Los Angeles has always had a contradictory relationship with graffiti and the street cultures that birthed it. The city spends more than $11 million painting over graffiti each year, according to ...

LOS ANGELES — Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise development.

Graffiti artists tag the exterior windows of a high-rise building, part of the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza complex in downtown Los Angeles, on February 1.

"It's a perfect depiction of Los Angeles – political corruption, real estate, 'crime' + LAPD, the people making beautiful art," it said in a statement on X. "The graffiti is beautiful. Seize the ...

Discover the history and controversies surrounding graffiti writing in Los Angeles. From hobo graffiti to political murals, learn how this form of street art has evolved. Support for LAist comes from ...

See over 200 of Gordon Matta-Clark’s photos, many of which have never been on display in public, from the earliest years of New York’s graffiti scene during this show at Beyond the Streets.

Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have moved ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise development.

Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have moved ...

(CNN) — Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have ...