The long-running bankruptcy sale of downtown Los Angeles' most spectacular eyesore drags on with no clear end in sight.

But L.A.’s graffiti culture is in the midst of a very loud and brash change. The traditional targets of taggers — walls, windows, street signs, lampposts, buses — remain their canvases.

Graffiti L.A. shows Steve Grody’s immense time and energy, as well as the commitment from the graffiti writers who grace the pages.

The colorful graffiti that adorns an abandoned skyscraper in downtown L.A. is, depending on who you ask, petty vandalism that plagues the city or vibrant street art that enriches.

Lee Quiñones has been making paintings in the studio for almost 40 years, but he always will be best known for graffiti.

With social media photo-sharing of Los Angeles graffiti going mainstream, some veterans in the local graffiti community remain lukewarm to the idea, which has taken on a life of its own with the ...

First, graffiti “writers,” as they prefer to be called, concern themselves with ceaseless self-promotion, unlike conventional street gangs, which pursue more serious forms of criminal activity.

The Israeli-American Council headquarters in Los Angeles was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti over the weekend. The LAPD ...