Graffiti. Is it street art? An alternative communication venue? Or simply defacement of private property? Whatever your perspective, graffiti has a long history and it is likely to stay with us.

Graffiti, or “style writing” as coined and preferred by the art form’s artists, has been a popular form of art for decades.

To Montana Rail Link employees who see the often-elaborate graffiti painted on boxcars roll by them in their train yard, it's a bit of both. "It's become more and more prevalent," said trainmaster Jim ...

Nearby resident Tom Pashos called the wall art "really trashy — gang stuff, subway graffiti, boxcar graffiti." Although the graffiti competition was supposed to get approval from the neighbors and ...