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“Street Level” Celebrates Four Years of Galerie F

Galerie F celebrates their fourth anniversary by bringing viewers closer to street art in the gallery space.

DISCO Art Exhibit: Old Vinyl Takes New Cultural Spin

A preview of this Friday's art opening at the Pilsen Outpost, featuring new artwork by Ricardo "Naco" Gonzalez and music by DJ Eddy Baca and 606 records.

Obey The Artist

A short documentary peeks inside Shepard Fairey's artistic process to reveal a framework of punk rock and politics.

Colleen Plumb’s Elephant on the Wall

The Chicago-based video artist is undertaking a three-month experiment in translating her video piece "Thirty Times A Minute" into guerrilla screenings in Chicago streets.

Art and Street Culture: The Making of the Murals

A documentation of the creation of two mural projects for Art and Street Culture in the SAIC Early College Program Summer Institute.

Shepard Fairey’s Fair

The $15 admission price to The Provocateurs, the group art show organized by the Art Alliance and curated by Shepard Fairey in conjunction with Lollapalooza, bought unlimited beers, sliders, and access to art that ran a gauntlet from gorgeous to gregarious.

Back to The Block

Chicago Graffiti's Climb to Legitimacy

JR: From “Arctivist” to “Superstartist”

Local Activism Becomes Global Collaboration


Tracing the French street artist's history of community-involved projects, and checking in on how the support from his TED Prize is turning the world "inside out."

Shaken Up and Scrawled Out

Paint Paste Sticker: Chicago Street Art


Street art maintains a basic purpose: to enhance whichever landscape it befalls. The current exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center explores how the genre keeps growing, in both complexity and popularity, and navigating the grounds of legality and space.

Street Art on White Walls

"Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art" at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Murals for the Masses

Canadian street art movement comes to SAIC.

Revolutionary Streets

Creativity Overflowing the Streets of Cairo All photos by the author.   For the past month, artists and activists have taken the streets of Cairo by storm....