If you think street art is confined to the hipster irony of Banksy stencils and Shepard Fairey wheatpastes, think again. There has long been a continuum of artists who use the urban environment to address political and social issues right out in the open where anyone can engage with them. Muralists and graffiti-writers put the Mission on the DIY art map in the 1970s with freewheeling interpretations of their respective forms — and all you have to do is take a stroll down Clarion or Balmy alleys to observe that the contemporary movement is still alive and kicking. Now that street art is familiar enough to the general public to get its own episode of The... More >>>