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fromHyperallergic
12 hours ago

Genesis P-Orridge's Subversive Mail-Art Goes on View

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's mail art from the 1970s is showcased in a focused exhibition at Art Metropole, highlighting their early career and subversive practices.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
13 hours ago

Dancing is resistance': Zack Polanski and the Greens bring the party to the ravers

A vibrant nightclub event in Leeds showcased the Green party's growing popularity, led by Zack Polanski, emphasizing joy and community as forms of resistance.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
17 hours ago

London's Last Wilderness review mudflats meets Mad Max towers on eccentric estuary voyage

Pablo Behrens' documentary explores the Thames estuary, blending nature's wildness with remnants of industry through an unseen explorer's perspective.
#homelessness
London
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

When the birdman' of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days

Bikram Lama, known as the 'birdman', died unnoticed in Sydney's St James station, highlighting the invisibility of homelessness.
London
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

When the birdman' of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days

Bikram Lama, known as the 'birdman', died unnoticed in Sydney's St James station, highlighting the invisibility of homelessness.
#public-art
Mission District
fromMission Local
1 day ago

Doug Rhodes, Clarion Alley's only open studio artist

Public art thrives in the Mission, with Clarion Alley showcasing diverse murals and Doug Rhodes' unique artistic contributions.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
5 days ago

Art Without Walls: Inside the Public Art Fund Party | amNewYork

Public art engages communities, inviting them to see their city more honestly and expansively, embodying a sense of belonging and shared experience.
Arts
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Explore Art UK's Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals

Art UK archives over 21,000 public artworks, including street art and murals, to preserve ephemeral experiences and document local history.
fromFuncheap
3 days ago

Free "Art Chalk Party" at Haight/Stanyan (Golden Gate Park)

Join us on Sunday, April 19th, at the entrance of Golden Gate Park at Haight and Stanyan to chalk messages of Love, Hope, and Compassion.
NYC LGBT
Graphic design
fromColossal
5 days ago

NEVERCREW Explores Our Tenuous Relationship with Nature in Huge Murals

NEVERCREW's murals highlight the disconnect between urban life and nature, emphasizing the need for empathy towards the environment.
Design
fromArchDaily
5 days ago

What Textiles and Translucency Bring to Public Space: 5 Lightweight Interventions

Lightweight materials enhance public spaces through flexibility, visual permeability, and adaptability, fostering new relationships between the environment and human experience.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

Artificial intelligence's impact on relationships and society is explored through personal stories and expert insights in Grayson Perry's documentary.
Photography
fromGothamist
5 days ago

Martha Cooper photographed graffiti's origins. Decades later, she's still at it.

Martha Cooper's retrospective showcases her pioneering work in documenting graffiti and urban culture over six decades.
Arts
fromColossal
17 hours ago

Amid Urban Spaces, Alex Senna's Bold Murals Embrace Connection and Belonging

Alex Senna's murals emphasize community, emotional bonds, and togetherness through bold black-and-white compositions set against colorful urban backgrounds.
fromTime Out London
3 days ago

This free London art festival is massively expanding this summer - it'll take over a whole borough

Hackney Art Week will take place from June 4 to 14, featuring 60 artists and creatives across 50 venues in the borough, including Dalston and Clapton.
London
Mission District
fromMission Local
3 days ago

Long-awaited trashcans hit S.F. streets, a Tenderloroadway mural, and more

New initiatives in the Tenderloin include custom trash bins and a mural funded by a beautification grant.
Arts
fromCurbed
18 hours ago

'I Became the Most-Wanted Graffiti Artist in New York'

Lee Quiñones became a prominent graffiti artist in the 1980s, using his art to engage with the city despite opposition from city leadership.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Health of boy thrown from Tate Modern's 10th floor worse after surgery, says family

The family of the boy, who survived a 100ft fall, stated that his rehabilitation is proving longer and more difficult than expected after surgery in January.
London politics
fromianVisits
3 weeks ago

London's Alleys: Overton Yard, Croydon, CR0

The Page & Overton's Brewery started in a small red brick building on Overton's Yard and slowly expanded into buildings on the other side of the yard, dominating the area for decades.
Beer
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More

Art UK has taken it as its mission to digitally unite one million artworks from 3,500 institutions. This free-to-all portal connects everyone with the UK's public art collections.
London
fromColossal
3 days ago

Anarchic Cats Are Ensnared in Chaos in Leo Forest's Dynamic Drawings

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist. Sacred to ancient Egyptians, domestic cats share more than 95% of their genetic makeup with tigers, and they can leap five times their height.
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Photography
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Street Artists Take On Monumental Infrastructure in 'Impossible' Photos

Joseph Ford's Impossible Street Art series combines photography and street art to engage with monumental infrastructure and energy production sites.
fromArtnet News
5 days ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
Arts
#banksy-identity
Arts
fromJezebel
1 month ago

Banksy Revealed! Or Is That Exactly What Banksy Wants Us to Think...

Reuters investigation identifies Banksy as Robert Gunningham, a Bristol native who adopted the alias David Jones after disappearing from public records a decade ago.
Arts
fromJezebel
1 month ago

Banksy Revealed! Or Is That Exactly What Banksy Wants Us to Think...

Reuters investigation identifies Banksy as Robert Gunningham, a Bristol native who adopted the alias David Jones after disappearing from public records a decade ago.
fromianVisits
3 weeks ago

TfL to unveil new tube station artwork exploring relationships with water

The artwork, called We Move Through Scales of Blue, will comprise four photographic pieces installed alongside the escalators at both stations. As people go up and down, the images appear to shift and change.
London
#art
#photography
fromTime Out London
3 weeks ago

London's new Museum of Youth Culture has revealed its opening date - here's a sneak peek inside

The Museum of Youth Culture is set to open in Camden, featuring a collection of 100,000 items that document Britain's hidden teen history, from rockers' leather jackets to modern school leavers' hoodies.
London
Arts
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Painting With Blood: Who Does It and Who Collects It

Blood is used as a medium in contemporary art, challenging traditional boundaries of artistic practice.
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

An Intimate Portrait of Basquiat's Early Life Returns to Brooklyn | Artnet News

The exhibition features 20 works of art as well as photographs and other ephemera dating back to the late 1970s-just before Basquiat launched his studio practice.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

UK presenters Ant and Dec take legal action over 'secret and unauthorised 250,000 profit' made from Banksy prints

A UK High Court judge ruled on 4 March that there is an "arguable case" for the court order, which was filed by McPartlin and Donnelly in August 2025. It centres on a relationship between the duo and an unidentified art consultant, only referred to in the filing as 'X'. The anonymous party handled the pair's purchase of six Banksy prints for a combined £550,000 from the art dealer, Andrew Lilley.
Intellectual property law
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Two of Keith Haring's Painted Cars Roll Into New York for the First Time

Keith Haring's painted cars are showcased in New York, celebrating his influence on street art and the intersection of automobiles and art.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

No matter how bleak their views, benches embody civil kindness | Emma Beddington

A bench in Bristol installed facing a brick wall has aroused local curiosity why put it there? BBC West commented that it joined other perversely placed seating: a bench in Shirehampton facing a derelict building and one in Wedmore facing a hedge. Bristol city council explained that when it plants a planned tree, the bench will provide a shady spot to rest on a steep hill, but promised to review the placement.
UK news
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

The Art World Is a Joke

Kamrooz Aram is everywhere this year, from Mumbai Art Week to the Whitney Biennial, and critic Aruna D'Souza is grateful. She pens a beautiful meditation on his work, reading his abstract paintings as not simply a denunciation of Western modernism nor a reassertion of Islamic visual motifs, but something else entirely - something gestural, exuberant, riotous, and incomparably his own.
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#street-art
Arts
fromThe Globe and Mail
1 month ago

Elusive street artist Banksy's identity finally revealed

Banksy created murals in war-torn Ukraine, appearing in person near Kyiv in late 2022 to paint social commentary art amid bombed-out buildings.
Arts
fromThe Globe and Mail
1 month ago

Elusive street artist Banksy's identity finally revealed

Banksy created murals in war-torn Ukraine, appearing in person near Kyiv in late 2022 to paint social commentary art amid bombed-out buildings.
Film
fromianVisits
2 months ago

Southbank's skate undercroft turns 50 with a new exhibition celebrating its concrete legacy

Southbank's Undercroft celebrates 50 years of skateboarding with Skate 50, an exhibition opening April 30 featuring photography, film, sound, and skate community contributions.
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Whitney Biennial Trends, a New Baroque Art Star, and Banksy Unmasked | Artnet News

The 2026 Whitney Biennial opened at the beginning of the month, providing a snapshot of current trends and curatorial interests in the art world.
Arts
fromTime Out London
1 month ago

TfL has updated its Art Map for the first time a decade

Art on the Underground was launched in 2000, with site-specific works exploring themes of community, space and place. David Gentleman's 'Cross for Queen Eleanor', for example, is synonymous with Charing Cross, while Eric Aumonier's sculpture 'The Archer' looks imperiously over East Finchley station, linking the site to its historic surroundings as an ancient hunting area.
London music
London
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

London Underground's public art celebrated

Transport for London released an updated map featuring 26 permanent artworks across the Underground network, with new commissions added since 2016 to encourage exploration of public art during daily commutes.
Arts
fromFortune
4 weeks ago

Banksy may have been identified, but his mystery has long been part of his art's value, and a fan says it's like finding out Santa Claus isn't real | Fortune

Banksy's anonymity has been integral to his art's value, but his works may still retain significance despite his identity being revealed.
Photography
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

The Art of What We Throw Away

Frozen household food waste can be transformed into artwork that records daily life, promotes circularity, and fosters community engagement through zero-waste events.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Guardian view on anonymity in art: the unmasking' of Banksy and Ferrante should stop | Editorial

Banksy and Elena Ferrante exemplify the tension between anonymity and fame in contemporary art and literature.
London
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Mind the Art: Tube stations transformed into atmospheric paintings

Jock McFadyen's paintings of London Underground stations paired with ambient soundscapes create an immersive exhibition exploring urban infrastructure and industrial landscapes at the Guildhall Art Gallery.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L'il Tableaux

Artist Pejac uses graph paper's geometric grid to create trompe-l'œil illusions that challenge spatial perception and explore depth and movement beyond traditional two-dimensional representation.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Gavin Turk Invites Viewers to Imagine What Lies Beyond

British artist Gavin Turk's new body of work uses partially open doors as a motif to explore time, space, perspective, and the psychological charge of thresholds between states.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Liz West Transforms a Bristol Parking Garage into a Kaleidoscopic Passageway

British artist Liz West transformed a parking garage floor into an immersive color installation using pigmented theatre gels over existing lights, creating an interactive space for visitors to experience color physically.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Artist's Street Signs in Philadelphia Warn of Fascism Ahead

Guerrilla parody road signs in Philadelphia warn residents about ICE threats and authoritarianism using irreverent local humor and DIY tactics.
Arts
fromianVisits
2 months ago

Free outdoor exhibition turns parks, shopping centres and churches into open-air galleries

Thirty large National Gallery reproductions are installed across Croydon in public locations, free to view until 5th July 2026.
Arts
fromianVisits
2 months ago

The world's most meme-famous painting is heading to Tate Britain

A major James McNeill Whistler retrospective, featuring around 150 works including iconic self-portraits and landscapes, opens at Tate Britain on 21 May 2026.
Arts
fromTime Out London
2 months ago

One of London's most unmissable art exhibitions in 2026 will open this week

The Courtauld presents Seurat and the Sea, the first UK exhibition solely focused on Georges Seurat's seascapes, running February 13–April 12, 2026.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The Limits of Solidarity

Performative allyship and one-day strikes are insufficient; meaningful solidarity requires sustained accountability, education, and protection for vulnerable immigrant street vendors.
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