Local graffiti and ink art legend Mike Giant came to East Oakland for the inaugural show at Paco Excel’s new Manos de Oro gallery. Entitled Metaphorical Suicide (though
West Oakland’s 16th Street train station was designed by architect Jarvis Hunt, and it opened for business (101 years ago) in 1912. In its early days, the station
In general, I like graffiti-influenced fire extinguishers more than I like fire extinguisher graffiti. But I really do like this massive 3-story black cat by Moscow-based street artist 0331C. Check
I’ve held off on posting my photos from Barry McGee’s retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum until now because I was waiting for the words to come. Curators Lawrence
Last week (for one week only), a vacant 36,000 square foot, three-story warehouse in Berkeley became Special Delivery, a gigantic gallery for Bay Area graffiti art. The event
What could be a more appropriate way to follow posts like this and this than the image above from Fra.Biancoshock‘s “Heroes Never Die” series of street art (ish)
In the perennial pissing match that pits cities against each other toward a highly subjective judgment of which one is the best, I pose this question: Does YOUR
A few weeks ago, while in the area for the Detroit Beautification Project, graffiti artist, Sever, painted a mural depicting the death of street art. The parody shows a
Here’s further proof that any object can be customized and that France continues to win the “thinking outside the box” [see: graffiti on prosthetic legs] Design-on-Anything award. Fire
