Graffiti and tattoos seem like total opposities. One is ephemeral, lasting only until it’s painted over by the city or other writers, the other is forever, or at least unless you decide to rip the ink ...

Artist Carlos Mare (aka Mare 139) explains graffiti in 12 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. Carlos explains everything from the simple tags and throwies to how he crafts a masterpiece using ...

Like a lot of little boys, Champ Styles wanted to be just like his dad. But that got a little complicated at times, because Such Styles was doing graffiti when Champ was born back in 1983. They’ve ...

According to lore, modern American graffiti began in the late nineteen-sixties, when a Philadelphia teen-ager named Darryl McCray started spray-painting his nickname, Cornbread, around the city, ...

For over four decades, Bronx-born artist Julius Cavero—better known as Tkid170—has been a defining force in the graffiti movement. Emerging from the early days of New York’s subway art scene, Tkid170 ...

There are many different, mostly negative, generalized stereotypes associated with graffiti art and its practitioners. Believe all graffiti is all about hip-hop? Think again. Point is that despite ...