However, graffiti artists saw these as mere challenges and worked even harder to hit their targets. Graffiti was anything but eradicated. In fact, it has spread around the world. “Graffiti, at its ...

Graffiti is certainly not a new kid on the urban block. In ancient Pompeii, houses were brightly painted in reds, yellow and blue, ideal surfaces for everything from electoral slogans and ...

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal. Updated December 4, 2014, 9:16 AM Anyone who glorifies graffiti needs to ...

The Baltimore Sun did the city a disservice by publishing a front page article characterizing graffiti as “art” and “beautiful chaos” (“Baltimore resident documents ci… ...

Alley-Barnes says that there are lines not to cross when it comes to street art, and that is what Seattle is pushing back on. One major line is the "negative behavior" Alley-Barnes spoke about.

The first graffiti art I ever saw here were the river cats, Leo Limon’s whimsical feline faces on the storm drain openings into the Los Angeles River. They gave life — nine lives — to our ...

Graffiti writing as a common form of street art makes a lot of sense in a place like Los Angeles. Long, frequent commutes make boulevards and freeways the ideal canvas for artists to get eyes on a ...

Some of the graffiti art, including a painting of Bart Simpson, that graced Ann Arbor's Graffiti Alley on May 23, 2023, before it was taken over by "Farts." (Ryan Stanton ...

“Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti 1972/3” has the feel of a time capsule that never veers too far into didacticism, while the art almost makes you feel like you’re there.