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Police in Florida say a graffiti artist who apparently ran out of paint midway through a spray-painted creation left a note to potential critics to explain the unfinished work.
What may have been the largest single piece of graffiti in the nation is getting wiped out in Los Angeles.
A woman accused of tagging her way through Europe has been sentenced to six months in jail for spray-painting Queens subway cars over three years.
Palestinian activists climbed wooden ladders leaning against Israeli's West Bank separation barrier Friday and carefully spraypainted in English "My dear Palestinian brothers" — the first words of what they say will turn into a letter stretching over 1.6 miles long.
The North Carolina NAACP wants North Carolina State University to expel four students accused of painting racist messages about President-elect Obama on campus.
While other tourists were sightseeing in Europe this summer, Jim Clay Harper and Danielle Bremner spray-painted their way across the continent, police say.
One man got stabbed. Another got shot in the chest. A 6-year-old boy was temporarily blinded when he was spray-painted in the face.
Graffiti-style malt liquor ads are drawing fire from parents and anti-blight advocates in a city known for its colorful murals.
Graffiti artists come to New York City from all over the world to make their mark on subway cars, buildings and billboards. They spend hours surveying and then spray-painting hard-to-reach spaces with remarkable precision.
It was a graffiti artist's dream come true: 10,000 square feet of concrete and a permit to paint. Families brought their kids to watch as hundreds of muralists, using their own materials and working for free, sprayed technicolor shades on the steep banks of an ugly, manmade riverbed.
A German tourist caught spraying graffiti on the rocks and ice face of New Zealand's Franz Josef Glacier was forced to clean up his handiwork, local media reported Tuesday.
Using a can of spray paint, Yousef Nijim scrawled messages Tuesday across Israel's imposing West Bank separation barrier in protest of a wall that Palestinians say cuts them off from their fields and stifles trade.
Writing "I love Alex" on a school gymnasium wall brought a 12-year-old the same punishment as if she had made terrorist threats.
There's so much graffiti on a Milwaukee bridge it must be legal.
Pick a fight with graffiti artists and you can expect to see your name plastered around town.
A man who faces sentencing on graffiti violations now faces another accusation — that he tagged his jail cells, too.
The Arrest Of An Elderly Tagger Could Answer The Aged Question: 'Who Is John Scott?'The sheriff's department says he's the oldest tagger they've busted even though the suspect, a 74-year-old, is more of "snipe" marketer who's allegedly been plastering bumper stickers around town that read, "Who Is John Scott?"
Graffiti gangs chant: Knit one, purl two - thestar.comBringing various forms of art to public spaces has always had its share of detractors and supporters. No expressive medium, individually or combined, is exempt from varying degrees of scrutiny. Enter the new wave: graffiti tags presented in stitched format.
Graffiti vandal must pay for damages, a first in B.C.In what's being hailed as a B.C. legal first, Langford has won a court order to have a graffiti vandal pay for damages.
Part 2: The Costs of Graffiti and a Debate Over its ExistenceThe cost of wiping out graffiti from Bloomington is becoming more expensive for Bloomington city officials and local proprietors.
Part I: Bloomington Graffiti Writers Claim MisunderstandingDespite Bloomington's status as an art-focused community, graffiti writers say their sub-culture is misunderstood and branded a nuisance, rather than art. In the first of a two-part series, WFIU's Emily Loftis sought out graffiti writers to talk about their work.
Jaw-Dropping Works of Light Art & Photographic GraffitiA lone figure stands in an eerie green landscape with long beams of shimmering light seemingly emanating from his body. In another image, a neon-colored UFO spins above a muted creek at twilight.
Colorful Art Writers: 10 of the Best Graffiti ArtistsHumans have been expressing themselves by scrawling on walls since the earliest people lived in caves. But it wasn't until the 1970s that we started taking our messages to the walls, trains and sidewalks of urban environments around the world.
Graffiti thrives in NYC NEW YORK - ARTISTS usually crave light. Robert, 25, chose the dead of night. 'It's safer that way,' he said. Working on a rough Brooklyn street, he had only 10 minutes to paint before he fled, mistaking an approaching car for the police.
Making His Name by Writing It - NYTimesTeddy Ferrer, 28, is a graffiti writer and a tattoo artist who works at Tuff City, a Bronx shop that combines graffiti, tattooing and a music studio under one roof. Mr.
Banksy - Swindle Magazine The prolific U.K. graffiti artist Banksy will be having an exhibit in Los Angeles in September.
Graffiti yobs caught as they doodle their "tags" on school booksTWO graffiti yobs were caught by cops who matched their street-art "signatures" to doodles on their school books. The vandals had added their individual "tags" to spray paintings on walls at a local skateboard park.
Changing the Art on the White House Walls The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they'd like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House.
Altermodernism replaces Postmodernism - Declaration of Inauthenticity from the TateA manifesto on the current state of minds in the art world, this webcast from a recent Tate exhibition is a performance/statement with profound implications.
Palestinian graffiti spreads message of peacemblazoned on a long, tall, concrete barrier in the midst of a rocky Middle Eastern landscape is this spray-painted message: "Mirror, mirror on the wall. When will this senseless object fall?"
Conspiranoia film and television: paranoid cinema; conspiracy thrillers; unexplained mystery stories; treacherous TV series; movies to worry by.
Rochester draws the line on graffitiExcerpt: First came ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system that blankets six square miles of the city with audio sensors to detect and pinpoint gunfire so police can respond.
Graffiti artists to spray your tag on West Bank wallIt could turn out to be the world's longest graffiti space - the massive concrete barrier separating Israel from the Palestinians.
Perri Lewis goes guerilla knitting with Magda SayegIf you strolled down the Southbank in London on Friday, you may have noticed pieces of brightly coloured knitting tied to various objects, or perhaps your bike lock was covered with wool. Welcome to guerrilla knitting.
A computer poem- Stalking real ghosts beyond the crisp monitor, the ones that hang about in your personal dimension: like impulse and instinct, intuition or character.
News reports prompt suspects to blow up manholes in DraperTwo men are behind bars, and police are questioning four more after an explosion rocked a Draper neighborhood. Police responded to calls of an explosion near 1200 East and 12700 South around midnight.
Sweden train 'vandalised for art'Stockholm's transport authority (SL) has demanded compensation from an arts college after a student was involved in an act of vandalism on a metro train. SL Chairman Christer Wennerholm said the authority intended to seek 100,000 kronor ($11,500; £8,000) in damages.
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