People have been scribbling on walls as long as they have been building them. "Graffiti"—the word comes from the Italian verb graffiare, "to scratch"—covers a wide range of public inscriptions, from the early...

Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is often regarded by others as unsightly damage or unwanted...

When Tom Forster, manager of Chuck's Midtown Motors, showed up for work to find graffiti on the sign outside the business, he wasn't sure what to think. "Someone wrote obscene things about the services we perform here--and added a few extras," Forster...

Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Through Septembers American Graffiti Flashy talk, sparkling points of light, and personal logos Think of it as the Mt. Everest of curatorial challenges: to equally engage professionals and aficionados, in addition to their visiting...

Graffiti aficionados and gawkers alike gathered on Manhattan's 22nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues on Wednesday, August 24 where, from noon to dusk, some of the greatest graffiti artists to tag up a subway car showed off their skills. Twenty artists including Pink,...

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.But the messages Nijim writes are not his own. They come...

There is a difference between graffiti and vandalism, graffiti is art, vandalism is not art. However, graffiti as illegal art is now everywhere in Britain resulting in millions of pounds being spent on its removal. At an urban summit in 2002, Dr Kurt Iveson suggested that graffiti should be embraced in so much as it should be legalised in the form of giant, inner-city murals.