The Marin Circle steps were decorated with chalk by kids attending the Westside Studio summer art camp. Photo: Deborah Durant The chalk drawings that covered the stairs leading to the Marin Circle on Tuesday; short poems and collages found tucked under windshield wipers on cars along Marin Avenue last week; the brightly colored string that […]
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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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Watch for new light installations in Berkeley
“Fly safe” light installation by Golsana Heshmati. Photos courtesy of the artist. “Fly safe” light installation by Golsana Heshmati. Photos courtesy of the artist. By Tina Zhu “I feel every minute of freedom here or in Spain,” said Golsana Heshmati, a lighting designer born and raised in Tehran, Iran. Golsana Heshmati recently moved from Spain to Berkeley […]
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Berkeley’s future art museum already a magnet for art
A certain white wall on Center Street is clearly proving very inviting for street artists on the hunt for a fresh canvas. The building on the corner of Center and Oxford, which will one day house the Berkeley Art Museum after it moves from its seismically unsafe home on Bancroft Way, has been used by a […]
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Street art watch: New images on Ashby shack
Now we have started, we can’t possibly stop. Over the past year or so we have been keeping track of the revolving exhibition of street art on the side of the old photo shack at Ashby and Telegraph. Earlier this month it was an Edvard Munch-like scene of nuclear armageddon. Before that we documented what […]
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Street art watch: New image at Ashby and Telegraph
As was mentioned earlier this week, the Berkeley street art scene can be hard to keep up with. And we’re only focusing on one spot. Berkeleysider “danfang”, author of What I Saw in Berkeley Today, posted the photo above of another image which was put up on the wall of the former photo lab at the corner […]
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Street art watch: horse overlaid on buffalo
We’ve kept a regular eye on the street art on the abandoned photo processing booth on the corner of Telegraph and Ashby (previous installments here and here). The latest work overlays a rather classically drawn horse on top of Jesse Hazelip‘s buffalo/airplane. (Hat tip Marc Rumminger)
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Street art watch: Buffalo’s back, this time in color
We’ve been keeping an eye on the rotating exhibition of street art that appears on the side of the abandoned photo processing shack on the corner of Ashby and Telegraph. Jesse Hazelip has had one of his signature buffalo-airplanes up there before. And now he’s back — this time he’s ditched the cool monochrome for a full-on […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: Exit Through the Gift Shop — a two-finger salute to craven art-world poseurs?
The less you know about Exit through the Gift Shop before you see it, the more you’ll appreciate it. Of course, if you go into the film expecting to learn anything about its purported subject, you’ll probably be bitterly disappointed. Directed by guerrilla artist Banksy, the film is, ostensibly, both a behind the scenes look […]
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Street art watch: And then there were three
We have reported before on the images that spring up on the side of buildings or on walls. The abandoned photo processing shack on the corner of Ashby and Telegraph seems to be particular draw for street artists — or should that be in the singular? First came Jesse Hazelip‘s buffalo-airplane — which is looking worse […]
