Endless Canvas opens a 'Sistine Chapel' of graffiti art in Berkeley
Thousands turned out Saturday night, September 8, 2012 for the Endless Canvas graffiti warehouse opening in Berkeley, California. This underground event called Special Delivery Bay Area 2012, despite being covered by very few local press outlets, grew to be the most popular art event in the East Bay Saturday night. It featured street art from over 80 local graffiti artists who covered nearly every inch of a 36,000-square-foot warehouse with graffiti and street art. The organizers were surprised with the masses of people who showed up, posting on their website the day after: "we didn’t think that many people would show up." Perhaps the mystique of the event was heightened because the location of the warehouse was kept secret until the day before the event, leaving people to speculate about where the warehouse could be. There's nothing like secrecy, controversy, and rumors of art depicting illicit things to bring out thousands to an East Bay art event. What attende...
