From Patna to Bengaluru, murals have become a record of the cornonavirus pandemic

Graffiti has sprung up across the country to pay homage to coronavirus frontline workers and for making public service announcements.

Manavi Kapur, qz.com

· Mar 27, 2021 · 01:30 pm

Once symbols of despair, Kabul’s blast walls are spreading messages of hope and defiance

ArtLords, a group of Afghan artists, are painting murals on the barriers to highlight the social problems faced by residents of the war-torn city.

Hugo Ribadeau Dumas

· Jan 12, 2019 · 11:30 am

What a ruling ordering a developer to pay artists for destroying their graffiti means for street art

Twenty-one New York artists won $6.7 million in damages from the owner of a building who destroyed their graffiti when he had the structure demolished.

Enrico Bonadio, The Conversation

· Feb 19, 2018 · 11:30 pm

A Kolkata resident has covered his neighbourhood with murals of Bengali cultural icons

The colourful art painted on electricity boxes is a welcome change from campaign posters.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Nov 30, 2017 · 03:30 pm

In its 10 years, Google Street View has become fertile ground for artists

Creative people have used the platform for photographic curation to music videos, to comment on issues like surveillance and poverty.

Chris Ingraham, The Conversation

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Allison L Rowland, The Conversation

· May 28, 2017 · 10:30 pm

Homeless street artists have turned a lane in Melbourne into the city’s most Instagrammed spot

Some say homelessness creates squalor in cities. But Hosier Lane thrives due to homeless street artists.

Chris Honig, The Conversation

· Feb 04, 2017 · 11:30 pm

Screen gods and pehelwans: This photographer is documenting a dying Indian street art

Meena Kadri's work captures the fading paint work now replaced by digital signs and snazzy billboards.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Sep 16, 2016 · 05:30 pm

Painting with children: A German street artist has left his mark from Delhi to Kochi

An interview with the anonymous artist TONA.

Rohini Kejriwal

· Aug 31, 2016 · 11:30 am

Why the real Banksy need not stand up

The Jack the Ripper of the art world needs his anonymity.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Mar 09, 2016 · 04:30 pm

‘It’s pretty, but what is it?’: Delhi gawps at its giant new murals

A street art festival that brought artists from around the world to the national capital last month has got locals talking (but a little puzzled).

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Mar 02, 2016 · 01:30 pm

Pictures: Street art is quietly taking over drab walls covered with ugly advertising in Delhi

Dull no more. Some Delhi neighbourhoods are turning into public exhibitions, with colourful surprises.

Mayank Jain

· Mar 05, 2015 · 12:30 pm

Lennon in a lungi, Marx meditating like a saint: Graffiti in Kochi asks ‘Guess Who’

The works of an anonymous artist, or group of artists, have left viewers amused and flummoxed.

Mayank Jain

· Jan 07, 2015 · 05:45 am