The Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences was vandalized over the weekend, according to the University of California Police Department. Photo: Justin C. Campus police at the University of California, Berkeley, have arrested one man, and are seeking another, in connection with several instances of graffiti found Saturday, authorities said. According to police, […]
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Endless Canvas delivers unique experience to Berkeley
A juxtaposition of two artworks at “Special Delivery Bay Area,” a street art extravaganza in west Berkeley. Photo: Tracey Taylor A juxtaposition of two artworks at “Special Delivery Bay Area,” a street art extravaganza in west Berkeley. Photo: Tracey Taylor Take an abandoned 36,000 sq ft former ink factory with giant circular holes punched in […]
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Street art’s Endless Canvas makes good with community
Artwork in Special Delivery’s art show which drew an estimated 5,000 people to west Berkeley on Sept. 8. Photo: dyannaanfang The organizer of an underground graffiti show that attracted thousands of people to west Berkeley on Sept. 8 has helped ensure that tagging that appeared on many neighborhood buildings after the exhibition has been covered over. […]
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Berkeley buildings defaced after graffiti event
Tagging on the wall of 1360 Fifth Street, home to solar testing lab PVEL. Photo: Tracey Taylor Following an underground graffiti event that drew thousands of people to a vacant west Berkeley warehouse on Saturday, September 8, many buildings in the area were tagged leaving their owners and local residents dismayed. The event, called “Special […]
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In Berkeley, a campaign against graffiti, waged solo
A one-woman graffiti fighting army at work in Berkeley By Linda Hemmila Once upon a time, Jane Tierney went to art school, but now she tackles art of a different nature. Tierney is a one-woman graffiti fighting army. She regularly cleans fences and buildings around the Thousand Oaks neighborhood in Berkeley where she lives, and also […]
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Grafitti tour of west Berkeley
Daniel Timothy Wood, who is in digital advertising, had a few moments Thursday between his lunch at Vik’s Chaat Corner on Fourth Street (which he says is the best Indian place on the planet) and an appointment with a client in San Jose. So the Portland, Oregon resident and a few friends walked along the […]
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Dwight office building now a credit to the ‘hood
Why this picture of a plain office building on Dwight Way, you may ask? Well it’s precisely because the building is looking so unblemished that it warrants attention. In January we reported on the copious amounts of graffiti that had turned this corner building on Dwight and Fulton into an eyesore and a blight on the landscape (see […]
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Dwight offices: The case of the disappearing graffiti
We are happy to report that the owners of the office building on the corner of Dwight and Fulton have cleaned up their act — or at least they have cleaned up swathes of graffiti. When we wrote about this property on January 19, we described it as a “graffiti fest” as its walls and windows […]
