If you've cruised or strolled past the intersection of Melrose and Spaulding avenues during the past week, you may have been greeted by dozens of spray-painted faces. The Picasso-esque visages are the works of American artist Gregory Siff. Two years ago, Siff painted the same wall without permission. This year, he got permission and covered the wall again on February 1. more ›

Members of Occupy Los Angeles don't want to see the City of L.A. give away the murals that once stood at the City Hall encampment, and have asked The Department of Cultural Affairs to return to murals to them. more ›

Street artist Buff Monster -- whose website tagline is "art of super happy pink" -- recently took over the 6th Street wall of the Standard Downtown, reports the Huffington Post. The mural he painted on the hotel's south side features plenty of his trademark color, as well as creatures that look like desserts wandering about in a desert. more ›

Dennis Hopper was a Venice fixture, and to commemorate the late, great actor, local artists Madsteez and MAR recently completed a mural in the beach community that features a large-scale portrait of him. more ›

L.A.-based street artist Kophns One, also known as Koffinz, painted a 30-foot wall in his native Echo Park during the last week of December. Watch him create "Kophenjoy" in today's video lunch via a video uploaded yesterday by The Site Unscene showcasing his visual mastery. more ›

What of the giant mural that once stood in the center of the Occupy LA camp, painted in bold colors (and making a bold statement) on the plywood set up to protect the fountain? Well, the City is ready to give it back to...well, they aren't sure. But they don't want it anymore. more ›

It's time for year in review posts, and while there are certainly more than a few everywhere on the web, today we were drawn to KCET's look back at 2011 in Los Angeles mural art. more ›

A new proposed ordinance could be the saving grace for Los Angeles murals and the artists who create them, ending the controversial "mural moratorium." Councilman José Huizar, along with muralists and art conservationists, was expected to unveil the latest draft this morning in the Boyle Heights Arts District. more ›

Much has made of the reported 30 tons of debris hazmat teams were called in to remove after the city moved in to shut down Occupy L.A.'s two-month encampment on the lawn of City Hall. But there's one relic that the mayor's office would like to save: the mural at the heart of the camp. more ›

Bicycling Angelenos, pedal to Lincoln Park this Saturday, November 12, for a curated two-wheeled tour of L.A. street murals. Trained ride leaders from Cyclists Inciting Change thru LIVE Exchange (C.I.C.L.E.) will lead a 7.5-mile ride through Lincoln Heights, Boyle Heights and the Downtown Arts district. more ›

Art is everywhere. It's in our homes, in our minds, on our sidewalks, adorning the walls of public spaces, filling the bellies of hungry museums and standing on our beaches. It's even on a barricade at Los Angeles City Hall. more ›

Some people turn to an elder or a higher power for guidance in a time of struggle. Los Angeles turns to Portland, Oregon. While before we've turned to Stumptown for direction for our street car transit and bike-friendliness on our streets, this time the City of L.A. has formed a "Mural Task Force" and is turning to Portland for advice based on the success of their mural ordinance. more ›

One way to get your group's message out: Paste up some posters! But better check first you're not getting slap-em-up happy atop a mural made by a group of well-known global artists. Falling Whistles, a group seeking to raise awareness about conditions in the African Congo, wound up plastering their campaign posters atop the mural called "Only Time Will Tell." more ›

It's a bird! (No.) It's a plane! (Well, yes.) It's sky graffiti! (WTF?) California-based graffiti artist SABER sent skywriting planes over Downtown L.A. today to leave his mark, and the mark of other prominent graffiti artists, in the form of sky tagging. more ›

Worldly street artist and designer Chase and his trusty cans of spray paint have brightened Venice Beach this spring and summer with several mural projects. As part of The Campaign for the Absurd in Venice Beach, he covered several walls with his brilliant characters. more ›

A magnificent yet tedious street art project just wrapped this afternoon in Venice, and passers-by are approvingly snapping photos of the brilliant display. Barefoot Wine, the Surfrider Foundation and four local artists combined forces to create a 14x10-foot "One Beach" film poster mural on the side of Mollusk Surf Shop. more ›

In Venice, a historic post office on Windward Circle is preparing to close down and consolidate operations nearby at the Grand Avenue annex. If a post office moves, who forwards their mail? Inside the building, a mural of Venice founder Abbot Kinney was discovered after being "covered and forgotten for many years," notes ABC Local. more ›

Valley Village's Barbara Black wanted to support young artists, so she commissioned a mural painted by 10 North Hollywood High School students for the 75-foot fence on her property. Yesterday afternoon, Black, with the help of other artists and friends, whitewashed the artwork in order to comply with the City of Los Angeles' ruling that the mural was illegal advertising. more ›

A community may not be able to change its history, but as residents of Highland Park are about to discover, it is possible to clean it up. On Saturday, volunteers will work to restore one of the neighborhood’s most cherished murals, “History of Highland Park,” located on the AT&T building on Avenue 56. more ›

Across from Weller Court on Astronaut E S Onizuka street, is new, colorful store in Little Tokyo called Q Pop. Owner Chris Mitchell fills his pop wonderland with items from Japan, Thailand and Los Angeles that celebrate the cute, the groovy, and the kawaii. more ›

Good news and bad news surround billboard issues in Los Angeles this week. The bad news is that even after significant efforts from the Los Angeles City Council to crack down on illegal supergraphics, advertisements continue to be found on private property causing frustration and dismay to many community members. more ›

As the grand opening of Santa Monica Place nears, the city today officially unveiled two new pieces of public art. Both attached to parking garages, each offer different experiences. more ›

Following in the steps of European street artists JR and Vhils, both who created murals in downtown this month, Cork-based Conor Harrington took to Venice this past weekend. The artist known for mixing graffiti art with with traditional oil painting painted a mural on the "High n High" building near Abbott Kinney and Santa Clara, which could soon be soon a new veggie restaurant by the people behind Gjelina. Harrington is in town for EuroTrash, the second in a series of Beverly Hills art shows curated by David Lazarides. more ›

The Summer-long schedule of gallery shows in Beverly Hills by Lazarides is revving up for its second show with some street art in downtown Los Angeles. "EuroTrash" will feature four edgy European artists beginning next week, but as traditional when street artists come to town, they leave some of their work on city streets for the public to enjoy (or debate whether it's enjoyable art or not). more ›

Located at 3200-3300 E. Olympic Blvd. in Boyle Heights, The Estrada Courts is a low-income housing project known for its colorful murals depicting the Chicano experience. The housing was built in the early 1940s in response to the housing crisis in Southern California that took place due to the boom in World War II-era industry work, "followed by the return of servicemen to the region and the Bracero program," according to Wikipedia. more ›

Artist and native Angeleno Gronk (nee Glugio Nicandro) will be creating a mural live at the Fowler Museum at the end of April as part of the temporary exhibit now running called "Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA." Gronk's piece, per a press release, will depict "current ethnic struggles." Visitors to the Fowler during regular hours on April 21-23, and 28-30 can watch Gronk paint the mural, as well as meet the artist himself. more ›

When downtown's Bob Hope Patriotic Hall opens in 2012, it will not only be home to L.A. County’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, but also to three of Kent Twitchell's latest murals, the county's Arts Commission announced today. The works will celebrate lost murals by Helen Lundeberg, which were painted in 1942 during the Works Progress Administration and later destroyed after placed in storage in a neighboring building that was subsequently demolished. more ›

Despite being one of the artists at the center of a mural controversy with Los Angeles officials, Phil Lumbang continues to spread his works of love throughout the city. A mural of his went up in December outside The Standard in downtown and now the hotel's West Hollywood sister is getting the same treatment. Find Lumbang's newest work painted directly on the back of the vitrine. It should be up through March. more ›