Is graffiti art or vandalism? Is graffiti harmful, and is an abandoned property made worse by graffiti? And what does graffiti say about the state of Los Angeles overall? More than a month later ...

The first graffiti art I ever saw here were the river cats, Leo Limon’s whimsical feline faces on the storm drain openings into the Los Angeles River. They gave life — nine lives — to our ...

(The Los Angeles City Attorney confirmed ... world is going to see this.’” Historically, graffiti has often been used as protest art. While the practice dates back thousands of years, it ...

Graffiti writing as a common form of street art makes a lot of sense in a place like Los Angeles. Long, frequent commutes make boulevards and freeways the ideal canvas for artists to get eyes on a ...

(The Los Angeles City Attorney confirmed ... world is going to see this.’” Historically, graffiti has often been used as protest art. While the practice dates back thousands of years, it ...

"They look at graffiti bad, but we look at it as art. Like expressing what you have in your mind, your feelings. And we're expressing through paint." In a 2009 ordinance, the city of Los Angeles ...

Susan Phillips, author of “The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti” and a professor ... Chalfant’s canonical 1988 book, “Subway Art.” (He also compared it to a smaller ...

There's a new public art project here in Los Angeles that can be seen for miles around. It's a cluster of empty, unfinished skyscrapers in downtown that have been emblazoned by graffiti artists.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise development. The vandalism is the latest twist in ...

LOS ANGELES — Just after dawn ... author Susan Phillips; LA graffiti legend Chaz Bojorquez; and other scholars from the worlds of street art, ecology, biology, and beyond. Installation view ...