Graffiti

a bald man crouches down next to a graffiti-covered stone. he wears a vest that says "erase the hate"

A Montreal man is #ErasingHate with a power washer and his Instagram account

Corey Fleischer removes graffiti whenever he sees it — and then posts to his Instagram account, which has amassed more than 55,000 followers.

The World

Banksy takes on BP

Arts, Culture & Media

Google’s Street (Art) View

Arts, Culture & Media

The City with a Mural on (Nearly) Every Wall

Arts, Culture & Media

Street Art Gets Truckin’

Arts, Culture & Media
School

How one school is helping students cope with post-election fears

Education

After their school was tagged with anti-immigrant graffiti, teachers at an elementary school in California asked students to put pen to paper.

Graffiti in Arabic from the set of Homeland. It reads: Homeland is NOT a series.

Here’s why artists wrote ‘Homeland is watermelon’ on the set of the TV series

Culture

Three artists were asked to come up with graffiti to cover the walls of a set in the TV series “Homeland.” The producers wanted to make it look as authentic as possible. The artists, on the other hand, had other ideas.

Graffiti lead photo

This Nicaraguan woman answers sexism with spraypaint

Arts

Twenty-three-year-old Jairisa Sanchez is bucking the odds for women in Nicaragua, which has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and violence against women in the Americas. When she’s not working as a graphic designer, Sanchez is a rare graffitera, a female graffiti artist.

The door of a destroyed house, painted by British street artist Banksy, is seen here inside the gallery of a local Palestinian artist.

There was nothing left of this bombed house except a door painted on by Banksy. Now police have it.

Arts

All that was left of Palestinian Rabie Darduna’s house was his front door. Then graffiti artist Banksy painted on Darduna’s door. Now police in Gaza have confiscated the door after Darduna says he was tricked into selling it for $175.

Google’s helping street artists preserve their work forever — long after their canvases come down

Street artists create their art on canvases that don’t belong to them. But Google’s giving them a chance to save their work — before it’s gone.Street artists create their art on canvases that don’t belong to them. But Google’s giving them a chance to save their work — before it’s gone.