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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A showcase has just arrived for art created along rail roads. The people behind the work are quick to tell you: it's dangerous and could land you in big trouble. A place in ...

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 ...

LISBON (Reuters Life!) - When Lisbon town hall repainted the graffiti-covered walls of the bohemian Bairro Alto district, the move was welcomed by most, but graffiti artists say the urban art gallery ...

For decades, graffiti has been a part of the New Orleans landscape. But City Councilmember Eugene Green says he’s had enough. He wants the fine for graffiti writing to be increased from $100 to $500 ...

Martha Cooper was a staff photographer for the New York Post in the late 1970s, curious about the big, spray-painted letters increasingly covering the city’s buildings, parks and subway cars. Cooper ...

Museum of the City of New York’s new exhibition features artists like Keith Haring, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, and Futura 2000. Lee Quiñones, “Breakfast at Baychester” (1977) (image courtesy Museum of ...

And there it is again. Our mayor’s obsession with graffiti. It appears in the third paragraph of an article that concerns Sound Transit’s acquisition of downtown’s 1.3-mile tunnel from King County ...

There is more to the election-related graffiti writing that pops up on walls every election season, says Neetha Joseph K, a doctoral scholar of the Department of Design at IIT Hyderabad. Her research ...

From works that make you ponder your existential meaning in the universe, to the evocative message of “I ams here lol,” ...

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 ...