Los Angeles has always had a contradictory relationship with graffiti and the street cultures that birthed it. The city spends more than $11 million painting over graffiti each year, according to ...

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 moved ...

I’ve studied graffiti in Los Angeles for 30 years. During the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, people wrote such phrases as “Black Power,” “Bloods and Crips Together Tonight” and “This Is ...

Item 1 of 4 A worker removes graffiti from a sign, as protests against immigration sweeps continue, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 9, 2025. REUTERS/David Ryder ...

Friday's immigration operations which took place across Los Angeles, primarily in the Westlake District, downtown, and South L.A., led to protests over the weekend, resulting in 42 arrests. Those ...

If you've noticed a lot of graffiti on city streets between the Westside and downtown, you're not alone. The Los Angeles Office of Community Beautification reports that the number of requests from ...

CBS News Los Angeles Live. A towering Los Angeles building that became a viral sensation after being covered in graffiti is about to go up for sale. The Oceanwide Plaza mixed-use buildings sits ...

The owners of Oceanwide Plaza, an abandoned complex on South Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles, have until Feb. 17 to remove graffiti on the building and put up fencing around it.

Graffiti artists tag the exterior windows of a high-rise building, part of the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza complex in downtown Los Angeles, on February 1.

“They can erase the graffiti on buildings, but they can never erase the impact that it has on the city of Los Angeles and the world,” he said. “There’s a lot to it. Yes, it’s vandalism.

Graffiti artists tag the exterior windows of a high-rise building, part of the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza complex in downtown Los Angeles, on February 1.