These young street artists are, in effect, claiming ownership of their city and their nation.
Ditching the museum-gallery complex has boundless advantages, most conspicuously exploited by street artists such as Banksy.
Much of the interiors are temporal, such as with ever-changing walls tagged by street artists shoboshobo and Zevs.
In the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, Nikita Nomerz is famous among street artists for literally giving a new face to derelict buildings.
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The owner of this particular wall, which is also a favored spot for other L.A. street artists, whitewashes the graffiti away every so often...
Visitors to Cockatoo Island before 11 December can stop by the Outpost Project, a street arts festival featuring more than 150 street artists from around the world.
The same information that large retail chains pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for will be available to your landscaper, mom and pop shops and even street artists.
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Much of the tale concerns a Frenchman named Thierry Guetta, who began by filming such street artists as Space Invader and Shepard Fairey and then, in a moment of wild optimism, decided to join their ranks.
He said extra costs and red tape had also been imposed on school plays and discos where ticket sales went to Parent Teacher Association funds, Punch and Judy shows, street artists, park brass bands and restaurant pianists.
When the city was divided between East and West Germany, early street artists like French artist Thierry Noir used the western side of the wall as a place to share political messages and commentary on Berlin and the world at large.
Street art, meanwhile, has been controversial around the world, though in some cities it is cautiously permitted with some street artists rising to prominence in recent years, notably the British artist known as "Banksy, " whose stencils and drawings, sometimes considered illegal, have flourished from London to Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, over the past decade or so, a concentration of cutting-edge galleries - featuring everything from SoCal's native lowbrow street and graffiti artists to Japanese pop-art imports - has reclaimed an industrial area on Culver's eastern edge, creating an arts district to rival New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.
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The residences that line her street, where fellow artists Gilbert and George also live, were built in 1729 for the Huguenot silk weavers who had settled in London and as such are Grade II listed and protected.
The outdoor space is also an unofficial graffiti exhibition with two works by British street artist Banksy and local artists working on walls around the market.
If artistic activity online and in the street are any indication, radical contemporary artists perceive the failings of previous generations.
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On a nearby wall hangs "Totem Figure, " a facial relief carved in wood and painted by Cecil Skotnes, who in the 1950s and 1960s presided over a Johannesburg artists' salon called Polly Street that became a training ground for many of South Africa's most influential painters and sculptors.
This is the UK's largest permanent street art project and the biggest urban arts festival in Europe, attracting the world's leading urban artists to converge and create a series of temporary and permanent street art installations and sculpture, including some of the world's largest scale outdoor paintings.
This incident brings to mind a lesser-known fact about the Hamptons: it's a place where conservative Wall Street tycoons have long co-existed with artists, many of whom love the delicate, ever-changing light that results from the region being almost entirely surrounded by sea.
An exhibit at Bleecker Street Arts Club includes a series of photographs by Lina Bertucci of artists including Jeff Koons and Elizabeth Peyton.
However, unlike previous so-called alternative hip-hop artists like Arrested Development or Will Smith, West never lost street cred with hip-hop's A list.
And artists here like to leave their mark: the Mission has the highest concentration of street murals in the city, according to the San Francisco Travel Association.
He had lately, however, retired, and had gone to London, where he has since resided, in Suffolk street, Pall-mall East, and gained some notoriety by the manufacture of an improved oil for artists.
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