Mural
Japan’s Banksy
At first no one noticed them, the visual footnotes created by Japan’s version of Banksy. The artists – for they are six, not one – go by the name Chimâ??Pom. This had been one of the recent works by the shock-art collective. They discretely painted burned-out nuclear power plants over an existing mural at Tokyo’s […]
Bollywood Movie Mural Artistry
For years, Bollywood’s sappy, over-the-top, romantic musicals drew audiences with colorful hand-painted murals on the old movie theaters. But digital printing presses have put many of the painters who created these murals out of work. In Delhi, one craftsman found new patrons for his movie-mural artistry: American ex-pats in love.