A number of Brooklyn-based street artists are pursuing legal action against McDonald’s for copyright infringement and false endorsement after the fast-food giant released an advertisement that features their works. The four-minute video, titled “McDonald’s Presents the Vibe of Bushwick NY,” was created to promote a new burger, the “New York Bagel Supreme,” in the Netherlands, and it features Bushwick Collective founder Joe Ficalora giving a tour of legally created street art around the neighborhood. Many of the artists who produced those works, however, never gave either Ficalora or McDonald’s permission to include them in the ad campaign

The resulting development of this space over the past few years has transformed a wasteland into an organic commune-esque type development with buildings made from found materials, street art, sculpture and allotments all fitting within the space which for years had been fenced off and overgrown.

Inventor Anirudh Sharma is capturing carbon from car exhausts to turn it into ink.

Vietnam is home to one of the largest African rhino horn consumer bases in the world. A unique graffiti campaign popped up on the walls of several streets in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, the hyperactive commercial capital of Vietnam. The works differed from the usual tags and designs that adorn urban areas around the world. The graffiti pieces, 17 in all, carry a simple message: “Save the rhinos,” or “Cứu tê giác” in Vietnamese.

A study done by Nicola Harding at the Manchester Metropolitan University suggests that social media has killed the traditional graffiti writer.

New York City’s street art scene is, in a certain light, very silly. Though there are many legitimate artists, it’s also full of pretentious blowhards with more opinions than brains. A lot of the art is bad, and a lot of the people are walking cliches.

Pearls and swines...

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.

It was a fun time at the first Crewalition Jam for this year. :-)

A fountain of jazz-playing animals, an angel with a gas mask and an entire family of peeing sculptures – Belgium has no shortage of strange statues.

The project was ambitious but this is even more so, the end result will be the front and back of the house being completely covered in intricate mosaic.

While Banksy makes millions from his artwork, London’s young graffiti artists are being demonised and imprisoned for expressing themselves in the exact same way as the famed street artist. Some consider graffiti a vital urban art form, while others remain convinced it is nothing more than criminal damage. These mixed views are complicated by the cultural popularity of graffiti; Banksy’s work sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars while news items with strategically positioned journalists in front of ‘cool’ spray-painted backdrops air on television. Even McDonalds has commandeered the use of fake graffiti tags in its attempt to be edgy.

The sky was grey. That's the only thing that could bother today. :-)

Whether you want to call it a new art form or a simply a hipster hobby, an artist France is pushing street-side string art in amusing new directions.

Artist Jan Vormann identifies damaged buildings and plugs the gaps with brightly colored Lego bricks.

Mutating works of public advertising with corrosive acid, this cunning urban interventionist hijacks posters from bus stops and subway stations, then adds his own message into the mix.

We all know what graffiti is. How it’s considered a crime for defacing public property but what about reverse graffiti? Reverse graffiti is art that is created by literally removing dirt from surfaces. Its graffiti by means of subtracting dirt and creating a temporary image that can be scrubbed and washed away with ease.

Street Art Project, a new initiative to document and preserve the often transient nature of street art. The project launched with over 5,000 high resolution images including work that no longer exists, like the 5Pointz murals in Long Island City or the walls of the Tour Paris 13. Google's Street View, made possible by their custom-designed panoramic camera, has become the eyes of streets large and small in almost every major city.