Muhammad has exhibited his graffiti-inspired artwork widely in the Chicago Cultural Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood ...

This summer, they hope to designate it a “free wall” space, where graffiti is encouraged — and hire its first-ever graffiti artist-in-residence to promote and teach the art form they feel is ...

The list of graffiti artists who have gained recognition in the contemporary art world is not a long one. Shepard Fairey, who designed the Obama “Hope” poster, and Jean-Michel Basquiat are two ...

A patron saw the beauty in graffiti when most of the world thought it was mere nuisance. Now the writing (of Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, Futura and others) is on the museum wall.

Along with the wall came an event space for an art show. Trigger Fingers debuted the event’s coordinated art show in 2023 at Umbrella Gallery. The white-walled art show polished the street art.

The history of contemporary graffiti art begins in the late ’60s and early ’70s in rough neighborhoods in Philadelphia and New York. Kids began simple name-tagging, and soon subway cars were ...

The Atlanta-based Hense (Alex Brewer) combines his graffiti roots with formal training in contemporary art to create large-scale, disorienting abstractions.

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 is free art — not commissioned or sanctioned — in public spaces. In the graffiti world, Philadelphia has a certain style. The city was declared the “Graffiti Capital of the World” in 1971 by ...

Barcelona's Prohibited Art Museum is hosting a debate that aims to examine the roots of graffiti and its path to being widely hailed now as one of the world's most important art forms.

As D.C.’s Department of Public Works tries to clean up graffiti off some city buildings, parts of the District embrace it as art.