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    Fighting Social Injustice Through Graffiti, and Making a Business of It

    BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Camilo Fidel López eats, drinks, thinks, sleeps and breathes graffiti. Where the average eye sees empty and drab building walls, Mr. López, the founder of the graffiti artists crew Vértigo Graffiti, sees blank canvases, opportunities to colorfully further the cause of social justice, whether in his home city — the Colombian capital, […] More

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    Racist and Anti-Semitic Graffiti Shock a Beachfront Oasis

    On the Friday evening before the final big weekend of summer, members of one of New York’s last private beach clubs, the Silver Gull in Queens, received an ominous email. The club’s playground would be closed, the manager wrote, “due to the recent and increasing incidence of vandalism from within the club.” Word soon spread […] More