“On the one hand, it’s a capitalistic appropriation of transgressive graffiti into commercialized street art,” Illescas said. “But it also ties into the efforts of graffiti writers who have been ...

For the past year, the famous Bowery wall has been overtaken by graffiti in a street art turf war harkening back to a bygone New York. "Oh my god is the climate of graffiti a mess,” says a local ...

But beyond the festival, he doesn’t think professional graffiti artists use the Calwa Art Wall often. “Graffiti, being what it is, you don’t pay to paint.

A combination of graffiti pieces by local graffiti artists, some members of the collective Wall 2 Wall Lank, located on 18th street, on Monday Aug. 28, 2023. AMBER RITSON| Staff Photographer Buy Now ...

“Graffiti is a longstanding antisocial issue across the country, and so we’re pleased to be able to trial this legal art wall in Melksham, with the hope it can be a success to roll out into ...

Graffiti has become so mainstream in recent years that auction houses, museums and entire art shows cater to street art connoisseurs and collectors around the world. Images in the news of young ...

The L car versions of “Transformers” characters Optimus Prime and Megatron were created by the graffiti artist Emte as part of a hip hop-themed art contest last weekend.

One group that is well known for its political art in L.A. was Asco, a collective of Chicano artists whose work includes performance art like Stations of the Cross and graffiti writing like Spray ...