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 ...

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 ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

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 ...

Some thirty years have passed since the award-winning film “Style Wars” was released, bringing to the world’s attention the little-understood graffiti culture of 1980s New York. Now a new documentary ...

The day before the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, I attended the unveiling of Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama "HOPE" portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. As street ...

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 ...

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 later overturned the decision to hold her for ...

They were still young, and in the illusionary cocoon of their high school, they had not yet learned fear. When the secret police came for Ali Fouad Abdul Ridha, the 17-year-old glanced over his ...

A FEW years ago, drivers on the M40 Oxford-to-London road were confronted with a question. Over a metre high, and more than 30 metres long, the painted conundrum on a fence in the Chiltern Gap was ...

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 ...