French artists allegedly vandalized LA buildings

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police are looking for two French citizens suspected of vandalizing a downtown office building near where a groundbreaking graffiti art exhibit will open on Sunday.
Officer Jack Richter tells the Los Angeles Times that city authorities detained the two men on a fire escape Friday morning. They were released at the scene but police still want to talk to them. Police

San Jose giraffe graffiti artist to pay $38,000 restitution

San Francisco resident Steven Free (a 32-year-old man), known on the street as "Girafa", will pay the city and local property owners $38,000, a judge has ruled.
He will also serve three years' probation after pleading guilty to two felony counts of vandalism and a pair of misdemeanor vandalism charges, San Jose police said Thursday.
The restitution will pay back the city and private property

Tsunami 2 - Graffiti live action Metro Barcelona

Extract from the DVD Tsunami 2.
Barcelona, Spain (2008-2009)

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MOCA’s ‘Art in the Streets’ displays works of graffiti

Graffiti art has moved from the streets and onto an exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles.
Art in the Streets opened on April 17 at the Geffen Contemporary, and includes artworks by 50 world-known artists from the graffiti and street art community (like Fab 5 Freddy from New York, Margaret Kilgallen from San Francisco,

Blu - new mural in Krakow (Poland)

The photos of the new work by Blu, in Krakow (Poland).


























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Banksy produces 'souvenir' poster of Bristol riots

The image was described on Banksy's website as a "fine commemorative souvenir poster"

Banksy has created a new image depicting a Tesco Value petrol bomb in the wake of riots in the city.




Last month, police raided a squat opposite the Tesco store saying they had intelligence that petrol bombs were being made there.



That led to a large protest in the early hours of 22 April and was

Tagger vandalizes Little Tokyo Gold Line station

A tagger has vandalized the Little Tokyo Gold Line station across from the "Art in the Streets" exhibit at the Geffen Contemporary museum.
Workers from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority quickly painted over the graffiti, which appeared over the last several days.
Dozens of tags, including monikers and larger "bombs" turned up on several commercial buildings behind 1st Street, as well