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On April 1, 2011, Alex Brewer, also known as HENSE, and several other local Atlanta graffiti artists, were sued for $1 million by Atlanta neighborhood property owners. [19] However, shortly after HENSE and several artists countersued stating they had nothing to do with the work that they were being sued for. [ 20 ]
Local artist Peter Ferarri stated, "I think artists were upset that their work was being used to promote and sell tickets to this party without any compensation to them." [4] At 10pm on October 22, 2014, a hundred protesters gathered to paint over all of the art with grey paint, rendering the tunnel art-less for the masquerade. [5]
Forward Warrior is an annual live street art painting event founded by Atlanta Artist Peter Ferrari. In recent years, Forward Warrior has covered the walls along Wylie Street and Tennelle Street in Cabbagetown with dozens of works of street art. [9] Several of the murals created for Forward Warrior are mapped on the Atlanta Street Art Map. [10]
The colorful graffiti that adorns an abandoned skyscraper in downtown L.A. is, depending on who you ask, petty vandalism that plagues the city or vibrant street art that enriches.
Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti, consisting of the defacement of public spaces and buildings, remains a nuisance issue for cities. In America, graffiti was used as a form of expression by political activists, and also by gangs such as the Savage Skulls, La Familia, and Savage Nomads to mark territory.
Paint on the faux-brick sound walls along Interstate 440 is proving to be particularly hard to remove. Roadside graffiti is on the rise. On Raleigh’s Beltline, it poses a special challenge.
Legal walls or open walls, [1] are public spaces where graffiti is allowed by any member of the public. Legal walls started in Scandinavia, [1] and the first legal wall was likely the klotterplanket ("scribble board") in Stockholm which opened in 1968. The wall was repainted white every morning by a civil servant. [2]
“Now, we were a unique city, because in the '40s and '50s, when all of this was going on, we probably had more Black PhDs in Atlanta than anywhere else in the world,” Young said.