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prints
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
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paintings
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
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paintings
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
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sculpture
The KAWS hype machine is about to get even more blown out of proportion. In just a few weeks, as Americans sit couched and catatonic from our ample
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sculpture
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
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paintings
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
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sculpture
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)
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paintings
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
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paintings
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
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packaging
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
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