OAKLAND — The California Penal Code classifies unauthorized graffiti as “vandalism” — a crime that can cost the offender a sizable fine or even jail time. But Estria Miyashiro, of Oakland, a veteran ...

CEBU, Philippines - Whether as a form of protest or just plain visual merchandising, urban art is slowly engulfing the streets of Cebu now that more and more visual artists are mushrooming in this ...

Call it a new “tag” line to the story of Los Angeles’ war on graffiti: Crime can pay. That was one of the messages delivered Thursday to educators, representatives of arts and civics organizations and ...

There is a constant positivity that Damon McLeese brings to each work day at the VSA Colorado Access Gallery in the Art District on Santa Fe. You can see it, you can hear it, the second anyone walks ...

Lady Pink is an artist and muralist. Updated July 11, 2014, 6:15 PM Last summer, the New York Police department barged into my house in Queens, arrested my husband on vandalism charges and took away ...

graffiti Creative bar bathroom graffiti straddles art, potty humor Have you ever walked into a restroom and found yourself spending more time reading the graffiti on the walls than going to the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A few days before Christmas, Australian street artist Damien Mitchell finished spray-painting a wall outside a red-brick bar called ...

A two-story Madonna at prayer is one of the bigger pieces in the Grand River Creative Corridor's footprint in Detroit, a space where graffiti is explicitly permitted. (Photo by Nancy Derringer) The ...

Talk Show Host and Columnist at Seattle Red AM 770 Seattle councilmember Teresa Mosqueda thinks gang graffiti and Antifa tagging is “unsolicited creative expression” and art. She thinks cleaning it up ...

RAVE to the creative graffiti I see here in Seattle and back home in Paris! RANT AND RAVE Rant to the car thieves who stole through our neighborhood the other week. Rant to me for leaving my car ...

Dust Depo Art Studio at the Kenya Railway Museum is one space in Nairobi that doesn’t just fill one hallowed hall. It actually extends from the Museum gate all the way down and around a long dirt road ...