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Bogotá, Colombia

Diego Felipe Becerra's Bridge

At the site of a graffiti artist's murder, fellow artists gather to pay homage.
The “Ocean Siren” changes color in real time—from dark blue to dark red—as the water temperature fluctuates.
museums

This Sculpture Is a Mood Ring for the Great Barrier Reef

An artist talks about his environmentally responsive artwork—the first installation in an underwater museum at the intersection of coral and culture.
Katie Dundas May 28, 2020
Whole Wall Mural
Concordia, Kansas

Whole Wall Mural

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.
Liège, Belgium

Tour Cybernétique (Cybernetic Tower)

Nicolas Schöffer's massive interactive sculpture was assembled in 1961 and brought back online in 2016.
These four 98-foot-tall silos in Thallon, Queensland, took Brisbane artists Joel Fergie (aka The Zookeeper) and Travis Vinson (aka Drap) three weeks to paint.
paintings

Painted Silos Are Turning the Outback Into an Alfresco Art Gallery

Can these unlikely bursts of beauty refresh Australia’s parched rural towns too?
Natasha Bazika May 19, 2020
Lorenzo Reina with his singular creation in the Sicilian hills.
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From Tending Sheep in the Sicilian Mountains to the Venice Biennale

How Lorenzo Reina’s open air theater made southwest Sicily a cultural hotspot.  
Vittoria Traverso May 18, 2020
Walking into the apartment can be a disorienting experience.
paintings

How One Outsider Artist Reclaimed Her Drab Indoor World

Suddenly confined in a small space, Afia Zecharia painted every wall.
Gitit Ginat May 14, 2020
Glen LeMesurier's sculptures in the Twilight Sculpture Garden.
Montreal, Québec

Twilight Sculpture Garden

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.
The mosaic panel "Blacksmiths of the Present," on a wall at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in Kyiv, was created in 1974 by artists Galina Zubchenko and Grygoryi Pryshedko.
mosaics

Preserving Ukraine’s Soviet Past, One Mosaic At a Time

“We’re trying to collect everything before it’s gone.”
JoAnna Haugen May 5, 2020
Horace Burgess's treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee, in 2015.
outsider art

The Life and Fiery Death of the World's Biggest Treehouse

Its dedicated, sagelike maker isn't at all upset.
Matthew Taub May 4, 2020
The facade of Stenton House in Philadelphia.
statues

Philadelphia Will Finally Memorialize an Enslaved Woman Freed in 1776

Dinah is a local legend for saving Stenton House—but she should be remembered for much more.
Karen Chernick April 30, 2020
Santa Barbara, California

Vera Cruz

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.
Artist Kai 'Uzey' Wohlgemuth depicted a nurse as Superwoman in Hamm, Germany, April 8, 2020.
graffiti

Around the World in Pandemic Street Art

Messages of respect, hope, and frustration have appeared in our largely empty public spaces.
Winnie Lee April 16, 2020
Toronto, Ontario

Graffiti Alley

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.
Indianapolis, Indiana

Chatham Passage

This multisensory alley has the ability to remind bustling citygoers to stop and smell the roses.
A bird in the hand: Part of the "Bayshore Drive Lighthouse" sculpture takes wing.
art

The Charmed Second Life of Australia's Cursed 'Disco Dong'

The sculpture was loathed as a public-art installation. Now its 4,000 aluminum birds are treasured in private collections.
Vivienne Pearson March 25, 2020
A statue of Francisco de Paula Santander, a gift from Colombia to Chile in Valparaíso.
statues

How Chilean Protesters Painted a New Story Atop Old National Monuments

Photographer Camilo Vergara has documented color, graffiti, and anger.
Winnie Lee March 19, 2020
Edinburgh, Scotland

The Meadows Mural

An artistic interpretation of the history of a Scottish park, combining poetry with anthropomorphic animals.