Public art

This spring the federal economic stimulus package started doling out $787 billion. And $3.8 million (that’s 1/200,000th of it) went to Rochester, NY for the expansion of ARTWalk, the town’s funky urban sculpture trail. But not everybody thinks that a public art project will do much to stimulate the economy. Produced by Dave Johns.

There’s a public art exhibition opening next week in New York City that has me a bit concerned. It’s called Event Horizon, and it consists of 31 life-size human figures made of iron and fiberglass. The forms will stand on pathways and sidewalks in the Madison Square Park area of the city. That’s intriguing, and […]

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.

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.

China may heavily censor the press and the Internet, but graffiti is allowed to thrive on the concrete walls of Beijing. Lance Crayon, the director of a documentary on graffiti artists in Beijing, discusses the differences in street art culture between America and China.