Graffiti
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"—...
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Introduction.
A research project into the perceptions of graffiti by certain
individuals and groups can be seen as having grounding in both
sociology and criminology. The sociology of deviance and...
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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 t...
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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 a...
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Clark County and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce are calling on local businesses to help in the fight against graffiti.The county is expanding its “Targeting Area Graffiti” campaign l...
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Wellington (dpa) - Graffiti vandals or self-appointed wall artists
who use spray cans of paint to leave their mark on buildings, have
met their match in the New-Zealand inve...
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TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Black graffiti lauding
Saddam Hussein appeared overnight in his home town and small
groups of mourners turned out at his grave on Sunday, the first
anniversary of ...
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A Swiss man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for spray-painting graffiti over images of Thailand's revered king, the first conviction of a foreigner in at least a decade under strict Th...
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Dec 3 (Reuters) - British graffiti
artist Banksy is trying to bring cheer and boost tourism in
Bethlehem this Christmas with a series of subversive murals in
the town revered...
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At around noon on Tuesday, Geoffrey V. Raymond, a New York based portrait artist, showed up at One World Financial Center, the offices of Dow Jones, Inc., with a four-foot-tall painting of Rupert M...
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