There are students in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who designed a mural to brighten a struggling neighborhood.
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May then asked him draw his stick man portrait and to do a mural in his garden.
"I'd spend 10 hours doing a mural on a wall thinking it was only 10 seconds, " he said.
Inside one bathroom was a mural painted by Zoe's mom before she died.
Obama joined young leaders to paint a mural at the future site of the Baylor Youth Center in Gaborone, Botswana.
For Rose Marie, a former inmate who now helps with a mural-painting programme inside the jail, that change came too late.
Campaigners have criticised plans to move or cover up a mural at an Oxfordshire train station to make way for a coffee shop.
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Last May, the enigmatic graffiti artist Banksy spray-painted a mural on the side of a bargain store in Wood Green, north London.
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Some fox kitsch remains--a mural behind the bar depicts Copley employees as foxes, reading newspapers and drinking martinis--but now the vibe is more decorous.
Louis the city grabbed 24 buildings owned by a housing ministry called Sanctuary in the Ordinary, cited the group for illegally displaying a mural ("End Eminent Domain Abuse"), then denied its application for a sign permit.
Schirrmann-Hamkens brought up the turkeys because their appearance in a mural allegedly painted circa 1300 was surprising: Turkeys are New World birds believed to have first been introduced to Europe by the Spaniards in the 1550s.
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In Jerusalem, he used 10, 000 workers to construct the Roman world's largest religious center, the renovated Second Temple, a campus whose great size is vividly conveyed through a mural that depicts its main plaza's depth and its colonnades' height, dwarfing the people under them.
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Benton was a popular mural painter until a change in political climate led his paintings to fall into disfavour.
The showroom also features a big mural of about 3, 000 white ping-pong balls on a Venetian-tile entry wall.
Which is, one has to admit, more moving than anything usually seen in a WPA mural.
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Outside, a sunny patio beneath a large mural is the perfect spot for dining al fresco in the warmer months.
Pieces include a 22m mural called Journey Across Time, featuring moving components that change as passengers pass by on the moving walkway, and another mural that spans 3.5km.
The ship is themed on New York City, with a colorful mural on the exterior hull design by pop artist Peter Max featuring the city skyline and the Statue of Liberty.
Members of the house band for NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in New York returned to their roots in Philadelphia on Friday for the dedication of a multistory mural in their honor.
At State College, the name of a popular football camp-out is now called "Nittanyville, " rather than "Paternoville, " and a famous local mural no longer shows a halo painted above the image of the school's former head coach.
The incident bore similarities with the daubing of a Mark Rothko mural in London's Tate Modern gallery last October, for which Polish national Wlodzimierz Umaniec, 26, was subsequently jailed.
"This is an area that was rocked by riots less than a year before this mural was painted, and for many in the community the painting has become a real symbol of local pride, " Wood Green Councillor Alan Strickland said.
The only face not smiling in the mural is a figure on the far left.
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Peter Dean Rickards bought the wall which featured the mural from a bar in Kingston and intentionally smashed it.
In the downstairs powder room artist Tracey Price painted a celestial scene on the ceiling and a French countryside wall mural.
Along the bustling strip, a four-storey mural of Indianapolis native and praised author Kurt Vonnegut oversees the street, which is full of food, drink and shopping opportunities.
For now, the missing mural has left a big hole in the side of a building and the heart of a community.
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The Banksy mural, depicting a boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting, disappeared from Whymark Avenue earlier this month.
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The 40ft mural, on a wall inside St Mark's Church in the city's Swanswell area, is said to depict the second coming of Christ.
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