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Glasgow welcomes the world’s most famous graffiti artist, drawn to the city by the much-loved ‘Coneheid’ Duke of Wellington statue outside his exhibition.
In the last decade, some graffiti writers have moved from outlaw taggers to sought-after artists.
Living in cities filled with tags may make us feel less safe. But tags don’t mean crime and gangs. The real reasons people tag buildings and bridges are to show off and create community.
Art can help anchor places even as they are reshaped.
As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, a scholar of the culture and its musical genres explores the meaning of the word ‘dope.’
The artist who once declared “copyright is for losers” finds himself locked in a legal battle over use of his artwork.
Banksy has unveiled six new works in Ukraine, created on the walls of bombed buildings.
Phallic graffiti was more than just funny in Roman Britain.
These surfaces are of profound scientific, cultural, heritage, environmental, and aesthetic importance. Unfortunately, they are threatened - by graffiti.
From coronavirus to climate change and the Black Lives Matter movement, street artists expressed their views on the walls and in the parks and laneways of Australia in 2020.
Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ to be painted on a street near the White House. The act would have been considered vandalism had it not been done by city workers.
Street artists offer us momentary respite from the psychological weight of the global crisis.
Stories like the kind stored in this place, known as Telperion Shelter, provide history to a landscape and people.
The defacing of a new Banksy mural in Bristol has raised some interesting legal questions.
From crude drawing to advice and support, the scrawlings on toilet walls reveal differing communication patterns between the sexes
Forced into selling his own merchandise to stop others doing the same, the artist could end up facing other similar challenges because he trademarks rather than copyrights his artworks.
Visitors to these sites had one particular religious ritual that may strike some as strange: they carved graffiti in important and sacred places.
You’re as free to write anything in the sky as you are to post it on the internet, provided you have a plane, or a pilot willing to relay your message.
Take a fresh look at graffiti: even seemingly simple scribbles can hold political and social significance.
Top contributors
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City, University of London
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Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, York St John University
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Researcher in the Philosophy of Play, The University of Queensland
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL
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Professor of Design History, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Criminal Law, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia
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Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Screen and Cultural Studies, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Salem State University
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Social and Cultural Geographer, University College Dublin
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Lecturer in MA Creative Media Practice and BA(Hons) New Media Art, University of the West of Scotland
