In LA, graffiti has been around for more than a century, telling and tracing the history of the city. It’s all documented in the new book, “The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti.” ...
Miami Art Week is getting a heavy dose of graffiti history and evolution as the Museum of Graffiti celebrates its sixth anniversary with a complete exhibition rework. The museum’s new two-part show, ...
Eric Kroll, "Patti Astor at Keith Haring's FUN Gallery Show" (1983) (image courtesy MOCA LA) On April 17, MOCA LA’s Art in the Streets exhibition opens. The show, which was organized in roughly a year ...
Remains of a pylon and the Temple of Dendûr in Dandūr, Egypt (photo by Maison Bonfils, late 19th century, courtesy and via the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division) Saqqara is an ...
Graffiti artists learn early not to get too attached. Ephemera is as central to their medium as spray paint. Some works last months, others don’t make it through the night. Even the most famous pieces ...
Unless you’ve painted it yourself, have you ever really looked at graffiti? Sure, you may have watched it flick past the window of the Metro, or stopped to gawk for a few seconds while walking down ...
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For the past decade, blocks of real-estate developments in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood have served as outdoor canvases for thousands of street artists. Today, the area has become a mini American ...
In 1999, two Miamians emblematized the clash between graffiti artists and a city that wanted them behind bars. Crook and Crome (whom the media didn’t initially know were different people) were ...
WASHINGTON — U Street is mostly deserted when Aceba Broadus and his three-person crew from the District of Columbia's Department of Public Works start setting up shop before 8 a.m. at one of D.C.'s ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U Street is mostly deserted when Aceba Broadus and his three-person crew from the District of Columbia's Department of Public Works start setting up shop before 8 a.m. at one of D.C.