Artist and scholar Stefano Bloch has written a story that is personal, but also a primer on graffiti’s history and artistic and social import. Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti ...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Using spray paint cans, they defaced public property, insulted the police and complained that youths didn't have a voice in Saudi Arabia. Sign up here. Dozens of young ...
Graffiti and tattoos seem like total opposities. One is ephemeral, lasting only until it’s painted over by the city or other writers, the other is forever, or at least unless you decide to rip the ink ...
Zephyr, Janette Beckman – Run DMC, New York City, 1986. As graffiti writers rose to prominence during the early 1970s, hip hop was a logical partner. With similar identities in the same culture, it ...
We look at crazy Kenyans whose intelligence shines only when writing in loos We address why adults waste time scribbling insults, philosophical, humorous and political quotes as they empty their ...
Source: Stefano Bloch / Used with permission. Most nights of his adolescence, Stefano Bloch snuck out of his house with a singular goal: to spray-paint his nickname, Cisco, on billboards, buildings, ...
On entering Suburban Station from the 16th street entrance, one is welcomed by a vast, bare-walled concourse, strewn with empty lots. And then you turn right. A painting made to look like a subway car ...
A new graffiti exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields is adding fuel to the debate over “aerosol art.” An exhibition of graffiti at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields is ...