By Dominic Evans and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - On a cold winter's night in early 2011, some Syrian schoolboys drew a few slogans on a wall in a town the world had barely heard of. Two years on, more than 70,000 people have die... [Full Article]
When Arker Kyaw heard President Barack Obama was coming to Myanmar, he gathered 15 cans of spray paint and headed for a blank brick wall under cover of darkness. Kyaw, whose passion is graffiti, labored from 3 a.m. until the sun came up. Passing taxi... [Full Article]
A group of artists, photographers and a publisher have joined hands to preserve Egypt's graffiti. "Wall Talk" - their newly released 680-page book - collected hundreds of photos of the wall art since the beginning of the revolt against... [Full Article]
Graffiti has been among the most powerful art forms and tools of Egypt's revolution and the turbulent months since, but it also has proven to be its most vulnerable and ephemeral. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Under cover of darkness, a few municipality workers quietly began to paint over an icon of Egypt's revolution: a giant, elaborate public mural on the street that saw some of the most violent clashes between protesters and police over the past tw... [Full Article]
An auction house says an important early work by graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is going up for sale in New York. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Hebrew graffiti thanking Hitler for the Holocaust and denouncing Zionism was sprayed at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Monday, with suspicion falling on ultra-Orthodox opponents of the state of Israel. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
After Egypt's ruling military sealed off streets around Cairo's Tahrir Square with walls of imposing concrete blocks, a group of artists decided to reopen the avenues on their own - in the public imagination, at least. (Source: Associated P... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A woman walks past a graffiti depecting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas March 1, 2012. An ebullient-sounding Hugo Chavez said on Thursday he was eating, walking at dawn and recovering fast from an operation on a suspected recu... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - An artist paints graffiti on a wall at an industrial park in Kabul December 19, 2010. A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolise cleanliness, while further down the factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passen... [Full Article]
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