Topic: Murals
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Who Destroyed This Iconic African-American Mural in Philadelphia?
The mural celebrating printmaker Dox Thrash is now a big, ugly square of paint.
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Photos
Colossal Arachnids Menace the Space Needle
Artist Marlin Peterson improved the Seattle Center with frighteningly realistic (and large) daddy longlegs.
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Does This Boston Mural Contain a Hidden Terrorist Message?
Almost certainly not, but that isn't stopping Fox News commentators from seeing a "female Muslim suicide bomber."
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Photos
Reimagining an Entire Neighborhood Through Murals
Dutch muralists Haas and Hahn have teamed up to revitalize a blighted section of Philadelphia.
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Youth-Focused Neighborhood Improvement in Buenos Aires
A city agency is giving local kids paint and skateboards in the hopes of helping them make their neighborhoods better.
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Videos
A Mural About City-Building That Actually Doesn't Stink
This time-lapse video chronicles painted cranes as they "build" a city from the ground up, with real-life objects blending into two dimensions and vice versa.
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The Convoluted Path to Ending Los Angeles's Mural Ban
Lawsuits and questions about the true nature of murals have confounded L.A. for a decade.
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Democracy in America
Occupy L.A. Asks the City to Return Its Murals
The Los Angeles protesters are up in arms about the prospect of their artwork landing in a museum or art gallery.
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Photos
Is Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program Worthy of Hate?
The murals can't be that ugly. Or can they?
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Democracy in America
The Surfing Madonna Complex: A Political Awakening in Encinitas
How the battle over an illegal mosaic united a California beach town
