The early 1970s saw the growth of graffiti in a way that only its pioneers can explain. Classic Hits, the most visual book documenting this time period of graffiti art, tells the story from the view ...

The origin of the term "graffiti" can be traced back to the Greek word “graphein,” meaning "to write," and the Italian word graffito, meaning "a scratch." In ancient times, graffiti was often carved ...

If you’re nostalgic for the bad old days of graffiti-coated subway stations, visit the No. 1 train stop at W. 191st St. in upper Manhattan. A 900-foot pedestrian tunnel leading from the platforms ...

Artist Tad Kline has been on both sides of the track, in the most literal sense of the phrase. In the 1970s, Kline worked as a brakeman on the Colorado and Southern Railroad Road (now the BNSF), ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- In torn jeans and saddled with a black backpack, Andrew Witten glances up and down the street for police. The 51-year-old then whips out a black marker scribbles "Zephyr" on a wall ...

Graffiti artists have turned a subway station in Brooklyn into a 1970s throwback, painting massive tags along the walls in bright blue, yellow and red. The graffiti was first noticed by commuters and ...

In the storied histories of New York’s art scenes, the early years of graffiti have a magical sheen. They’ve been romanticized and cinematized so much that it’s hard to imagine what they were actually ...

A new show at Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the origins and development of street art. What began in the 1970s with ...

NEW YORK — Graffiti has been governed by one rule ever since it exploded in the Bronx in the 1970s: If you paint over another artist’s work, what comes next must be better than what stood before. In ...

The ten-car subway train was adorned at the end of June in a tunnel in Queens. The artists appeared to use paint rollers to cover it along one side, from top to bottom, in an awful shade of pink ...

NEW YORK (AP) - In torn jeans and saddled with a black backpack, Andrew Witten glances up and down the street for police. The 51-year-old then whips out a black marker scribbles "Zephyr" on a wall ...