Melbourne Now didn’t open with a bang, but with 25 compressed and paint-filled fire extinguishers. In a gesture reminiscent of smashing a champagne bottle on the side of a boat, Ash Keating, in his ...

Wander around Melbourne, the capital of Victoria and the second-biggest city in Australia, and you are bound to eventually run into some street art. Melbourne has a long and storied history of street ...

It seems that Melbourne City Council just can’t get it right when it comes to street art, and especially when it comes to the work of Banksy: two weeks ago, they “accidentally” ordered a cleaning crew ...

Alison Young receives funding from the Australian Research Council to investigate cultural, social and legal responses to street art. She works for the University of Melbourne. The National Gallery of ...