The origin of the term "graffiti" can be traced back to the Greek word “graphein,” meaning "to write," and the Italian word graffito, meaning "a scratch." In ancient times, graffiti was often carved ...

Graffiti covering about 6,500 square feet of the Hammonds Rocks boulder outcropping and vista in Michaux State Forest, Cumberland County, will be among the first targets of a new volunteer program of ...

Two decades after Rudy Giuliani tried to rid New York City of graffiti, the art form is flourishing—with unexpected consequences. Graffiti artists learn early not to get too attached. Ephemera is as ...

&#8220That may or may not be the best avenue (to get rid of graffiti),C Basti said, adding he/d like to see more of the community volunteer to clean up graffiti in Oceano. &#8220If the community comes ...

THOSE who spray paint on public and private surfaces without the property owner's consent will be prosecuted as criminals, according to new legislation signed into law by President Ivan Gašparovič.

A patchwork of gray paint covers past graffiti messages left on Dwayne Reid’s property in east Yakima, and city of Yakima code compliance officer Joshua Viveros added a new gray block Wednesday, using ...

Graffiti today is such an accepted part of youth culture that it’s hard to imagine what New Yorkers experienced in the early seventies, as they watched their city become steadily tattooed with ...

Quinn Dombrowski went to the University of Chicago because Quinn Dombrowski is a great big giant nerd. She is cheerfully geeky, insistently nerdy. Quinn Dombrowski is such a huge nerd she frets that ...

The graffiti tag “Cool ‘Disco’ Dan” is connotative of all things D.C. during the 1980s and early 1990s—-citywide double-dutch competitions, the politics of then Mayor Marion Barry, the war on drugs ...

Graffiti is on the rise in the District, especially gang-related scrawls. D.C. officials said it's due to funding cuts. Gangs in D.C. are making their presence known on storefronts, alleyways, even ...