An abandoned Hollywood Hills mansion once occupied by squatters remains an eyesore for neighbors along Mulholland Drive. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) To many, it's ugly vandalism that blights ...

Taggers have sprayed graffiti on what appears to be about 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper that's been sitting dormant for several years. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) From a ...

The Heavens refers to a spot a graffiti writer has to climb in order to paint his piece. Graffiti prohibits no place for its artist to express themselves except for the graveyard and the church. Steve ...

With social media photo-sharing of Los Angeles graffiti going mainstream, some veterans in the local graffiti community remain lukewarm to the idea, which has taken on a life of its own with the ...

Some acquaintances from Ireland were in town, and we were having lunch in their 20th-floor downtown hotel suite. I was being an armchair tour guide — out the windows, there’s L.A. Live, and back ...

Taggers clambered over broken fencing and into a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper Thursday afternoon, brazenly adding their own handiwork to the graffiti already covering at least 27 floors of the ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Steve Grody knows graffiti. What he ...