Street art is a powerful contemporary art platform. It's difficult to find a city that has not been touched by it. Its presence changes with time and external influences, as does the power and ...

The origin of the term "graffiti" can be traced back to the Greek word “graphein,” meaning "to write," and the Italian word graffito, meaning "a scratch." In ancient times, graffiti was often carved ...

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 ...

As Cody Silva spray-paints a mural of triangles forming a mountain on the patio of Flat Black Art Supply at Westfield Palm Desert, he's in a zen state as he carefully sprays white and green paint ...

After Emily McMeen spotted black-and-white cow print graffiti on an Interstate 76 on-ramp leaving Roxborough, it wasn't long before she started noticing similar street art around the area and began ...

Baltimore graffiti writers’ skills will be projected six stories high Thursday night. At “Art After Dark” at The Meadow at 200 Park Ave. from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., the spray-paint transformation of ...