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Author and urban ethnographer Susan Phillips puts together an archive of images and historical analysis in her book The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti (Yale University Press, 2019 ...
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 ...
You don't have to look far in Los Angeles to find the work of creative minds. Here is the best graffiti and street art we've found on the streets of LA.
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 writers have teachers, codes of conduct and ethical standards. Not all of them are involved with gangs. Considered to be public art and beloved by commuters, LA freeways are decorated with ...
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 ...
One construction site in downtown Los Angeles has been tagged with graffiti so many times that leaders decided to fight back in a most unusual way: By using art. 24/7 Live Los Angeles Orange ...
The Los Angeles River—the concrete monster that snakes its way through the entire city—is a foundation in the development of graffiti, with dozens of miles of out-of-sight concrete.(You may ...
Los Angeles, a city once known as the mural capital of the world, issued a citywide mural moratorium in 2002 to crack down on the growing issue of outdoor advertising passing as street art. 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 ...
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.