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A person removes a piece of art work by Banksy, which shows what looks like three drones on a traffic stop sign, which was unveiled at the intersection of Southampton Way and Commercial Way in Peckham, south east London, Dec. 22, 2023. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
December 24, 2023, 10:38 am
London police nab man for theft of Banksy piece interpreted as call for a Gaza truce
Traffic stop sign covered in three military drones grabbed by two men hours after artist confirmed latest work; police request help finding lost piece
By Agencies
One of the 38 Tel Aviv Walls of Hope street paintings curated by street artist yamb0x.eth with Free Our Kids IL, in effort to create international pressure to free the 38 children held hostage by Hamas since October 7, 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 21, 2023, 4:47 pm
Street artists paint Tel Aviv wall murals about child hostages
Free Our Kids IL and artist Yamb0x.eth collaborate on Walls of Hope street paintings in Florentin neighborhood
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli artist Ronit Levin Delgado in New York City’s Union Square, October 16, 2023. (Luke Tress JTA)
October 19, 2023, 1:04 am
NYC ‘Kidnapped’ posters calling attention to Israeli hostages keep getting torn down
Created by Israeli street artists in the city for an art residency, the signs have caught on across the globe – and have emerged as a new front in the battle for hearts and minds
By Luke Tress
Mural in Patras, Greece, by KLE, showing the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust (courtesy)
December 9, 2022, 10:30 pm
Street mural project honors unknown ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ in their homelands
With first installations completed in Greece and Portugal, an international initiative celebrates Holocaust rescuers and educates on antisemitism
By Matt Lebovic
Orly, whose personal details as an aguna, a chained woman, are listed on one of the posters plastered in south Tel Aviv as part of Yom HaAguna, February 24, 2021 (Courtesy DODO)
February 24, 2021, 4:23 pm
Tel Aviv street art aims to raise awareness of ‘chained’ women
Activists post signs spotlighting issue of women denied a religious divorce, ahead of Fast of Esther
By Jessica Steinberg
Street art in Tel Aviv by Imaginary Duck. (Lord K2)
October 3, 2020, 8:06 am
The disappearing street art of Tel Aviv’s gentrifying Florentin neighborhood
As developers rush to ‘clean up’ bohemian area and artists are pushed further to the city’s south, a cultural center is in danger of being erased
By Lord K2
Designer Yoav Gati makes doodles out of discarded gloves. (Courtesy of Yoav Gati/ via JTA)
May 15, 2020, 9:54 am
How Tel Aviv creatives made art out of the COVID-19 crisis
From giving stories and discarded gloves on the street to outfitting portraits on shekel bills with personal protective gear, Israelis aren’t wasting a chance to make a statement
By Karen Chernick
In this March 5, 2015 photo, youth dance at a local wedding in Salam City, a suburb on the outskirts of Cairo, to Mahraganat music. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
February 17, 2020, 7:23 pm
Egypt bans popular street music after deeming it too racy
Restrictions target singers of ‘mahraganat,’ which has roots in impoverished Cairo suburbs and spread after 2011 uprising that ousted longtime autocratic president
By AFP
Julie Robertson painted a mural of Hannah Senesh in downtown San Diego. (Courtesy of Robertson)
October 5, 2019, 7:47 pm
Why a Japanese-American artist painted a mural of Nazi fighter Hannah Senesh
Christian artist Julie Robertson learned about one of the country’s national heroes earlier this year during a trip to Israel, says she was struck by her bravery
By Josefin Dolsten
'Nazi-Kiez' sprayed on a wall, opposite a house on which imperial flags hang out of the windows in Dortmund' Germany, Sept.6, 2019 (Fabian Strauch/dpa via AP)
September 7, 2019, 9:41 am
German city fights neo-Nazi graffiti with street art
Artists cover slogans in Dortmund with colorful images in move sanctioned by city authorities and police after project was commissioned by civil society group
By AP
Shiry Avny explains on a tour how street artists apply their work on many different surfaces. (Robert Sarner/ Times of Israel)
March 2, 2019, 2:58 pm
Israelis in Paris give gritty, alternative art tours of the City of Love
Painting the town red, these street walkers don’t shy away from the under belly of the Parisian urban art scene
By Robert Sarner
Poet and playwright Roie Ravitzky, creator of Jerusalem's "Street Talk" art series, in front of a mural on Gaza street in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
December 15, 2018, 10:54 am
On Jerusalem’s streets, an ancient wanderer inspires a modern day ode to home
‘Street Talk’ project brightens the capital’s walls with illustrations and poetry imagining 12th century Benjamin Metudela as a 21st-century backpacker
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Some find the 'Lucky Jew' phenomenon anti-Semitic, others find it harmless and rooted in nostalgia. (Jason Francisco/via JTA)
August 18, 2018, 8:40 am
Why ‘Lucky Jew’ imagery is so popular in Poland
Offensive to some and just bizarre to others, the sale of stereotypical figures of Jews as good luck charms started in the 1960s
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Israeli-born New York-based street artist Sara Erenthal smiles in front of one of her murals in Tel Aviv on January 28, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
March 14, 2018, 11:19 am
Beyond belief: From strict ultra-Orthodox roots to street artist
Sara Erenthal, 36, fled her Neturei Karta family at 17, when her parents told her they had found her a husband; she is now a celebrated Brooklyn-based artist
By Delphine Matthieussent
Pedestrians look on as workers remove a large penis mural from a building in New York City, December 2017 (YouTube screenshot)
December 31, 2017, 4:31 pm
Jewish landlord removes artist’s giant penis mural from NY building
Swede Carolina Falkholt says the explicit painting was intended to send a message about body acceptance
By JTA
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