In Argentina, street artists say tolerance of graffiti equals unmatched freedom. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 29, 2009 — -- Writing on walls is not a modern phenomenon. Our distant ancestors ...

A painting called "Buff," by an artist who's known simply as "Lee," would sell for something like $90,000 -- quite a step up from his graffiti roots, when he was writing on the wall for free. Rita ...

Sacha Jenkins, left, co-curated the graffiti exhibit, “Write of Passage,” which opened in New York in October. Photos by Robert Adam Mayer/Red Bull Content Pool Armed with magic markers on a ...

Since its explosion onto city walls and subway cars in the 1970s, the increasing popularity of graffiti as an art form has won commercial success for its artists and a regular presence in pop culture ...

Downtown Brooklyn is getting tagged! Pieces from 25 graffiti well-known artists come together at “Get Lucky,” a new exhibit co-curated by Laura “Lulu” Reich, former associate director of West Chelsea ...

Should graffiti be considered art or vandalism? “It may be called art, but I don’t like it,” replied Paula DuBois of Gary. I asked DuBois this loaded question as she looked at a freshly painted ...

Needham students learned that graffiti can be art during a special weeklong program at Mitchell Elementary School. Cambridge-based graffiti artist Caleb Neelon taught a workshop to Mitchell students ...

The act of writing on a wall or on private property goes back centuries. However, there’s something uniquely American about the extent to which graffiti has been historically condemned as petty ...

Graffiti in Chicago is not always vandalism. Though tagging, the stylized signatures sometimes used as gang markings, still pervade alleys and the occasional blank wall, graffiti has come into its own ...

We’ve entered a golden age of graffiti art. It’s hard to overstate the importance of last week’s appellate court ruling that affirmed a $6.75 million court win for the 5Pointz street artists against a ...