Anti-Kim Jong Il graffiti was found on the wall of a college in Pyongyang. Of course, the government couldn't just wash it off. They locked down the entire capital to hunt for the culprit

Sucks to be a graffiti artist these days. (Not really, it's AWESOME.) On the one hand, you have the art world fawning over you more than ever, and you're in all types of museum shows and you have contracts to design sneakers and corporate America is absolutely dying to harvest a little bit of your coolness. On the other hand, you're in jail.

Drawing Hitler moustaches on subway movie posters, yearbook pictures and images of Barack Obama is a time honored tradition in America. But in Britain, drawing one on a Conservative politician's campaign poster can turn a tiny, quiet hamlet into a police state. At least that's what happened to Pitcombe, Somerset, after one appeared on a likeness of Conservative councillor Mike Beech in the village and he called police to cry about it.

For the first time in the history of red spray paint in the vicinity of a poster girl's breasts, a vandal made a billboard less sexual. To advertise an exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the billboard in Long Lake, MN featured a 16th-century Titian painting of Venus. The vandal painted a red tube top over Venus' breasts and commented, "Brrr!"

Christian de Souza Jensen, who does graffiti art under the name Prosimian, posted a time-lapse video of his latest work—a huge mural on a wall in a picturesque part of Malta. The painting is themed after the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. We're not sure what that has to do with Santa Clause being tortured, but it's fun to see a master ply his craft.

This has to be the most complicated and effective way to paint a rainbow. We're all looking forward to the possibility of seeing more rainbows on drab, grey walls.

The amount of profane graffiti in the Brooklyn Criminal Court's men's bathrooms has gotten out of control. So bad, in fact, that even the offenders are offended: "It makes it depressing to come here," one lawbreaker told the Daily News.

Is it possible to improve the view from the Eiffel Tower? Yes! It is! With a massive penis, drawn in the snow on the gardens below. What wonderful pubic art! Public. Public art! [RoelandP via BoingBoing]

[Paris Hilton painted over MS-13 gang graffiti (uh oh) wearing high heels in Los Angeles yesterday as part of her community service for a drug conviction or something. Image via Pacific Coast News]

Julie Torres was painting a watercolor mural on a piece of paper hung on a Williamsburg construction wall when she was arrested by undercover cops for "graffiti" this summer. Score one for law and order over harmless art!

Today's most provocative message wheat-pasted onto a Manhattan building: why does Che get all the good endorsements? Mussolini just needs a better graphic designer. This is 100% true. Kids don't know who either of them are. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter]

This fantastic short combines the elegance of stop-motion animation with matchbox cars and graffiti to create a perfectly current city scene. It's a nice reminder that the simplest shooting techniques can still be used inventively to create beautiful work.

[A despicable vandal ruins the clean negative space of a subway sign with a reference to a favorite saying of Queens rappers like Mobb Deep's Prodigy and Nas. Pic via butter team.]

Italian street artist Blu brings his paintings to life—literally—by animating them into a continuing sequence of flowing images. The detail provided for each individual image is immense and the final outcome rivals anything ever produced by CGI.

It's time to send your unbearable children far away to summer camp, so that you may have a moment's peace! Oh here's one: "Graffiti and Street Art Camp." The most hardcore summer camp ever? Actually, the opposite!

In the wee hours of Monday morning, some Russian revolutionaries sneaked onto a drawbridge and spray-painted the Cosmic Cock, in honor of Che Guevara's bday. When the drawbridge raised at 1:40 am, there the unit was, pointing into the sky.

A sticker of this image was found at Reagan National Airport last week, prompting DHS officials to ask law enforcement agencies who might be responsible. Artist Rene Gagnon told Wired, "Those are spray-paint cans on my chest, not bombs."

Today in "Why Detroit Can't Have Nice Things:" one Detroit newspaper caught a writer for another Detroit newspaper tagging up a brand new bridge—which was, by definition, the nicest thing in Detroit. Allow us to defend her crime!

The more popular Shepard "OBEY" Fairey gets with the Obama poster crowd, the less popular he gets with the hardcore street art crowd. Shep just finished up a huge, highly publicized legal mural on Houston Street. How's that looking now?

Some merry japester has painted curses on the Pope's Bavarian birthplace! It's already been painted over, though. The police won't reveal what it said (probably, "fuck the Pope," in German), or whether it was Jews or gays.