Our latest quote of the day is taken from a viral poem scrawled on a wall in Xi’an titled “My Rights” by the anonymous poet “Sowing Seeds Alone.” The poem is a call to protect the rights of “pedestrians” against the domination...
An underpass in Zhengzhou has quietly become a site of contention over artistic freedom. A photograph of the poem “Momma” by the little-known artist Zhang Boyi, graffitied underneath a Zhengzhou bridge in May, went viral on...
The slogans that make up the “12 Core Socialist Values” are a common sight on Chinese streets, as they were—for a tumultuous few hours this weekend—on London’s famous Brick Lane, where a Chinese student at the Royal...
Texan Lance Crayon, in China since 2009, has produced a documentary film exploring the tiny street...
While authorities try to rein in unruly tourists with a new 64-page instruction booklet, staff at...
While the Olympic themed street-art of England’s eminent and anonymous pop-cultural delinquent may soon disappear from the walls of London, Voice of America interviews graffiti artist Wang Mo on the chic and seditious...
The AFP reports that two activists have been arrested for pro-Ai Weiwei graffiti in Hong Kong: The two members of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy party, the League of Social Democrats (LSD), were detained on criminal damage...
From AFP: Clean-cut 23-year-old design graduate Chen Chuang sprayed a whitewashed wall in central Beijing in broad daylight with big jagged blue letters — his clan’s signature — before scurrying away....
From PTI: China will ban graffiti and driving on the 6,700 km Great Wall, as part of measures to protect the ancient wonder. A regulation, promulgated by the State Council, Chinese Cabinet, forbids taking soil or bricks from the Great Wall, planting trees, carving on the wall or building anything on the wall that is […]
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