Celebubrated street artist Banksy is currently prowling around New York City, leaving a trail of new art on random walls. Oblivious New York City building owners are painting them over just as fast as they can.

Yesterday, a new piece by street-artist-to-the-stars Banksy appeared in New York City. Within a day, the Banksy piece was redone by competitors.

Look, it's a new Banksy piece in LA. Is everyone too cool for Banksy now? No. [Banksy]

Israel Hernandez had only managed to scribble a tiny letter "R" — the initial of his nickname, "Reefa" — on the wall of an abandoned graffiti-and-poster-littered McDonald's last Tuesday morning, when he was spotted by the cops and took off.

Earlier this month, British stencil artist DS painted one of his signature characters, an old Hello Kitty spoof he'd long ago dubbed Bad Kitty, on an Islington wall along Essex Road. The next morning, the 28-year-old saw someone buffing the figures and photographed the removal process from across the street. Then DS…

U.S. Park Police today closed the Lincoln Memorial until further notice after vandals splattered green paint all over the statue and the floor.

In the last six weeks, the Citi Bike has become an omnipresent New York City character, appearing on a New Yorker cover, landing a supporting role with Leonardo DiCaprio's e-cigarette, and causing a Wall Street Journal board member nearly to burst into angry, elitist flames over the pernicious "all-powerful bike…

Marc Schiller is the co-founder of Wooster Collective, a formative street-art web site launched with his wife Sara in 2003, and the CEO and founder of slick digital brand-strategy firm Bond Strategy and Influence. He is widely surmised to be a close friend of global art-phenomenon Banksy. And today, Schiller enjoyed a…

Cops have always quietly hassled kids for photographing freshly adorned graffiti and street art, the unfair presumption being that they might be the vandal returning to preserve their work. But even in that context, what happened yesterday in Canada is bonkers: a 20-year-old Montreal woman was arrested for posting a…

Purveyor of celebrity-themed puns and hybrid creatures, street artist Hanksy has adorned Los Angeles with yet another creative cast of characters. As a sort of antithesis to the serious sanctimoniousness of some street art, Hanksy prefers to make jokes that involve Will Ferrell Cats or Nicolas Cage Against the…

Essam Attia is the New York street artist responsible for placing fake NYPD ads reading "Drones: Protection When You Least Expect It" around town. In September, he gave a video interview to Animal NY, with his identity and voice obscured, in which he discussed this project and his art in general. Wednesday morning,…

A photographer who just happened to be hanging out by the Manhattan Criminal Court last month managed to snap a potentially award-winning pic of two young lovers engaged in a tender exchange while being brought to the courthouse in handcuffs.

Japanese-born New York-based artist Takeshi Miyakawa was arrested early Saturday morning, in Williamsburg of all places, after an installation he hung from a tree in the Brooklyn neighborhood was mistaken for a bomb.

A brand new (as-yet-unconfirmed) Banksy piece has been spotted on the outer wall of a Poundland near the Turnpike Lane Tube station in London.

California-based street artist ABOVE took some time during a recent trip to Johannesburg, South Africa, to let the world know how he felt about blood diamonds. Namely: That he doesn't like them.

Paid Content's Jeff Roberts discovered what may be the world's geekiest stretch of graffiti on the Pulaski bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. There was this Google stencil, a "Stop SOPA" tag, and a painted Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask.