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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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Artists from Endless Canvas painted the walls of warehouse for the Saturday exhibit. (Jeff Capps/Senior Staff)

Massive underground graffiti exhibit in Berkeley draws thousands

An incredibly large underground graffiti show was held September 8 between 6 p.m. and midnight in the old, long-abandoned Flint Ink building in West Berkeley. The three-story warehouse’s new owner, Alan Varela, and the street art blog Endless Canvas organized the event, which featured works by over 80 local graffiti 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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Public art project positively depicts Occupy protesters

Twentyfourth Street was barren.  Two 25-foot photographs pasted on the side of the New Parkway Theater in Oakland were torn asunder.  Their faces incomplete, half-formed, had been disfigured by the rain, the tattered remnants swung idly to and fro, like paper pendulums signaling the apocalyptic end of an uproarious revolutionary Read More…