Street art

 A mysterious creature playing piano, a white tiger baring its fangs, and a huge Batgirl: dozens of artists are busy this June painting giant frescoes for the tenth edition of Montreal's Mural festival.

Started in 2012, the street art event is looking to be crowned the "leader in urban art" in North America, organizer Pierre-Alain Benoit told AFP.

Milan's central train station plays host from Dec. 3 to a "World of Banksy", featuring reproductions of provocative works by the British street artist in something akin to their original real-world settings.

A piece of art created by Banksy was painted over by actor Christopher Walken in the final episode of BBC series The Outlaws.

The six-part comedy-drama follows a group of misfits renovating a derelict community centre in Bristol, as part of community service for crimes they have committed.

"The mural must go", declared a placard at a protest in the centre of Belgrade on Tuesday sparked by the arrests of two female activists, Aida Corovic and Jelena Jacimovic, who had thrown eggs at a mural of Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in the city.

Art fans and curious shoppers crowded around a disused shop in south London on Oct. 1 after notorious street artist Banksy set up a mini art exhibition in protest at a greetings card company.

A stenciled work by the elusive British street artist Banksy has been stolen from outside the Pompidou Center in Paris, the modern art museum announced Sept. 3.

New measures against scratching the facades of buildings in Sofia. The metropolitan municipality and the police draw up a register of authors' handwriting. The purpose is to catch a person who scratches on forbidden places to compare his handwriting with other graffiti in the database.

The Connor Brothers enthusiastic British artists, who compete with Banksy - an anonymous England-based street artist, present an exhibition at Oborishte 5 Gallery in Sofia.

They are known in the art as the mysterious American twins, but they are not actually brothers or artists, but art dealers.

Five years ago, British street artist Banksy adorned the side of a once uninspiring white brick building in Bristol with the familiar image of a girl gazing out solemnly.

British street artist Banksy has stunned the art world with arguably his most audacious prank yet, self-destructing one of his best-known works moments after it fetched more than a million pounds at auction in London.