If colorful ceramic tiles are your medium and potholes are your canvas, where better to create art than New Orleans?
The Crescent City’s reputation for bumpy, pockmarked streets is ultimately what called the renowned Buffalo Pothole Bandit to town. Hailing from Buffalo, New York, the anonymous street artist travels the U.S. in search of holes and cracks that need filling, packing them with concrete inlayed with colorful mosaics of tiles, beads, letters and found objects.
With nearly 18,000 followers on Instagram, the Bandit has renovated potholes from Oregon to Tennessee, gaining so much notoriety and media attention along the way, they spent a stint stumping for Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan — all without revealing their true identity. The artist goes to great lengths to remain anonymous, sometimes appearing in videos in a raccoon mask, partly because the legality of vigilante pothole filling is fuzzy in many localities…