Falkner—known in the art world as Smash137—is a graffiti artist. Although Falkner has exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, he is known for his outdoor paintings.

Roger Gastman, who co-organized MOCA's 2011 "Art in the Streets" show, brings "Beyond the Streets" to L.A. The immersive exhibition, opening May 6, is meant to revisit the changing culture around ...

Didactics offer background on artists who were foundational to graffiti’s development as an art form, but didn’t become art world figures.

A lifelong art enthusiast and classically-trained artist with a quasi-graffiti background, Slobodien studied at Monserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts.

A painting called "Buff," by an artist who's known simply as "Lee," would sell for something like $90,000 -- quite a step up from his graffiti roots, when he was writing on the wall for free. Rita ...

Make, an old-school graffiti artist who in 2000 created the first Russian graffiti crew, RUS, says that street art is important because it can show the local population’s own, uncensored voice ...

The 1980s were then rich with graffiti art, and it’s hard not to imagine the streets and subways just reeking of paint fumes seeing photographs of the city dripping with tags.

Sacha Jenkins, left, co-curated the graffiti exhibit, “Write of Passage,” which opened in New York in October. Photos by Robert Adam Mayer/Red Bull Content Pool Armed with magic markers on a ...

As the presence of graffiti art spread across New York City and beyond, so did its cultural imprint, leading to what’s viewed as the first movie about hip-hop culture – 1983’s “Wild Style.” ...

Street art once found primarily in subways and abandoned spaces is now an art form zooming to stardom. Today, graffiti and street artists are often commissioned to create works that can be found ...

And here’s a “Graffiti Fun Art” lesson plan that suggests that K-6 teachers: Encourage students to design a personal and stylized signature or [graffiti] ‘tag.’ ...