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At first, it’s easy to miss the planters at the Actual Cafe in Oakland. On winter nights, warm wooden tables and chairs beckon frozen passers-by. Some leftover Christmas lights dangle by the windows. Bicycles hang suspended on the walls. The chalkboard in the bathroom displays curious bits of graffiti. A
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Oakland street artist Eddie Colla immediately felt compelled to act as he witnessed the Occupy movement unfold. Overwhelmed by outrage over the issues that emerged and by the passion of those participating, he found self-expression inevitable. In late September, Colla created a design that would appear in cities across the
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“The role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible,” screams the words of Oakland-based street artist and printmaker Paul Barron from his Art Attack Mural, painted on an otherwise nondescript wall in Rome, Italy. Barron, and others like him, are not only artists, but activists, people whose work are
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Tucked away in the folds of San Francisco’s Inner Richmond, there is a space station of sorts that will transport you into a science fiction world of the future. This past Friday, the recently fire-damaged Fecal Face Dot Gallery opened up a temporary new location for its shows. Inside, they
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In today’s age of point-and-shoot digital photography, it is easy to disregard the art form’s intimate reliance on light. Free from light meters, f-stops, and ISOs, few understand photography as the capture and manipulation of light, it’s fundamental form. “Sun Works,” a photography exhibit that opened at The Berkeley Art
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Colors erupting onto train cars and empty walls fill in his block letters, boldly pushing the words beyond the two-dimensional surface. This daring image identifies Optimist as the Bay Area-based tagger, painter, writer, graffiti artist. But last Saturday, October 8th, he tamed his after-hours wild style, moving his art indoors,
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A timid artist in black-rimmed glasses sits behind a too-high display case in a comic book store. An untouched stack of paperback comics sits shyly next to him as he tries to explain to the shop’s only customer that he’s not printing “floppies” because he wants to be different — he
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A barrage of shiny scissors hang from beneath a floating black umbrella, stabbing the space where one would hypothetically hide from the rain. This is the first thing that you see when you walk into Berkeley native Michele Pred’s art exhibit, “Confiscated.” The umbrella is one of nine pieces assembled
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Beginning in the 1960s, a singular institution in sound art composition and performance known as Audium has quietly made its home in San Francisco. offering patrons a uniquely immersive and affecting art space. Created by composer Stan Shaff in 1960, Audium is an exhibition space for Shaff’s sound sculptures, offering
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Fear is like this: Someone like a woman that you grab ahold of her hand and going down the escalator when of a sudden you happens to be holding a stranger hand not realizing that she isn’t your mother is scary.” This is just one of the many fears in
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