Banksy

'Wheaties' artists get creative outside the box

2013-05-12 08:00:00

Some 120 years after Toulouse-Lautrec's Moulin Rouge posters surfaced on the lamp posts and kiosks of Paris, street artists reinvigorated by the antique charms of gluepot and paper are dipping into buckets of mix-it-yourself wheat paste to plaster...

Art review: 'Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain' shows life

2013-02-20 18:00:00

If you like paint, you'll like "Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain," the artist's 40-year retrospective exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach. It's awash in the stuff. Thick, brightly colored paint oozes like mortar from...

Banksy mural goes missing in London, for sale in Miami

2013-02-19 08:00:00

North Londoners are furious over a missing Banksy mural that was torn off a building in the Wood Green neighborhood of the city and has since resurfaced online at Fine Art Auctions Miami.� The high-profile mural features a young boy on his knees,...

Lance Armstrong-inspired graffiti art pops up around Los Angeles

2013-01-23 11:53:00

Street graffiti art inspired by Lance Armstrong is drawing notice as it pops up around Los Angeles. Over the last week, a stenciled, spray-painted image of a cyclist wearing a yellow jersey and riding a bike while hooked up to an IV has turned up in...

Sundance 2013: How did a newbie make an unapproved film in Disney parks?

2013-01-19 00:07:00

PARK CITY, Utah -- About three years ago, Randy Moore, a struggling screenwriter living in Burbank, had an out-there idea: What if he took a tiny camera and, without asking permission, began shooting a narrative movie at Disney theme parks? Moore had...

P.D. Smith sets off on an urban exploration

2012-12-09 00:00:00

It's clear to anyone who tries to get from Santa Monica to downtown at rush hour that our cities are crowded with people. Take the 10 Freeway, or try Sunset, cut down to Beverly, then Olympic, then Pico — every route is jam-packed. This is a...

Kristoff Ball's hands-on design

2012-09-30 00:00:00

Kristoff Ball is known for his rock star hairstyles but he can also fix a car, drywall a house and grow a delicious tomato. Long before he gained fame styling celebrities — including Pink, Ashley Tisdale, Brad Pitt and Gwen Stefani — he...

Bonhams to hold street-art auction in Los Angeles

2012-10-11 08:00:00

It has become an art-world axiom that street art is big business. But how much is a piece of wall graffiti by a big-name talent worth exactly? Bonhams has announced that it will hold an auction in Los Angeles featuring more than 80 works by some of the...

Adam Yauch dies at 47; Beastie Boys' rapper MCA

2012-05-05 00:00:00

It had only been a few years since Adam Yauch had found fame as the in-your-face rapper and bass player MCA in the transgressive, boundary-breaking trio the Beastie Boys. But in 1992 he was searching for something else, traveling in Nepal to snowboard...

Monster Mash: Drilling for Leonardo Da Vinci; 'Once' to Broadway

2011-12-07 16:33:01

Mr. Brainwash is back with another mega-show in L.A.

2011-12-22 16:33:08

L.A. street artist David Choe to reap millions from Facebook IPO?

2012-02-06 16:33:14

A detail of a work by the British street artist Banksy that will be up for sale at a Bonhams auction devoted to urban and graffiti art on Oct. 29.

2012-10-10 23:49:00

Pretty stoked on Banksy's new Olympic street art kkaterynn

2012-07-25 16:15:43

, this show at the Museum of Contemporary Art does a laudable job celebrating the rich culture of graffiti art.

2011-06-30 17:24:37