The graffiti appeared in the midst of a turf war between Angelenos and federal agents carrying out Trump’s crackdown on ...
A “Wizard of Oz” mural loomed over a D.C. park for 23 years. When other artists painted over it, one of the creators — a ...
While some have praised the spontaneous art, others have denounced it as "vandalism" and "crime run amok," not to mention "a massive eyesore." The response to LA's graffiti towers Last week ...
Is graffiti art or vandalism? Is graffiti harmful, and is an abandoned property made worse by graffiti? And what does graffiti say about the state of Los Angeles overall? More than a month later ...
The first graffiti art I ever saw here were the river cats, Leo Limon’s whimsical feline faces on the storm drain openings into the Los Angeles River. They gave life — nine lives — to our ...
In Los Angeles, artistic takeovers of abandoned high rises and mansions force us to ask a crucial question: why aren’t empty ...
In most months there are between 25,000 and 30,000 graffiti clean-ups in Los Angeles. Curiously, the 2024 low was in June, with under 23,000 reports, and the high occurred in July. January 2025 ...
Today, a Dallas-based auction house sold off what it called the “intimate” contents of the Los Angeles studio of RETNA, a graffiti artist ... a lawsuit claiming the art now in the possession ...