This video breaks down the fundamentals of graffiti for beginners who want to get started the right way. Learn essential spray can control, clean line techniques, basic tag styles, and letter ...

From the outside, the abandoned Family Dollar store in the Lower 9th Ward looks intimidating. It’s covered in graffiti, with ...

The city’s towering challenges include an abandoned skyscraper covered in graffiti. At David Kordansky Gallery, it inspires a ...

Not only is the graffiti a visual eyesore, but it can also cause environmental harm. Spray paint often contains harmful ...

We've all noticed it. The past few months have seen a big uptick in graffiti on the Tube. What's causing the unsightly surge, and what are the authorities doing about it? We might all moan from time ...

The basement of the Cathedral of Learning is home to a myriad of pipes, flickering lights and, for an hour this Wednesday, a colorful cloud of paint. On Oct. 16, the Center for Creativity hosted an ...

To many, it’s ugly vandalism that blights the city. For others, it can rise to a form of art in the right hands. It’s been used to mark gang turf and as a form of political dissent. Graffiti has been ...

Los Angeles has always had a contradictory relationship with graffiti and the street cultures that birthed it. The city spends more than $11 million painting over graffiti each year, according to the ...

Terrence Smith has been writing since his early childhood, when he wrote his first fanfiction: Taz in the Temple of Cyber Power. He has grown up on Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft consoles in the ...

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