Art Or Vandalism? A History Of New York Graffiti

Gregory J. Snyder's ''Graffiti Lives''

Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground

By Gregory J. Snyder (NYU, $24.95)

The day before the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, I attended the unveiling of Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama "HOPE" portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. As street artist-turned-pop icon Fairey addressed the crowd...

New weapon to fight graffiti vandals

The writing is on the wall in Glastonbury – but not for much longer.

There are plans for the town's walls to be repainted using anti-graffiti paint, meaning that in the future, vandalism can be simply washed off.

The paint will be used throughout the town, particularly in the alleyways leading to the High Street from St John's car park, where graffiti has been a big problem.

A group of town councillors had been going o...