Art

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Endbahnhof: Photographic Portraits of Berlin’s U-Bahn

A talk with Australian born Photographer Kate Seabrook about transit, typography, and the aesthetics of train stations.

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Evidence: Ai Weiwei in Berlin

Ai WeiWei’s largest show to date is currently on display in Berlin.

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Hecho en Oaxaca

The epic Hecho en Oaxaca exhibit brought work from twelve street artists from around the world to Oaxaca.

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Alejandro Santiago’s 2501 Migrantes

Oaxacan artist Alejandro Santiago, known for his massive 2501 Migrants project, passed away in July. Here’s some of his work.

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Family, Ritual, Dream States: New Oaxacan Photography

The work of two Oaxacan photographers explores creative memory and shamanic practice, at the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

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Not Yet Lost: Golden West and the Craft of Sign Painting

Golden West Signs in Berkeley keeps a vanishing craft alive.

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Polk Gulch Graffiti

Big letters, the undead, skulls, and street signs: Polk Gulch graffiti.

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It Hurts to Let You Go: Levi Pata at Kokoro Studio

Levi Pata’s solo debut at Kokoro Studio in San Francisco displays worldly inspiration along with elemental flow.

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Dystopian Rainbows

Tyler Bewley paints landscapes mostly: colorful and whimsical dystopias depicting industrial excess, collapse, and reinvention.

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Automatic Writing

Watz’s work, like other contemporary computer-generated art, can be both harshly geometric and strangely organic. This result comes from working with a language that’s similar, in some ways, to nature itself.