St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights unveiled a one-of-a-kind graffiti wall mural in its gymnasium on Thursday, becoming the first college in the nation to commission a graffiti artwork. The mural, ...

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These tourists see the writing on the wall. French art lovers are flocking to industrial Brooklyn in droves for quirky walking tours of warehouses sprayed with graffiti and street art. The niche ...

DOWNTOWN — LEGENDARY GRAFFITI ARTIST Al Díaz, co-creator of the SAMO© tag alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat, will be signing copies of two seminal books on street art on Thursday, May 29 from 6 – 8 p.m.

Bad news for graffiti artists - the DSNY says that since the beginning of the year, it's responded to over 3,000 311 calls to clean up graffiti citywide, with half of those occurring in Brooklyn.

We haven’t seen it for ourselves yet, but a tipster sent a note about spray paint graffiti all over the Masstransiscope art installation in the B/Q train subway tunnel just past Dekalb Avenue. She ...

Graffiti is back with a vengeance in Williamsburg, these photos from a tipster show. More than a decade ago, Williamsburg artists covered the area’s old warehouses with street art. These tags look a ...

The Bronx Documentary Center is now exhibiting a career retrospective of photographer Martha Cooper, who documented the emerging hip-hop, breakdance, and graffiti culture in the Bronx during the 1970s ...