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A new street art hotspot has some unconventional holiday decorations!
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On the cover of this special new issue of The New York Times Magazine is a massive JR street art
In New York City, artist JR may be most famous for his work in Times Square, pasting 6000 faces onto
We recently went on an extensive hard hat tour of the abandoned Ellis Island Southside Hospitals, looking for a lot
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Walking the hallways of an abandoned hospital would give anyone shivers. But what if throughout the tour, apparitions from times
In the late 1800s to early 1950s, Ellis Island was the “Island of Hope,” the final gateway before immigrants could
New York City is still a hotspot for guerrilla street art, even though we lost 5 Pointz and Banksy left.
World-renowned street artist JR, whose global art project Inside Out has been going on for three years at this point,
Though many of Dr. King’s most famous speeches and protests—including the “I Have a Dream” speech—took place
A lesser-known attack on Martin Luther King, Jr. occurred at a book signing in Harlem on September 20th, 1958, almost
The owners of the Bowery Mural Wall have commissioned contemporary artists to paint gorgeous murals at this location since a
Inside Out: The People’s Art Project, a documentary about French artist JR and his participatory art project, is set
When we stopped by the Elizabeth Street Garden this weekend, one of our favorite urban havens in New York City,
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