These early forms of graffiti can still be seen in ancient Roman ruins, where inscriptions and symbols were etched into public spaces, serving as a precursor to the modern graffiti art movement.

Women graffiti writers have been pioneers in the modern graffiti movement since its origin over 50 years ago. Host Josef Lorenzo meets graffiti legends and learns about how graffiti began as an ...

For Ricks, that inability to grasp the motivation has been there since the earliest days of the modern graffiti movement — something he tracks to the early 1980s in New York City. “Most people ...

Defined as the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group, graffiti dates back to prehistoric times. Ancient cave art, like the Lascaux cave paintings in France, shares remarkable ...

Graffiti, an art form that began in the urban streets of New York City in the late 20th century, has blossomed into on ...

But modern graffiti, as distinguished from that in ancient Rome and the like, is generally considered to have begun in 1960s New York and Philadelphia, where bored, fame-hungry teenagers would spray ...

For Ricks, that inability to grasp the motivation has been there since the earliest days of the modern graffiti movement — something he tracks to the early 1980s in New York City. “Most people don’t ...