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Clean Vandals: Invisible Paint & Reverse Graffiti Artists Work in Gray Areas

The word "graffiti" usually conjures images of people with spray cans illegally making murals or jotting down tags using colorful paints. A lot artistic interventions use other tools and ...

Deciphering Cities: The Secret Languages of Utility Markings, Hobo Codes & Graffiti Tags

Most cities have so much in common that a generic "map of every city" can seem similarly familiar to people living in London, Paris, New York or another metropolis entirely. General types of ...

Beyond the Streets: Brooklyn Graffiti Exhibition Honors Early Law Breakers

In Brooklyn, the latest iteration of BEYOND THE STREETS lets visitors check out the work of more than 150 street artists from around the world. Curated by graffiti historian and “urban ...

Somnambulist Manifestos: 10 Graffitied Old Mattresses

Abandoned mattresses are a graffiti artist's dream: street-level billboards ideally placed to expose art and opinions to a society sleepwalking thru life. In De Nihilism They say nothing ...

Graffiti Glam: Surreal Scenes Transform a Baroque Dutch Building

Classical meets modern in a surreal mashup splashed all over the walls of the Thomas cafe in the Netherlands, the work of a duo of artists known as Studio Giftig. Highly in demand for their ...

Between the Lines: 3D Graffiti Artist Layers Letters to Form Punchy Phrases

Warping classical fonts into rich mural art, Peter Preffington (or: Pref) uses three-dimensional complexity to draw the eye to deceptively simple messages. A veteran street artist, ...

Riffin’ Large: MST3K Graffiti, Stickers & Stencils

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K for short) was a Nineties pop culture TV phenomenon that endures through graffiti, stickers, stencils and street art. Mystery Science Theater 3000 ...

Graffiti Artists Awarded $6.7M from Landlord Who Destroyed Their Work

Prior to 2013, a warehouse in Queens known as 5Pointz was a graffiti mecca packed with murals and other work by hundreds of artists, many of whom rented space inside the building. That is, until ...

Cellograffiti: Street Art Moves from Cities into the Woods on Plastic Wrap

Street art leaves the city and goes out into the woods in search of a new context without defacing nature thanks to a few massive rolls of clear engineering film. With Moscow-based artist Evgeny ...

Urban Miniatures: Graffiti-Tagged Architectural Model Features Gritty Detail

In a world of pristine and perfect model architecture, this replica of a locksmith in Taiwan boasts dirt, grime, graffiti and rickety structural details. Crafted by Joshua Smith ...

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