JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Using spray paint cans, they defaced public property, insulted the police and complained that youths didn't have a voice in Saudi Arabia. Sign up here. Dozens of young ...

Adam Mansbach, author of Go the Fuck to Sleep and Rage Is Back, describes how the Michel de Montaigne aphorism "I write to compose myself" guides him. By Heart is a series in which authors share and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oscar Davalos began tagging when he was 12 years old. He and his friends would sneak out at night armed with cans of spray paint, scrawling their names on walls throughout East Oakland. The attraction ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Neighbors in southwest Denver, tired of scrubbing neon graffiti squiggles and lines off their homes and storefronts only to watch them reappear, are fighting ...

NEW YORK (AP) - In torn jeans and saddled with a black backpack, Andrew Witten glances up and down the street for police. The 51-year-old then whips out a black marker scribbles 'Zephyr' on a wall ...

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 ...

A new graffiti exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields is adding fuel to the debate over “aerosol art.” An exhibition of graffiti at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields is ...

LISBON (Reuters Life!) - When Lisbon town hall repainted the graffiti-covered walls of the bohemian Bairro Alto district, the move was welcomed by most, but graffiti artists say the urban art gallery ...

Redditors debated various theories. “It sounds like foot drop, which is a neurological condition requiring spinal surgery,” suggested one commenter. Observing the similarity of Toeflop to TOEFL (Test ...