Murals and Street Art

Gabe Friedman. The Atlantic. Sept. 21, 2014.

Seres Lu. Columbia Journalism School.

Michael Griffiths. The New York Times (Section: What in the World). Sept. 2, 2016.

Dan Parolek. Opticos Designs. Nov. 19, 2014.

Irene De Vette. American Express Essentials.
Article featuring many blogs and Instagram accounts documenting street art all over the world.

Maghan McDowell. Business of Fashion. Aug. 11, 2017.
The art wall’s allure as a social media-worthy photo op has been embraced by retailers as a marketing opportunity. Does it convert into sales?

Margherita Cole. My Modern Met. Dec. 6, 2021.
"From striking paintings on abandoned ships to murals celebrating Black culture and history, street artists have found unique and impressive ways to beautify their surroundings over the past year. We've searched our favorites to present the 10 best murals of 2021."

Alan Feuer. New York Times. Feb. 12, 2018.
Ruling that graffiti — a typically transient form of art — was of sufficient stature to be protected by the law, a federal judge in Brooklyn awarded a judgment of $6.7 million on Monday to 21 graffiti artists whose works were destroyed in 2013 at the 5Pointz complex in Long Island City, Queens.

Priscilla Frank. Huffington Post. Feb 17, 2016.
. . . This work of street art was made by Shamsia Hassani, widely known as the first prominent woman street artist in Afghanistan. Hassani was born in 1988 in Tehran to Afghan parents, eventually moving to Kabul to pursue her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in visual art. She currently resides in Kabul, where she turns the city’s walls into colorful canvases that spread a message of peace and hope to her community . . .

SA Rodgers. Weburbanist.com.

Deborah Vankinstaff. Los Angeles Times. June 14, 2014.
Graffiti art, by nature, is a territorial expression. Rival crews tag public walls, letting loose a spray-paint-infused primal scream: “I was here, I exist.”

But graffiti also can be a collaborative form of calligraphy that plays with lettering, symbols and signs, as is the case with the Los Angeles street artists who have united for “Scratch,” an exhibit at the nonprofit, experimental art hub ESMoA, formerly called the El Segundo Museum of Art.