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CBS News
a day ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Pittsburgh artist speaks out after murals were found with racist, antisemitic graffiti
Hateful messages were recently found covering renowned Pittsburgh artist Kyle Holbrook's work. Holbrook now plans to take a stand against hate. Holbrook is known for his community murals. So far, he's completed over 800 murals and community art projects across 43 countries and 49 states. His murals are not just works of art, they're a piece of each community's heart. "Over 2,000 people from Oakland, students, teachers, faculty, we're able to help paint it, which was great," said Holbrook. He's currently a Pittsburgh resident, but Holbrook just finished a three-mural series in Oakland, California, about inclusion. He left Oakland to continue painting in other West Coast states, only to find out someone had painted racial and antisemetic graffiti on top of the mural. "(I was) really surprised. It hurts to see," said Holbrook. It wasn't the only one defaced in the past two weeks, though. Hateful images were seen covering a different mural of legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson. "That just happened in Miami. It's a mural that I painted in 2012 about the Negro League," Holbrook said. "The 'n word' right over his whole image. And a swastika as well. And for that same messaging to be on two different murals on two different sides of the country was alarming." It's coast-to-coast damage. "These are cowards who are doing it." Holbrook is recognized for his public art projects, promoting social justice; his work was even displayed in Paris during the 2024 Olympics. He told KDKA-TV that he won't be silenced, and his work won't stop after people vandalized it. "You can't erase history, you can't erase culture, you can't erase me," Holbrook said. Each piece displays vibrant colors, character, and inspiring words. It's a painted space for love, not hate, that he plans on bringing back. "Because good always wins, and hate can't win, and God is on the good side," said Holbrook. Holbrook said his next stop is Seattle, but he hopes to repaint the Miami mural eventually. In the meantime, the hate messages on the mural in Oakland, California, have already been painted over, and it'll be unveiled again in September.
BBC News
3 days ago
- Lifestyle
- BBC News
Painted murals transform Hull Green Corridor project
A cycle path in Hull has been transformed by people living in the area who have created a series of murals and planted shrubs to attract Green Corridor project covers the Stepney Cycle Path which runs between Duesbery Street and the former Stepney Lane Station off Beverley murals portray the history of the former railway connection to Hornsea as well more abstract Ballard, part of the Berkeley Street Neighbourhood Watch group which has worked on the revamp, said: "The artists have done a great job and it's amazing to see it all come together so people can benefit from it." He added: "There was a lot of anti-social behaviour and it wasn't seen as a nice place to go. The project is about people taking control of the areas where they live. The cycle path was created on the former railway line which ran to the coast at Hornsea until it was closed following the Beeching Report in the Ballard said the murals were created after people reminisced about "travelling on trains through the area on the way to the seaside".Six different artists were tasked with creating the colourful installations. Funding from the Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner was used to give training to younger artists to help with their creations. In addition to the murals, The Green Corridor scheme has supported the Hull Butterfly City project which has been running since 2019 to plant trees and shrubs to improve Ballard said: "Little things like putting in wild flowers and food plants are a simple way of improving habitats for wildlife."The fact we've been visible in picking up litter and trying to improve the area should make people feel more comfortable and make it a much nicer place to be." Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
CBS News
24-05-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Oakland muralist seeks to tell story of city's Chinatown with new works
Community leaders in Oakland's Chinatown are looking to paint a different image of their neighborhood, with the help of series of murals to add color to blank walls. "Art, it is so important for any community district," said Stephanie Tran, who serves as President of Oakland's Chinatown Chamber of Commerce (OCCC). "It helps build identity of the area, but it also helps tell the story of Chinatown as well." This year, the OCCC hopes to complete at least 10 murals in Chinatown that will include the work of Oakland native Sorell Raino-Tsui who is commissioned to paint two installations. "He is able to create art in a way that tells the story of Chinatown, and he helps to create a sense of belonging for the Asian community," Raino-Tsui told CBS News Bay Area. His latest project is a mural on the side of a mixed-use building at 10th and Harrison streets – a colorful giant Chinese antique vase painted in blue and surrounded by a mixture of floral designs. "The vase is the very traditional element. And then the other elements have more of my style, a more contemporary feel," said Raino-Tsui. "So, this is a real fusion of kind of like traditionalism and, and contemporary styling." Raino-Tsui's work as a muralist began in 2016, after quitting his job in finance to purse his passion as an artist. Today, you can find his work across the Bay Area, including several murals in San Francisco. During a recent tour of his work, he showed CBS News Bay Area a variety of murals including a massive installation in the Richmond District at 4200 Geary on the side of a senior housing development. "There is a lot of Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian residents in this area, so we wanted to design a piece that honored those three cultures and brought them together," he said. Other murals include a piece in the Sunnydale neighborhood that pays homage to the history of the community by featuring an iconic photograph taken by Barbara Bernstein, of kids sitting on top of the "The Bear" sculpture by artist Beniamino Bufano. "So, the kids on the bear is a famous photograph that was in the newspaper," said Raino-Tsui. "Residents told me that if you ever lived in Sunnydale, you sat on that bear. And so, it's a great ode to the past." Recently, he completed a giant mural near Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown for NBA All-Star weekend. Commissioned by the NBA, the work honors the Year of the Snake and the city's basketball culture. "So, it's a celebration of Chinese culture, the New Year and basketball, he said. "It is very important to me be able to authentically create works that symbolize the culture, but also have a contemporary twist on them." Raino-Tsui believes his work, and the work of other artists can help transform communities and neighborhoods. "Murals contribute a lot. I mean murals are art, and art is culture," he said. "It feels like a real personal blessing to work in my hometown and the Bay Area," His next mural project will begin later this year and will be located at the Shoong Family Chinese Cultural Center in Oakland's Chinatown.
CBS News
21-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Minnesota group working to preserve the movement sparked by George Floyd's murder
How murals will be a large part of the fifth annual Justice for George event How murals will be a large part of the fifth annual Justice for George event How murals will be a large part of the fifth annual Justice for George event There's a group that has worked hard to preserve plywood murals in Minnesota from the movement sparked by George Floyd's death. "Memorialize the Movement is an archive," said Leesa Kelly, the executive director of Memorialize the Movement. Kelly started collecting decorated plywood after the uprising. Once businesses re-opened and didn't know what to do with it, they'd give it to her. She would store them at a warehouse near East Lake Street in Minneapolis. "In the moment, in 2020, it was a trauma response. Seeing the murals gave me hope. They inspired me. They gave me strength," said Kelly. "The thought of them disappearing from history and just being discarded didn't sit well with me." Kelly and her team are preparing for their fifth annual "Justice for George" event. "It's an event for and by the community that gives people space to heal, reflect and learn," said Kelly. Kelly says there will be performances, vendors and more for Sunday in Phelps Field Park. The murals will also come alive once again. They will be placed on display for everyone. "The theme is radical joy," said Kelly. "We just wanted to remind people in the midst of chaos, joy can still be found." This year, they're planning events each day leading up to May 25. Starting with a mural walking tour on Wednesday, a reading with meaning on Thursday and more. "The movement doesn't end because 5 years has passed," said Kelly on the message she hopes to get across. In a 2018 research study by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Ithaka S+R, less than 4% of U.S. art museum curators are African-American.
BBC News
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Emanuel Livinoc's son 'moved' by Shoreditch murals
A series of spray-painted murals have been recreated by London-based street artist Abraham O from Paul Trevor's photographs to honour east London's portraits appear on a former Victorian textile warehouse at the corner of Cheshire Street in Shoreditch and document life in the East the seven murals is Jewish writer Emanuel Litvinov, whose portrait was completed on what would have been his 110th can be found near 110 Cheshire Street, the area where Litvinov grew up - his youngest son, Aaron, was "moved" when he saw the mural. Paul Trevor is a British photographer who is renowned for documenting life in the East End of London between the 1970s and 1990s, which can be found in his book In Your of artist Abraham O's close-up portraits are based on these images taken in the City and Brick Fisher, creative director of this project, emailed Trevor, who then selected these portraits, having looked at some of Abraham's work. Trevor believes the young girl in the fourth mural - based on a 1982 photograph - could still be alive and is asking anyone who may know her to come forward. 'Largest urban gallery' Abraham O said the reason he became a street artist is because the art form is "accessible for everybody, for rich [people and] for poor [people]". "I like the interaction that I leave with my art to the society," he says his focus for his art is on the eyes because they are "the windows to people's souls".Fisher and Abraham aim to create cohesion between people through these murals and "give the local community something that they feel proud of"."We're hoping that this might be the largest urban gallery," they told BBC London. "People both use and abuse spray paint. I think a lot of people would associate it [spray paint] with mindless vandalism and graffiti and then there's Abraham creating these extraordinary portraits using spray paint and hopefully there should be something inspiring there, particularly to the younger community, I would hope," Ms Fisher said.
