Scott Hocking, “Shit” in “Bad Graffiti” (2012) (all images courtesy Black Dog Publishing) Who cares about bad graffiti or street art? The spray paint scrawls of ill-chosen tag names (“Piggy Nasty,” ...

ROANOKE, Va. – One Roanoke man is taking the initiative to clean up the streets, one piece of artwork at a time. Sky Kirk wants to create a different view for people to see when they drive down ...

Much has been made of the many wonderful examples of quality graffiti art that we have decorating Detroit. We had our own slideshow last week highlighting as much. But we also know that for every ...

For today's map, we analyzed NYC's 311 data for graffiti complaints by neighborhood. As you can see, the Lower East Side sticks out like a spray-painted thumb. Other neighborhoods that reported a lot ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A funny thing happened when a half-century-old Staten Island Railway car was earmarked for the scrap heap: it got defaced with graffiti. Staten Islanders traveling on Bay Street ...

Graffiti artists are creating “an issue and a problem” in downtown Middletown, said Jeff Payne, director of Downtown Middletown Inc. Over the last several weeks, Middletown business owners are waking ...

Last year, when the storied, now-defunct Tubs building was heading toward demolition, the property owner invited a bunch of street artists to use it for murals. Why not, he figured. The walls would be ...