Perhaps it was the abundance of concrete, or the year-round painting season, or the city full of Mexican workers that made Los Angeles the place where murals began to be a predominant art form.
The new Secretary of Public Education José Vasconcelos was an advocate of education through public art and he commissioned the creation of murals on several government buildings. Shortly after ...
catalog and celebrate the beauty of Chicago’s public art. Each point on the map is clickable, with a photo, description and sometimes a link to a story about the mural. You can zoom in to focus ...
By Will Heinrich The central role of printmaking in five centuries of Mexican art on view at the Met shows the weight of many minds. By Will Heinrich and Patricia Escárcega The artist Barbara ...
The 2022 BELIEVING Campus Murals event marked the beginning of a multiyear mural project to support the University’s Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan (AICP). Created by students, staff, faculty, ...
The image takes its inspiration from the art nouveau era and a nearby Victorian school. A beautiful mural, dubbed 'The Lady of Shrubland Street', has shone a light on the developing street art ...
Commissioned in partnership with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which will host Gibson’s extra-large exhibition “Power Full Because We’re Different,” in November, the mural ...
It all started with an aging grain solo. “It is 108 feet tall and 49 feet wide to be exact,” says Mindy Allen, owner of Mindy’s Murals in Junction City, Kan. That one structure in Inman ...
The goal was to bring an urban art influence to the city. Chipman said both of their schedules made it difficult to stay on task to raise the $10,000 needed for the first mural, but everything ...
Curtis Hylton, seen here with his piece from last year, is working on a new mural A colourful piece of street art is bursting into life in Ashford, Kent. Curtis Hylton is painting a giant peacock ...