The origin of the term "graffiti" can be traced back to the Greek word “graphein,” meaning "to write," and the Italian word graffito, meaning "a scratch." In ancient times, graffiti was often ...

The vandalism of a piece by the graffiti ... contemporary art. By Youmi Kim and Mike Ives SEOUL — The couple saw brushes and paint cans in front of a paint-splattered canvas at a gallery in ...

That lettering is embellished with 3D styling and abstract, surrealist and semi-surrealist art by the best graffiti artists ... be working and showing arts on canvas. For many artists, it will ...

Writers moved to canvas, and the results ... The mainstream New York art world quickly lost interest in graffiti. Wong did not. In 1989, he opened a Museum of American Graffiti on Bond Street.

Saber, a Los Angeles native and professional graffiti artist, hired five skywriters for an unlikely art installation and protest in the crisp, cloudless sky above downtown around noon Monday.

Out-of-control graffiti. A place with so much potential, yet so much desmadre. If someone tried this at Art Basel ... Angeles should not be an “open canvas [for] budding artists.” ...

became disillusioned with the graffiti scene and set up his own tattoo parlour as a way to continue making art. Now more likely to be seen exhibiting canvas work in a commercial gallery than ...

So I didn’t approach the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection in a spirit of fuzzy reminiscence or wowed appreci­ation of ...

Graffiti art has a long and storied history that stretches back to ancient civilizations, evolving from simple inscriptions ...