street art
Graffiti Artists Take Their Work “Beyond the Streets” in LA
Following the iconic graffiti and street artists who went on to create studio art, trading spray cans for canvases, moving their art from garage doors to galleries.
Mission Mural Unveiling “Corazon de Campesinos”
Artist Alberto Ybarra is a native San Franciscan and an artist you should know. You may recognize his work from the illustration series he did depicting a changing Mission neighborhood: See more of Old Mission Vs. New Mission series here. Now Ybarra has collaborated with The Mission Community Market on a new outdoor mural on
The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!
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The Reason There Are Honey Bears All Over the SOMA
You may have noticed walking to work this week that there are hundreds of honey bears hung on lampposts throughout the SOMA district of San Francisco. What are they doing there? They’re a mixture of guerrilla marketing, street art, and social subversion. The artist and his gang of conspirators didn’t
Hidden East Bay Wonders: The Albany Bulb
Hidden East Bay Wonders brings you everything weird, whimsical and wonderful in the East Bay. This time, we bring you the Albany Bulb. Jutting into the waters of the San Francisco Bay, what began in 1963 as a massive landfill for construction debris and trash is today one of California’s
Is There a ‘Banksy Imposter’ in San Francisco?
We compared Banksy’s original 2010 ‘Haight Street Rat’ with the new July 5th 2017 rat, as well as reached out to several renowned street artists to get the scoop
Someone is Putting Googly Eyes on Statues in Golden Gate Park
While out wandering around Golden Gate Park with my friend Kayla the other afternoon I came across a brilliant little art project. Somebody is putting googly eyes on statues in the park and it is absolutely incredible. The first one we found was in the Shakespeare Garden. Walking into the
The Power & Politics In Bogotá’s Street Art Scene
I have been writing my name on shit since I was in high school. Nothing particularly inspired, mostly text but sometimes I do some stencil work. By and large I tend to identify as a garden variety vandal, not an artist. My awkward fumbling in the world of graffiti grant
Artists Decking Out Famous San Francisco Locations with 3D Mistletoe
Jes Voight and Kassandra Z want you to make out. They also like making things. That’s why they’ve gone around San Francisco and decked the out famous locations with 3D mistletoe, calling the project #urbanmistletoe. When I asked Jess about why they were doing it she said “This is street art intended to spread