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A Boston artist paints the backdrop to national conversation on racism
As protests and rallies against racism continue throughout the country, one Boston artist says he’ll paint the backdrop to the momentous national conversation. Robert “ProBlak” Gibbs has been creating street art for years, teaming with Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts…
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In Miami, how art intersects with technology and climate change
In Miami’s famed mural district, Wynwood, a combination of art and technology is raising awareness about the threats of climate change. South Floridians are no strangers to stronger storms, so-called sunny day flooding and rising seas. These augmented reality murals…
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Artist puts time in perspective by painting sun’s rise and fall
The sun will rise in the morning, no matter what happens. That idea was the inspiration for Swiss artist Nicolas Party, who painted a new mural directly onto the walls of the Hirshhorn Museum for his exhibit "Sunrise, Sunset."…
In a changing corner of Brooklyn, public art teaches kids ABCs
Local artists in a Brooklyn neighborhood are contributing to a public art project aimed at helping kids learn the alphabet.
When 27-year-old artist Antonio Ramos was shot and killed last fall while painting a mural under a highway overpass in West Oakland, the story of his death captured national headlines and inspired other young people to honor his legacy through…
He wanted to create something uniquely modern and Alaskan, putting his own contemporary spin on traditional styles.
More than 2.6 million Syrian children are not in school, many of them having left in the midst of a war now in its fifth year.
For more than 30 years, Los Angeles-based artist RISK has been creating colorful murals on everything from highway overpasses -- known as “heavens” -- to dilapidated buildings, walls, trains and buses. He recently joined eight other graffiti artists to paint…
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