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 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 ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- 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.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles is celebrating graffiti, but not on its own property. MOCA’s pyramid-topped headquarters on Grand Avenue is conspicuously tag-free. In ...

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 ...

Now he collaborates on art projects throughout L.A. From Illegal Graffiti To Commissioned Murals — The Hustle Of One Artist | LAist Support for LAist comes from ...

The owners of Oceanwide Plaza, an abandoned complex on South Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles, have until Feb. 17 to remove graffiti on the building and put up fencing around it.

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.