Image: Matt Brown By 2010, the mural was in a parlous state, much faded and tagged with graffiti. Happily, it's since been rescued and restored, with help from Global Street Art. Today ...

Newly selected artist NTEL will soon complete the next 100-foot section of the mural on Nelson Hackett Boulevard.

And the city's dazzling street art inspires for another reason: Much is created by women, national pioneers in what is often thought of as a male-dominated domain. Murals "can be very physical on ...