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 ...

Ismael Illescas grew up admiring the graffiti around his neighborhood in Los Angeles. He had migrated to the city with his mother and brother from Ecuador in the 1990s as part of a large Latin ...

On entering Suburban Station from the 16th street entrance, one is welcomed by a vast, bare-walled concourse, strewn with empty lots. And then you turn right. A painting made to look like a subway car ...

Tagging, once considered vandalism, has gained cachet and economic value in the art world. Ashim D’Silva for Unsplash.com, CC BY-SA The vibrantly colored walls in such places attract travelers to ...

Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have transformed ...

Thanks Radical Graffiti for informing me where my next job is! This is the message I woke up to on January 26, as one of my research participants saw some anti-colonial graffiti in Melbourne posted on ...