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 prominent street art curator — did something surprising: He sued.

Graffiti adorns a wall in the “undercroft” of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images ...

Initially, the LA-based artist thought the unsanctioned additions to his work were “awesome, art talking to each other, a 21-gun salute,” and a natural part of creating a public mural, but ...

Ismael Illescas grew up admiring the graffiti around his neighborhood in Los Angeles. He had migrated to the city with his mother and brother from Ecuador in the 1990s as part of a large Latin ...

In 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported that similar efforts to fight vandalism with graffiti murals were happening in New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia.

Drawn uninvited to viaducts, L trains, abandoned buildings and other sometimes-dangerous settings, his artwork is “testing the bounds of what graffiti is,” a gallery owner says.

With that in mind, on Monday night, the school board added $120,000 to the Foster School painting contract, for anti-graffiti ...

A white supremacist slogan was tagged on an anti-Trump art project in Brooklyn, and supporters said Thursday they are raising money to relocate the display. “Wall of Lies,” a 50-by-10-f… ...

He estimates the art wall got its start in the mid-2000s. “I think that somebody that was doing community service there just approached them about it,” he recalled.

Wall 2 Wall, a loose collective of top graffiti artists in and around the central Pennsylvania area, marked the end of a monthslong mural project with the Crowded Kitchen piece in time for a First ...

A CAB member who goes by DTeK says he knew someone from the building and got permission to paint the wall. “It’s a good thing for the kids,” says DTeK, who’s 37 and lives in Cicero.

July 13, 2018 North Philly graffiti wall to come down, but a new canvas will replace it Corner of 5th and Cecil B. Moore has long been a changing landscape of gritty, modern and emotional art ...