But for the writers who risked life, limb, and arrest, and the teenagers, filmmakers, and, eventually, curators who admired them, graffiti was an art form ... Cornbread and Cool Earl scrawled ...

“[It] morphed into street art, which is [often] more legal; permissible big walled murals, [that’s] the word that people are using now,” says Cooper, “I see graffiti and street art being ...

This is all to say: Graffiti scares this city. They say that artists like me and my husband just inspire young people to become vandals. If graffiti is inspiring, it's because it's fun ...