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Literally popping out of city walls in three dimensions, wild animals emerge from a jumble of car parts, corrugated metal and random industrial objects masterfully layered and painted by Bordalo II…

We spoke to 3 female and 3 male street artists about the challenges of being a woman who tags.

Ten graffiti terms and phrases most commonly used in street art and graffiti culture. The meaning behind symbolic phrases and jargon from the graffiti world.

Google Street Art has doubled its online archive by adding some 5,000 images, bringing the tally to 10,000, with coordinates pinpointing exact locations on all five continents.

New York City graffiti legends who shaped the graffiti art movement we know today. There is no doubt that all ten of graffiti legends featured on the following list shaped the graffiti art movement as we know it today, and inspired generations of young street artists worldwide.

Here are the ten most fascinating documentaries and fictional street art movies that tell stories of the global movement and its impact on urban culture.

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One spring day in 2001 a tall man walked into Sheffield’s Park Hill flats and along a street in the sky. He strode past the brutalist flanks, out on to the footbridge. He thought: this’ll do. Jason didn’t look down; he gets vertigo and he was 13 storeys up. He leaned over in his yellow Puffa jacket and sprayed her name. “Clare” came out haphazardly and “Middleton” hit the ledge. He planned to take her to the Roxy on the facing hill, to show her. So now he began again, bigger, clearer: “I LOVE YOU WILL U MARRY ME”.

In Australia, graffiti is protected by copyright, even if it was painted illegally. Enforcing that copyright can get tricky though, since the artist could still be arrested for vandalism. Why wouldn’t similar protections apply in the United States?

It should not be presumed that the beginnings of what we consider street art today necessarily define the notion. To say It began with graffiti is no mistake.

The “edgy authenticity” of street art makes it an ideal tool for urban planners seeking to attract the new "creative class".

A Melbourne street artist who was threatened with a council fine over a provocative mural he painted of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has responded by covering her image with a niqab. Maribyrnong council took issue with the original mural, which depicted Clinton wearing a revealing swimsuit with $100 notes tucked into it. The council said residents complained about the piece, which was painted on to the side wall of a scooter shop in Footscray, 5km west of Melbourne.

It's good to be ouside. :-)

What is a mural? Read about the historic importance of murals, as well as their role as the socio-political tools of freedom of expression.

Street art and real estate, at first considered as a sign of decay that lowers the property values, as soon as people started considering ‘gritty’ and ‘edgy’ cool, street art began generating interest to a piece of real estate.