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It’s Born to be Wild, But Street Art Doesn’t Always Stay That Way

The unprecedented increase in value of work by street artists has led to a commodification of a product that was once simply a source of public...

J. Scott Orr

A look back at her nearly five-decade career reveals flirtations with a raft of subjects ranging from carnivals to casinos, car races to quotidian...

As the city phases out the once-ubiquitous cards, artists like Juan Carlos Pinto, Thomas McKean and Nina Boesch are preserving their legacy.

The stark black-and-white compositions do what Mapplethorpe did best: transform the socially unacceptable into formalist art through meticulous...