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Campus Crime Logs: Feb. 15 – 21

Bailey Scott February 23, 2023
Incidents this week include a death investigation, larceny, a breaking-and-entering alarm, suspicious person, a hit-and-run and graffiti.
BUPD

Campus Crime Logs: Feb. 8 – 14

Bailey Scott February 16, 2023
Incidents this week include a narcotics investigation, harassment, unwanted person, indecent exposure, destruction of property, breaking and entering, a suspicious person, a hit pedestrian and defaced property.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: The Art of Banksy’s clumsy contradictions have much to teach us

Editors February 17, 2022
Something about a profit-driven exhibition for an artist so decidedly anti-establishment just feels unethical. 
Artwork by hip hop graffiti artist George “SEN-1” Morillo is being featured at the Galerie D’Orsay as part of “An Urban Conversation Paris + New York” through March. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Back Bay gallery opens its doors for New York artist SEN-1

Ramsey Khalifeh February 17, 2021
New York artist and graffiti legend George "SEN-1" Morillo's work is displayed in the newest Galerie D'Orsay exhibit alongside the greats as an example of revolutionary art.
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Graffiti should respect private property

Editors November 20, 2020
Graffiti and vandalism have a chance to grab people’s attention and prove a point. But defiling a piece of art that cannot be exactly replicated is counterproductive to whatever cause the vandal was hoping to achieve.
East to West: February 18, 2020

East to West: February 18, 2020

Justin Tang February 18, 2020

 This episode is also available on SoundCloud. In this episode of East to West, we cover graffiti vandalism incidents on campus, rising costs for living on campus, the MBTA’s extensive construction...

The Black Market pop-up store in Roxbury. Racist graffiti reading “White Lives Matter” was recently written on to the side of the store. PHOTO BY VIOLET GIDDINGS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Racially charged graffiti found on Dudley Square’s Black Market

Sarika Ram April 23, 2018
Kaidi Grant was outraged to find the words “White Lives Matter” sprayed onto the side of Black Market, her pop-up shop located in Roxbury’s Dudley Square. She and her husband, Chris Grant, noticed the scribbled words when they looked at the photos they took of the run-down wall of their weekend-only market featuring primarily black, local vendors.
PHOTO BY JENNI TODD/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Writing on the stall: a look inside BU’s most private public conversations

Jenni Todd March 14, 2018

In the 21st century, people have countless social media platforms to express their innermost thoughts and feelings to millions of other users. What they don’t have is true anonymity, with one exception...

Writer of racist slur apologizes to BU community

Andres Picon February 8, 2018

Residents of an 18th-floor suite at 33 Harry Agganis Way woke up on Monday morning to find a racist slur written on a whiteboard on their door. Following an investigation led by the Boston University Police...

Racist slur on students’ door spurs BUPD investigation

Andres Picon February 8, 2018

The Boston University Police Department is in the midst of an investigation after a student reported someone had written a racist slur on a whiteboard on their door Monday morning. The slur, which was...

“JACKED,” a graffiti art show presented by David Taylor (DS7) and Charles Win (Shread15) took place on Nov. 7 at Warehouse XI. PHOTO COURTESY OLIVIA NADEL

Graffiti makes cultural comeback at Somerville art show

Allegra Peelor November 12, 2015

One morning in April 2013, David Taylor, known as DS7, stopped by The Chelsea, a gallery that was hosting a solo show of his, to find nine of his paintings missing. Five of the paintings, which had been...

Campus Crime logs: March 12 – March 18

Anush Swaminathan March 19, 2015

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department from March 12 to March 18. Spray paint found outside Kilachand Hall Employees at Kilachand Hall at 91 Bay State Road reported...

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