In New York, bands of urchin-artisans took up Cornbread’s style—stick letters, tags—and made it an art form. Graffiti now adorns the walls of museums from Brooklyn to Berlin, and sells for ...

The alphabet ... predecessor in the graffiti at Wadi el-Hol, or “Valley of Terror,” a site along the Nile River on mainland Egypt. These were dated to roughly 1800 B.C. The inscriptions have yet to be ...

Another chapter titled Aleph-bets & Letters spotlights the full set of the Hebrew alphabet, variously interpreted ... showing Hebrew letters deployed in graffiti and as subjects within abstract ...

Little by little, he began to understand the meanings behind some of these messages. And, eventually, he started writing back. Illescas became a graffiti writer himself, for a time. He has since given ...

Donate now. Graffiti writing as a common form of street art makes a lot of sense in a place like Los Angeles. Long, frequent commutes make boulevards and freeways the ideal canvas for artists to ...

LOS ANGELES – Because gang graffiti isn’t going away anytime ... so they practice their writing styles and frequently change their names to whatever they think is cool. They will also change ...