Visual Art

Photography show unearths hope behind street art’s rough edges

‘Tunnel Vision: The Graffiti Tunnels of Eastbay’ features photos by Walter Yetman that explore graffiti art and the individuals behind it.
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‘Tunnel Vision: The Graffiti Tunnels of Eastbay’ features photos by Walter Yetman that explore graffiti art and the individuals behind it.

San Francisco’s Tenderloin is known for its bouts of insane creativity, its street art and its generally seedy drug scene. Reflecting this gritty, eerie and perfectly grimy subculture of the Tenderloin is SF-based Art Primo’s latest exhibit, “Tunnel Vision: The Graffiti Tunnels of Eastbay.” Read More…

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Tom Hanks Tuesday: Hanksy

There’s been a whole lot of art around lately. The wonderfully vibrant new Barry McGee exhibit just opened at BAM/PFA, the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens just installed a voluminous, though slightly controversial art piece comprised of glass tubes from Solyndra and I recently made a pile of dust near my Read More…

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Summer Rewind 2012

Reminiscing on this summer in the arts, we put together a mixtape of pop culture memories to look back on. Snoop Dogg became a lion: Excuse me while I light my Executive Branch spliff. Snoop Dogg is dead. But Jah has bestowed another blessing upon us. Snoop Lion has risen. Read More…