“There’s no city without graffiti,” stated Blek Le Rat, the French artist who is arguably the godfather of stencil art. Heavily influenced by the New York City graffiti artists of the 1970s, Blek took ...

Banksy began as a rumour scrawled across brickwork: political stencils that appeared overnight, mocked authority, and vanished just as quickly. Local councils scrubbed them away while passers-by ...

Street art was never designed to age gracefully. It lived in the open, on flyover pillars, abandoned factories, subway tunnels, exposed to rain, dust, municipal paint rollers, and the constant churn ...