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'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection
National News

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection

  • YAMIL LAGE
  • Jan 2, 2025

Cubans walk past graffiti in Havana telling them 'you need to be happy'

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection
National News

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection

  • YAMIL LAGE
  • Jan 2, 2025

The slogan is the work of Mr. Sad, a 27-year-old sociologist and anonymous graffiti artist

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection
National News

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection

  • YAMIL LAGE
  • Jan 2, 2025

The artist said his aim was to 'create a mirror so that people have the opportunity to take a moment to see what's inside them'

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection
National News

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection

  • YAMIL LAGE
  • Jan 2, 2025

Mr. Sad said he was inspired by the tradition of visual propaganda that Cuba has cultivated in the decades since the revolution

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection
National News

'You need to be happy': graffiti encourages Cuban self-reflection

  • Leticia Pineda
  • Jan 2, 2025

Graffiti on walls around Havana telling Cubans "you need to be happy" has encouraged introspection and inspiration in a country where censorsh…

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney
National News

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney

  • DAVID GRAY
  • Dec 10, 2024

A forensics police officer stands in front of the wall where anti-Israel graffiti has been removed in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney
National News

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney

  • Handout
  • Dec 10, 2024

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (2nd R) and Rabbi Shlomo Kohn (R) visit the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 10, 20…

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney
National News

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney

  • William WEST
  • Dec 10, 2024

Children from the local Jewish community look at the tributes left outside the torched Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 10, 2024

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney
National News

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney

  • AFP
  • Dec 10, 2024

Two suspects daubed anti-Israel graffiti and torched a car in a Sydney suburb on Wednesday, police said, sparking "outrage" from Australia's g…

Artist and teacher paints mural on the side of   his workplace, McRae-Ganes Learning Center
Education

Artist and teacher paints mural on the side of his workplace, McRae-Ganes Learning Center

  • BY TODD PRATER AND BRIONA NICHOLS
  • Updated Mar 21, 2024

Local artist and teacher Derrick Thomas is painting a mural on the side of McRae-Gaines Learning Center. 

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