Meanwhile, over the past decade or so, a concentration of cutting-edge galleries - featuring everything from SoCal's native lowbrow street and graffiti artists to Japanese pop-art imports - has reclaimed an industrial area on Culver's eastern edge, creating an arts district to rival New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.
It's on kind of shabby street of boarded windows and graffiti, the kind of street that if you drove onto this and didn't know what it was, you'd probably keep right on driving.
Yarn bombing, also known as guerrilla knitting, is a type of street art or graffiti using items made from yarn - whether knitted, crocheted, or made into pom-poms.
New York's recovery certainly started with a clampdown on anti-social behaviour graffiti writing, street drinking, turnstile jumping, and so on.
The owner of this particular wall, which is also a favored spot for other L.A. street artists, whitewashes the graffiti away every so often...
With an absentee landlord who never visits, nor even has a representative keep an eye on the place, a property on an otherwise clean and tidy street could be covered in unkempt weeds and graffiti or worse.
That first effort was self-consciously hip, a place to hang, chat and read about graffiti "art" and South African street styles.
The outdoor space is also an unofficial graffiti exhibition with two works by British street artist Banksy and local artists working on walls around the market.
Cairo has suddenly emerged as the street art capital of the region, and its graffiti scene one that primarily started with hastily scrawled slogans calling for the overthrow of the Mubarak regime has evolved into one characterized by well-crafted motifs, both aesthetic and politically provocative.
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There is more graffiti, and many streets no longer carry street signs.
Gabriel Schoenberg, CEO of Graffiti Tours New York, called Five Pointz one of the most significant street art establishments in the world.
Be sure to walk all the way to the back of the store, where an outdoor space is covered by ever-changing graffiti, curated by CINIK, a well-respected New York City street artist.
In our neighborhood there was no other graffiti to speak of in those days, just this, the remnants of the hieroglyphics of our simple street games.
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