End of the Road for Baylor Street Art Wall? When renowned street artists and local graffiti artists collide By Ramon Martinez, Fri., Aug. 12, 2011 Tweet print write a letter ...

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.

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.

We want to elevate the position of Arabic letters, especially the letter dhad, which is a distinguished one, in the art of graphic design and graffiti,” he said.

For director Roger Gastman, the “innocence” in Wall Writers: Graffiti In Its Innocence is a bit of a fallacy. His documentary may be about graffiti’s early, pre-commercialized rise to prominence in ...