Street Art
Rome's urban art faces the perils of the street while MACRO ushers the counterculture movement inside.
By Andy Devane"Otto!" hissed the wide-eyed little girl, chasing after her labrador through a gap in the wire fence...
Roman artist Gio Pistone is known for her eye-catching murals which are characterised by strong colour, rich imagination and geometric patterns.
Wanted in Rome put a series of questions to Pistone who was born in 1974 a...
120 Rome train stations to be transformed by street art.
A total of 120 train stations in and around Rome will be decorated by street artists thanks to the project Arte in stazione e città a colori.
The initiative...
Italian street artist paints giant apocalyptic mural in Rome.
The latest Rome mural by Italian street artist Blu, who keeps his real identity under wraps, has appeared in the Casal dè Pazzi district in the north-east...
Street art in Rome celebrates Pasolini 40 years after murder.
Portuguese street artist Frederico Draw has painted the latest mural in Rome dedicated to the Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual Pier Pao...
Street art project dedicated to female icons of cinema.
Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 100 this year, has been immortalised in a giant mural on a public staircase off Via Fiamignano in the north...
Big City Life is the latest in a series of street art projects boosting morale in neglected Roman neighbourhoods.
Over the last couple of years Rome's international reputation as a major player in global street art ha...
Street artists transform Rome's Pigneto district.
Milanese street artist 2501 has created a giant new mural on the side of an apartment block in the Pigneto district of Rome, on Via Fortebraccio.
The abstract mural...
Map available at tourist outlets
Rome has printed 50,000 copies of a new map highlighting the locations of 330 murals around the city.
The map, which features 150 streets in 30 districts from Testaccio to Tor Bella...
Mayor inaugurates city's latest urban art regeneration project.
The mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, inaugurated a major street art project in the Tor Marancia neighbourhood, south of the city centre, between the distri...
Piccolo Cinema America decorates Trastevere market
Artists attached to the Piccolo Cinema America in Trastevere have been busy decorating the nearby market square in Piazza S. Cosimato.
In recent days the delapidat...
Rome's tallest mural measures 32 metres
A giant mural depicting a man surfacing from a rubbish bin and sipping a coffee has appeared on an apartment block in the east Rome district of Torpignatarra.
The 32-m high...
Mural forms part of the WALLS urban regeneration project
The mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino has ordered the removal of a mural in the S. Basilio district because it features pigs in police uniforms.
The mural depicts...
Commuters greeted with lively murals
The Spagna metro station in Rome has become a free art gallery for commuters, thanks to the efforts of six street artists from France.
The corridors of the station most frequent...
Street art in Rome reaches new creative heights
From ancient Pompeii to the façades of buildings today, graffiti has been making walls, and people, talk for centuries. The word “graffiti” is derived from the Italian v...
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