In the storied histories of New York’s art scenes, the early years of graffiti have a magical sheen. They’ve been romanticized and cinematized so much that it’s hard to imagine what they were actually ...

Historical graffiti can be found all over Venice, incised or scratched on columns, entrances and walls. They can be symbols, dedications, quotations, warnings ...

Lee Quiñones is an elder statesman of street art. His graffiti subway creations — called “top-to-bottoms” for the way they covered the car’s entire exterior — established his legendary status as they ...

Remains of a pylon and the Temple of Dendûr in Dandūr, Egypt (photo by Maison Bonfils, late 19th century, courtesy and via the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division) Saqqara is an ...

From the vivid murals of the Castleberry Hill neighborhood to the aerosol-laden walls of the Krog Street Tunnel, Atlanta is a city of street art. “Whenever I travel in the U.S. and talk to graffiti ...

Art comes in all shapes and sizes. Be it an impressionist painting, an ancient sculpture, an intricate mosaic, or a toilet. Straight lines or swirly lines, monochrome or an explosion of neon, ...

When the art installation Dismaland Bemusement Park opened in August of 2015, it did so with all the fanfare normally associated with a work of high art — a Cy Twombly installation perhaps, or one of ...

Machine learning is quickly becoming a new tool for digital artists, with systems like OpenAI’s DALL-E granting the ability to generate surreal images from just a brief text description. Researchers ...