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The Brooklyn Museum should rethink of its hot new exhibits headed this way.

Now showing at Los Angeles' Geffen Contemporary museum: "the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art," an exhibition that reverently displays "installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists from the graffiti and street art community."

Translation: They're having wine and cheese parties surrounded by framed images of urban blight. They're giving the destruction of other people's property a ...

Mobile Application Will Offer Genuine Artwork and Music From Popular Graffiti Artists

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Graffiti Spray Can 2 will offer Artist Packs from graffiti artists Phetus, Cope2.

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 27, 2011

Elite Gudz, creative leaders in designing content for multi-media mobile, tablet and personal-use consoles, has announced the availability of "artist pack" add-ons for the upcoming release of Graffiti Spray Can 2. Each pack will include a downloadable artist-specific ...

A**** O****, 44, was arrested three times in March for spray-painting "Laroc" -- his tag -- on walls and buildings in downtown Manhattan.

He was sent to the Rikers Island jail on the third occasion, and so missed his chance to attend to the opening this month of "Art in the Streets," an exhibition of graffiti and street art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which includes works by O****.

"I went out to walk my dog, I brought a can with me -- I shouldn't have done it, I knew soon...

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:41 PM

This sounds familiar because almost the exact same thing happened a year and a half ago: Los Angeles-based street artist and graffiti writer Revok—whose work is all over New York City, as above—was arrested last week at LAX and, the L.A. Times reports, has been handed a 180-day jail sentence.

Like Space Invader last week (and Smear last month), Revok (real name J**** W*******) had been putting up new pieces around L.A. in connection ...

Hong Kong - Hong Kong police were on Thursday looking for a graffiti artist who has spray-painted an image of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on several pavements and footbridges in the city centre.

The series of stenciled images, which also include the words: 'Who's afraid of Ai Weiwei?' in English, were discovered by patrol officers Wednesday.

Police said the case has been classified as criminal damage.

Artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei has been held at an undisclosed location by Ch...

WALL CANVASSES: Works by British graffiti artist Banksy will feature in the Oi You! exhibition of urban art, to run in conjunction with the Nelson Arts Festival and the Rugby World Cup.

The work of one of the most famous and elusive street artists in the world, Banksy, and other top international urban artists will be on show in Nelson in spring as part of an exhibition coinciding with the Nelson Arts Festival and the Rugby World Cup.

Organiser George Shaw said he and his wife, Shannon, had bee...

HOUSTON - If you’ve ever wanted to tag along with a “tagger,” a new documentary film may fulfill that wish.

The preview of “Stick ‘Em Up!” packed them in, Thursday night, at the River Oaks Theatre.

The film’s initial single showing was expanded to three, to accommodate the crowd.

Director Alex Luster followed various graffiti artists as they did their thing all around Houston.

The documentary focuses on a relatively new form of criminal self-expression called “wheat pasting,” wh...

British singer Joss Stone is battling to save an iconic U.S. graffiti mecca after the owner announced plans to demolish it.

Street artists from all over the world have travelled to the 5 Pointz building in Long Island City, New York to spray-paint colourful images on the former factory's walls.

The property has become a well-known landmark, and Stone shot the promofor her 2007 single Tell Me 'Bout It there.

Please check out this link and sign the petition to save 5 Pointz... This is where I did ...

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles City Attorney's office is trying a new legal maneuver to try to stamp out graffiti - it's charging 10 graffiti writers with violating unfair competition laws because they're selling works on the strength of reputations built on vandalism.

Assistant City Attorney Anne Tremblay says these graffiti writers - all associated with the MTA tagging crew - have an unfair advantage over legitimate artists because they gained notoriety through crime.

Cristian Gheorghiu (gay-...

Community Affairs Officer Barbara Stevens reported to Historic City News that over the course of the past two months, the St. Augustine Police Department has successfully linked 18 year-old H***** P****** C**** to additional graffiti vandalism.

Historic City News local crime reporters first reported that on February 4, 2011, C**** was arrested and charged with 18 counts of vandalism. According to police, C**** painted the word “Duru” on property throughout the downtown area.

Now, police hav...

MIDTOWN — Graffiti artists will attempt to reclaim part of New York's urban landscape during a brand-new festival this weekend.DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

More than 30 artists will share their vibrant, often politically-charged murals at the now-defunct Donnell Library Center at 20 W. 53rd St. for "PANTHEON: A history of art from the streets of New York City, a retrospective street art exhibition," starting Saturday. 

The exhibit examines the growing world of street art and celebrates its past ...

Two juveniles were arrested on March 15 and charged with criminal damage to property for graffiti incidents in River Forest and Forest Park. Both admitted to being part of a larger social circle of graffiti artists that targets public property in the two villages, Oak Park, and surrounding areas.

The West Suburban Gang and Drug Enforcement (WEDGE) task force launched a mission to track down individuals tagging public property on March 14, after a number of new graffiti "tags" were discovered o...