A graffiti ‘takeover’ roils downtown Los Angeles

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Historically, graffiti has often been used as protest art. While the practice dates back thousands of years, it’s most commonly viewed in a contemporary context (within graffiti’s “modern” era, which dates back to the 1960s and 70s) as a creative vehicle for challenging societal norms and inequities — whether on the Berlin Wall in Germany or subway cars in New York City; whether painted by anonymous artists or well-known figures like Keith Haring or Banksy, even if the latter is, technically, anonymous himself.

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