In 1992, Chicago banned the sale of spray paint to battle a growing infestation of graffiti. “Spray paint cans have become weapons of terror,” Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, said then. But this page scoffed ...

Martha Cooper remembers the moment she started seeing graffiti as something more than “a random act of vandalism.” It was in the late ’70s, when a young boy showed Cooper — then a New York Post ...

It started off with vandalistic origins, but over the last half century it has grown into one of the most legitimized and profitable art forms,” said an organizer of a $12,000 weekend spray-painting ...