has transitioned from the graffiti world to more formal mural work and traditional painting on canvas in an abstract language. Of his two 2014 ...