Artist and scholar Stefano Bloch has written a story that is personal, but also a primer on graffiti’s history and artistic and social import. Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti ...

Zephyr, Janette Beckman – Run DMC, New York City, 1986. As graffiti writers rose to prominence during the early 1970s, hip hop was a logical partner. With similar identities in the same culture, it ...

Nisha Sembi captures the sights, sounds, and memories from her Motherland through a can of spray paint and the pages of her tattered black book. For Sembi, the world is a blank canvas, offering her a ...

Remains of a pylon and the Temple of Dendûr in Dandūr, Egypt (photo by Maison Bonfils, late 19th century, courtesy and via the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division) Saqqara is an ...

Source: Stefano Bloch / Used with permission. Most nights of his adolescence, Stefano Bloch snuck out of his house with a singular goal: to spray-paint his nickname, Cisco, on billboards, buildings, ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy Going after little girls who draw flowers certainly is a terrifying tactic. It’s also part of an emerging pattern. Fortunately, Hong Kong’s High Court ...

During the recent protests, a piece of graffiti in the Fairfax District simply read: “God Said Riot.” The message could be a testament to the righteousness of the current Black Lives Matter movement ...