On entering Suburban Station from the 16th Street entrance, one is welcomed by a vast, bare-walled concourse punctuated by empty retail spaces. And then you turn right. A painting made to look like a ...

Graffiti isn’t really vandalism, as many people think it is, but more of an art to those who see it as art. Graffiti can be considered art because it all depends on the view of how people see things.

Eric Kroll, "Patti Astor at Keith Haring's FUN Gallery Show" (1983) (image courtesy MOCA LA) On April 17, MOCA LA’s Art in the Streets exhibition opens. The show, which was organized in roughly a year ...

Allison Freidin discusses the future of the Museum of Graffiti, and what sets street art apart from other genres. Co-founders of the Museum of Graffiti, Allison Freidin and Alan Ket. Image courtesy of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Graffiti art has a long and storied history that stretches back to ancient civilizations, evolving from simple inscriptions and ...

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 ...

When it comes to the art world, graffiti has been historically neglected in terms of prestige and relegated to a guerrilla art form only appreciated by select groups of people. From universal messages ...

Paintings of SpongeBob and his friends on large boulders along the shoreline in Margaretsville, N.S., have some fans, but ...

In 2011, the city of Atlanta created a task force to stomp out graffiti in the city British artist Banksy is widely known for incorporating his activism with his street art It starts with a squiggle ...

Roger Gastman, the noted graffiti historian and street art collector, is opening a permanent Los Angeles home for Beyond the Streets, his popular series of museum-scale exhibitions celebrating street ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tagging, once considered vandalism, has gained cachet and economic value in the art world. Ashim D’Silva for Unsplash.com, CC ...

Graffiti or "rakugaki" in Japanese is the term for any basic public markings, whether big or small. It is usually associated with gangs, which were done mainly to “mark their territories.” It has also ...