Downtown Los Angeles’s “Graffiti Towers” went from an opulent development for the mega-rich to a dream canvas for graffiti artists, a nightmare for local government, and a destination for tourists in ...

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Graphic artist Levi Ponce stands for a portrait with a mural he painted of photographer Estevan Oriol's "Danny Trejo, 2011" on Van Nuys Boulevard as part of a community beautification project on March ...

Near Santa Monica is a hidden World War II-era compound surrounded by a legend of dark magic. The abandoned site is now ...

Graffiti writing as a common form of street art makes a lot of sense in a place like Los Angeles. Long, frequent commutes make boulevards and freeways the ideal canvas for artists to get eyes on a ...

This fall, the California Surf Museum (CSM) and the Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) collectively celebrate the legacy of Southern California's surf and skate scene. Few collectives have done more to ...

Nearly 30 floors of three towers are covered with graffiti at the Oceanwide Plaza development, and their appeal to taggers may be increasing vandalism throughout downtown Los Angeles. All week, Los ...

Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have transformed ...

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles Police Monday were investigating a stunt carried out by a social media daredevil who walked a slack-line tightrope between the notorious downtown "graffiti towers." ...

Amid an uptick in antisemitic incidents, the Santa Monica Police Department is investigating multiple reports of antisemitic graffiti that have been found across the city in recent days, officials ...