One man's trash (can) is another man's beautiful bouquet.

How New York city became a canvas for the graffiti artists of the 70s

There are an increasing number of murals to be found in the Bucharest public spaces. 

Argentinian-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone creates public murals that integrate black and white patterns with bright sweeping color spectrums. His tag "Pantone" is an evolution of his original name "Pant" chosen when he was just thirteen, a complete coincidence despite his color-rich works.

Playing with aspects of negative space and scale, Rotterdam-based artist Daan Botlek fills walls with his trademark anonymous figures, often interacting with their environment in strikingly inventive ways. The artist incorporates basic geometric elements, existing shadows and architectural elements.

Technology is helping us see what lies beneath the surface of works of art. Once upon a time an artist’s signature – down there, in the corner of the painting – was just about all the verification anyone needed to be sure an artwork was genuine. If you had the provenance as well – the documented history of the work’s sales and owners – no more proof was needed.

Created in 2006 by multidisciplinary artist Kimsooja, he transformed the Palacio de Cristal into a multisensory sound and light experience. Outside light filters through the glass of the pavilion and reflects off the diffraction film. It diffuses into rainbow spectrums, transforming the external panorama seen from within the palace. The resulting effect is that the entire structure as well as the rays of colour reflecting off the mirrored floor.

A new theory may explain the background to one of the most famous works of art ever produced. By Jonathan Amos.

Set to be demolished in June to make way for an apartment building,THE HAUS in Berlin is a formerly abandoned 5-story building filled with site-specific works by 165 street artists. THE HAUS was once a bank on avenue Kurfürstendamm, but fell into disuse over the years. The artists activated their network of creative contacts to temporarily turn it into a street art free-for-all that’s so popular with visitors, there’s often a two-hour wait outside.

Some would definitely be duped. Landon Meier, a designer and sculptor based in Colorado, makes hyper-realistic masks of famous people. He’s created masks of Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and more. They look disturbingly real, if a bit uncanny. Now the three masks mentioned above are on sale on eBay, with bids at thousands of dollars and counting. Looking at photos of people wearing one of the freakily realistic masks, it’s hard to tell it’s not a real face. That got me wondering: If it can fool my brain, could it fool a facial recognition algorithm?

When commercial giants want to capitalise on graffiti 'logos', it's time to protect street artists under copyright law.

Eric Gill was one of the great British artists of the 20th century – and a sexual abuser of his own daughters. A new exhibition at Ditchling asks: how far should an artist’s life affect our judgment of their work? By Rachel Cooke. (Apr. 9, 2017)

Casey Curran's kinetic sculptures may be made of metal, but they depict organisms that flutter with movement through a hand crank or a motor.

The current exhibition of Herrera’s work at the Whitney Museum endeavors to rectify the American art world’s long-term neglect: it focuses on Herrera’s work from 1948-1978, from her earliest abstracts through the various stages of her artistic evolution. For audiences, the revelation over the past decade of Herrera’s bold and vital work is a glorious gift. By Claire Messud. (Dec. 29, 2016)

This won’t be the first street art museum in the world, Europe, or even in Amsterdam — the Street Art Museum Amsterdam, which is really more of an outdoor tour of street art than a traditional museum, has been around since 2012. But Coolen says his museum will offer a completely different experience, largely because of its enormous warehouse space. He hopes to open the new museum in summer 2018.

Constructing sets that look functional but are intentionally useless, an artist parodies the seamless illusion of images. By Sarah Bay Gachot.

Once the source of the country’s most coveted china, Jingdezhen is attracting artists from around the world to study its hallowed porcelain traditions. By Edward Wong.

Duval is responsible for developing the world of Ally Sloper, 19th-century England’s most iconic comic character. By Lauren Young.