Tagging, the act of writing your graffiti name with spray paint or markers, is one of the most maligned, misunderstood and prosecuted forms of self expression. From its early beginnings in struggling ...

Since its explosion onto city walls and subway cars in the 1970s, the increasing popularity of graffiti as an art form has won commercial success for its artists and a regular presence in pop culture ...

A top hat and bright bandana don’t exactly match with the hot and humid Hong Kong summer, but it’s Alec Monopoly’s classic look whenever he’s seen in public. Rocking the get-up, the graffiti star live ...

The colourful graffiti which adorned the exteriors of New York's subway cars in the ‘70s and ‘80s was treated as vandalism by the authorities. But for HENRY CHALFANT, a sculptor who had majored in ...

Checking out the street art from the Drip Invitational, launched in Atlanta's Pittsburgh community after a property owner was cited, ironically, for graffiti on his building.

Graffiti artists like Coco, Flint and Riff were the bane of the subway system Forty years ago author Norman Mailer published an essay in which he declared the graffiti of the New York subway to be ...

Niels Meulman imagines medieval monk Eadfrith like a fellow graffiti artist "straight outta Lindisfarne" Dutch graffiti artist Niels Meulman, also known as Shoe, has been commissioned to paint six ...

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