Two decades after Rudy Giuliani tried to rid New York City of graffiti, the art form is flourishing—with unexpected consequences. Graffiti artists learn early not to get too attached. Ephemera is as ...

Los Angeles has always had a contradictory relationship with graffiti and the street cultures that birthed it. The city spends more than $11 million painting over graffiti each year, according to the ...

Graffiti is described in the Oxford Dictionary as “Writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.” Graffiti is defined as permanently ...

Barcelona's Prohibited Art Museum is hosting a debate that aims to examine the roots of graffiti and its path to being widely hailed now as one of the world's most important art forms. It has been ...

All too often, graffiti is categorised as either art or vandalism, when in fact it’s so much more than that. When read with special attention, graffiti can offer deep insights into societies ...

Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have transformed ...

Whether it’s tagging (the stylised writing of an individual or crew’s name), posters, stickers, installations, murals or mosaics, graffiti has always been a contentious issue. Countries like the US, ...

A patchwork of gray paint covers past graffiti messages left on Dwayne Reid’s property in east Yakima, and city of Yakima code compliance officer Joshua Viveros added a new gray block Wednesday, using ...