Graffiti—and its role in cities—has spawned countless movies, museum exhibits, books. But what about its scrappier cousin, sticker art? In the 1980s and ’90s, “sticker bombing,” also known as ...

“Slaps” are usually a notorious form of graffiti, with artists taking advantage of stickers distributed free at post offices to prepare tags in advance to slap on stop signs, lamp posts, subway cars ...

WEST VALLEY CITY – Authorities in Utah’s second-biggest city say they are struggling to address a newer kind of graffiti. West Valley City police are citing a rise in so-called slap tags. The tags ...

Many Crescenta Valley residents may have already seen the new trend in graffiti called “slap tagging” as they pulled up to a stop sign or walked past one of the ubiquitous metal utility boxes. Various ...

James Lambert was on his way to work in February and saw some strange markings and what appeared to be stickers on several signs along Woodleaf Road. He took pictures and posted them to his Facebook ...

My interest in sticker bombing as a subculture grew from a conversation I had with one of my students in Seattle. She was about to apply for college, and while helping her with her application essay, ...

“WAKE UP!,” reads one of the stickers plastered among a sea of others at last April’s STUCK Adhesive Show at the Hangar Gallery. Although the black-on-white sticker is one of the least eccentric in ...

That makes a show like "Slap in the Face: A Tribute to Sticker and Graffiti Art" at San Francisco State University's Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery that much more of a rarity. Consider it one ...

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