“Make Art, Not War” Shepard Fairey Paints Town Red

For the next two days, artist Shepard Fairey and crew are turning a blank wall at Baller Hardware on Tracy and Hyperion into a mural, a (hopefully) permanent piece of statement art reading MAKE ART, NOT WAR Fairey is friends with Baller’s owners and buys supplies there which is how the mural came about. (Baller…
Andrew Schoultz: Ready to Take Over Los Angeles

As you drive east down Washington Boulevard, right before you hit Fairfax you might notice something different: Where there used to be a blank, brick wall there is now a sprawling, carefully detailed mural. The mural transforms the whole wall into a battlefield of sorts, large horses seeming to charge outside its boundaries carrying billowing…