The first time you walk into the Back Door bar, you see them: a swarming crowd, an ocean of faces smiling at you. It's not a surprise party — or an intervention — but the walls themselves. A giant ...

When Evanston resident Teresa Parod takes out the garbage in the alley behind her house, she’s often greeted by people photographing her garage door. It’s adorned with a colorful mural that depicts ...

Cherie Nowlin McBride has painted many portraits in her lifetime, but the two-panel mural of fanciful dancers she created for Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center is one of the largest. "It took me ...

Students in Marya Bartholomew’s art class at Marin Oaks High School in Novato are designing and painting murals on doorways at the campus. The students are working with a local artist, Katya McCulloch ...

In a pool of white thrown by three portable lights, Miguel Hernandez, 16, and Tyler Prehm, 18, were hunched beneath a scaffolding, wielding tiny paintbrushes to paint a very small portion of a very ...

Chicago’s most Instagrammable alley, a new home development near the Illinois Medical District, is getting its second half, a row of lively garage-door murals facing the first half, which were ...

After almost 40 years in business, The Back Door in the Highlands closed its doors for good last week.The Back Door will be having an estate sale, selling everything inside the shuttered beloved ...