Graffiti Archaeology News

S.F. anti-graffiti workers paint over the Valencia Art Wall I must have walked by this wall hundreds of times when I lived in the Mission in the early 2000s, but I rarely took photos of it.

Here’s something new!

Back in 2002, when Graffiti Archaeology was still just an idea and a shoebox full of photos, I didn’t know how the project would take shape.

Last weekend I got to attend the opening reception of a fantastic new exhibition put up by San Francisco’s Letterform Archive: Subscription to Mischief features a beautifully curated collection of photos, correspondence, and other ephemera from the dawn of

Thanks to the brilliant and benevolent creators of Ruffle.rs (the Rust-based Flash emulator), Graffiti Archaeology is now up and running again!

On December 31, 2020, Adobe officially stopped supporting the Flash Player, and for the first time (ahem, second time) since we launched in 2002, Graffiti Archaeology went dark.

UK-based stencil artist Mobstr noticed something odd about the way a wall in his neighborhood got buffed, so he decided to do a little psychological experiment, with hilarious results.

Sites of Respect from Cameron McAuliffe on Vimeo.

What would you do with a can of spraypaint that’s invisible by day, but glows under black light?

Photo by Robert Stolarik for The New York Times The slowly-unfolding tragedy in Queens just took a sudden turn for the worse.