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San Francisco Arts Commission

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    Graff City: New App Encourages Virtual Graffiti

    ​For those who've wanted to tag the walls of San Francisco with impunity, now's your time. The San Francisco Arts Commission and the Department of Public Works are launching a street-art graffiti app that lets anyone paint, spray, tag, etc on the walls of our fair city. However, it's done through ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Sex Worker Advocates Launch First Media Campaign -- on Muni

    ​When you consider the unsavory elements one encounters on Muni -- seeds, stabbings, sermons, and semen, -- an ad campaign advocating for prostitutes' rights is rather benign.Local sex worker activists have launched a media campaign aimed to educate the bus-riding populace that sex workers are pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Tom Otterness, Sculptor Who Killed Dog, Wins Art Contract for Central Subway Project

    Not necessarily a cat person ​Is art still subjective if it involves killing a dog?The Examiner gives us a not-so-uplifting story today about a Brooklyn sculptor who once shot and killed a dog for art's sake. While Tom Otterness is a well-known artist in the streets of New York, this slight fact s ... More >>

  • News

    June 15, 2011

    A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy

    Not necessarily a cat person ​Is art still subjective if it involves killing a dog?The Examiner gives us a not-so-uplifting story today about a Brooklyn sculptor who once shot and killed a dog for art's sake. While Tom Otterness is a well-known artist in the streets of New York, this slight fact s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 25, 2011

    Plate Glass and Concrete

    Not necessarily a cat person ​Is art still subjective if it involves killing a dog?The Examiner gives us a not-so-uplifting story today about a Brooklyn sculptor who once shot and killed a dog for art's sake. While Tom Otterness is a well-known artist in the streets of New York, this slight fact s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2011

    Who Do You Want to Be Today?

    Not necessarily a cat person ​Is art still subjective if it involves killing a dog?The Examiner gives us a not-so-uplifting story today about a Brooklyn sculptor who once shot and killed a dog for art's sake. While Tom Otterness is a well-known artist in the streets of New York, this slight fact s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    How Scary Will the New Transbay Transit Center Sculpture Be?

    Courtesy of Tim Hawkinson and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects​It's reasonable to expect that the transformation of the now-destroyed structure once known as San Francisco's Transbay Terminal into a glistening new hub for high-speed rail will be for the best. In its final years, the old Transbay Term ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2010

    Support the Arts - Get Stamped

    Courtesy of Tim Hawkinson and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects​It's reasonable to expect that the transformation of the now-destroyed structure once known as San Francisco's Transbay Terminal into a glistening new hub for high-speed rail will be for the best. In its final years, the old Transbay Term ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

    Dick JawsThe Mummies do double duty on Saturday night​Kowloon Walled City CD Release @ Annie's (Fri.) San Francisco sludgemasters Kowloon Walled City express sonic aggression with oppressive riffage. The rhythm section alone sounds massive enough to pave city streets, steamrolling by with elephant ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2009

    Art Trip

    Dick JawsThe Mummies do double duty on Saturday night​Kowloon Walled City CD Release @ Annie's (Fri.) San Francisco sludgemasters Kowloon Walled City express sonic aggression with oppressive riffage. The rhythm section alone sounds massive enough to pave city streets, steamrolling by with elephant ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2009

    Arts groups create new music opportunities in the Tenderloin

    Dick JawsThe Mummies do double duty on Saturday night​Kowloon Walled City CD Release @ Annie's (Fri.) San Francisco sludgemasters Kowloon Walled City express sonic aggression with oppressive riffage. The rhythm section alone sounds massive enough to pave city streets, steamrolling by with elephant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

    Free Panel Discussion on Hip-Hop Today

    Dick JawsThe Mummies do double duty on Saturday night​Kowloon Walled City CD Release @ Annie's (Fri.) San Francisco sludgemasters Kowloon Walled City express sonic aggression with oppressive riffage. The rhythm section alone sounds massive enough to pave city streets, steamrolling by with elephant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2008

    The High Price of Getting a Head: City Hall Busts Cost an Arm and a Leg

    Dick JawsThe Mummies do double duty on Saturday night​Kowloon Walled City CD Release @ Annie's (Fri.) San Francisco sludgemasters Kowloon Walled City express sonic aggression with oppressive riffage. The rhythm section alone sounds massive enough to pave city streets, steamrolling by with elephant ... More >>

  • Music

    January 2, 2008
  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Giant Bourgeois Spider Mounts San Francisco

    The Bay is looking up in 2008

  • News

    March 22, 2006

    Space, the Final Frontier

    The San Francisco art collective Rebar wants to redefine where we live, one gonzo project at a time

  • Culture

    June 29, 2005

    Art Beat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Culture

    May 25, 2005

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Culture

    April 27, 2005

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Culture

    March 30, 2005

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Culture

    January 26, 2005

    City Lights

    Capturing the Embarcadero at night and the 22 Fillmore all day long

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2003

    A Curious Betrothal

    Kick-ass Filipinas become Mail Order Brides

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Organ Failure

    An ambitious plan to relocate a historic pipe organ to the Embarcadero threatens nothing but sour notes

  • News

    June 28, 2000

    Matt Smith

    In a Galaxy Far Too Close to Home

  • News

    November 10, 1999

    Mister Sandman

    The Bay Area's most prolific beach artist steps forward after years of anonymity

  • Calendar

    September 17, 1997

    Slap Shots

    The Bay Area's most prolific beach artist steps forward after years of anonymity

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