Isn’t that L.A. at its finest? That they used the medium of street art makes their work that much more Angeleno. The city has felt under siege from graffiti for decades. I used to estimate my ...

But such murals, often done by local graffiti artists who were themselves deeply rooted in the Chicano community, were forced to make room for “street art” in the context of neighborhood ...

Washington has long had a complicated relationship with graffiti and street art, which blanketed much of the city in the 1980s and 1990s and remains as much a part of that era’s enduring legacy ...

Unlike graffiti, murals, on the other hand, are seen more positive than graffiti, but both are forms of street art that can be used to send positive messages. Murals are often made bigger in scale to ...

But modern 'street art' is linked to the renegade graffiti boom of the 1960s and 70s in the United States, which then spread across the globe — absorbing and reflecting issues, styles and movements.