Francis Tuttle students work to revive Bob Waldmire’s Route 66 mural truck

Automotive training students at Francis Tuttle are restoring a piece of Route 66 history.The students were given a box truck that used to belong to artist Bob W ...

Artists warn gentrification is pushing them out of Pilsen, a hub for Mexican mural art. Some are fighting to stay.

Vivid blues, yellows and reds make the brick facades along West 18th Street pop. Paintings of faces, birds and other subjects draw foot traffic into alleyways and eyes onto the side of buildings, ...

AZ digest. Arizona lands top hoops prospect, mural honors HS players

Here are the news and events happening around Arizona sports.
Texas Standard

New novel ‘The Mural’ tells fiction story based on Uvalde shooting

Based on the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, “The Mural” is a novel that explores themes of violent radicalism, ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

Local program spotlighted for training Cincinnati’s next generation of mural artists

A GoFundMe created for the family has raised almost $100,000. Tow truck driver hospitalized after being hit while working in Clermont County Ohio Highway Patrol says this happened in the area of SR-32 ...
New York Post

Mural of murdered Ukrainian refugee that’s loathed by local lefties vandalized in NYC: ‘It’s disgusting’

It’s art imitating strife. A mural of a murdered Ukrainian refugee that’s loathed by local lefties for its “tough-on-crime” message and ties to Elon Musk was vandalized in Manhattan — irking neighbors ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Mural of slain Ukrainian refugee, linked to effort funded by Elon Musk, appears in Chicago

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AARP

Recipient of AARP’s Community Challenge grant continues to help North Dakota’s communities flourish

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IEEE

MuralDiff: Diffusion for Ancient Murals Restoration on Large-Scale Pre-Training

Abstract: This paper focuses on the crack detection and digital restoration of ancient mural cultural heritage, proposing a comprehensive method that combines the Unet network structure and diffusion ...
The Guardian

Maga is funding murals of a slain Ukrainian refugee. Are they weaponizing her memory?

More than $1m has been raised by Elon Musk and others to commission ‘sterile’ street art of Iryna Zarutska – whose death has become a rightwing flashpoint Like most blocks in Bushwick, New York, ...
New York Post

Elon Musk-funded mural of murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska goes up in Brooklyn — and local lefties are furious

A new mural of slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska that was funded in part by Elon Musk has popped up on a Brooklyn building — and furious local lefties claim it’s part of a right-wing plot. The ...
the Berkshire Edge

BITS & BYTES: WAM Theatre at Ventfort Hall; ‘Mutts Gone Nuts’ at The Colonial; Aston Magna Music Festival at Saint James Place; Spanish language tour at American Mural ...

Cloteal L. Horne directs Pearl Cleage’s ‘Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous’ at Ventfort Hall. Courtesy WAM Theatre. WAM Theatre presents a reading of Pearl Cleage’s ‘Angry, Raucous, and ...