(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)Some acquaintances from Ireland were in town, and we were having lunch in their 20th-floor downtown hotel suite. The first graffiti art I ever saw here were the river cats, Leo Limon’s whimsical feline faces on the storm drain openings into the Los Angeles River . George Fry / Los Angeles Times Lynne Westmore Bloom poses with a sketch she used as a model for the Pink Lady. Gang graffiti, it turns out, is as much a danger to mural art as overzealous, underinformed civic enforcers. — of L.A.'s shopping mallsA fellow named Banksy changed some minds about graffiti art too.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 12, 2024 21:31 UTC