Visual Arts

Pay to Paint: S.F. Street Artists' Perfect Circle of Fees

Let the Spirit Move You

City in Motion

Old World, Renewed

"Blek le Rat: 60/30": Street Art's Godfather on S.F., Banksy, and His Legacy

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 >>

Connoisseur Rat

​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 >>

A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy

​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 >>

In Which Our Writer Gets a Tiny Bit Testy

​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 >>

A Man of Letters

​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 >>

Blight Might Make Right

​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 >>

Godfather of street art Dan Witz hides his work in plain sight

​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 >>

Max Cole: "Terra Firma": Art Review

​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 >>

San Francisco Uses Its Good Credit To Bail Asian Art Museum Out Of Debt

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

Art Review: Alexis Manheim: "Oh, Golly: New Work"

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

The Architect Speaks

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

Meet the Guerrilla Artists

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

Been a Long Time, Been a Long Time

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

Fall Arts: Pacific Film Archive spotlights underground filmmakers

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

Paintings of Industry

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

David v. Goliath

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

Forever de Young: Masterworks from the d'Orsay still evoke strong emotions

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

High Five, Hirst

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

World's Best Hoarders

Money Rescue​The financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>

Ideal Location Found For Itinerant Fisher Collection -- At Its Current Gap, Inc. Site

Don't scream -- there's a perfectly sound place to put all Don Fisher's art: Where it already is.Kudos to the Chronicle's John King for today's scoop on Donald Fisher's decision to abandon his contentious plan to house his modern art collection at the Presidio National Park. "Doris and I will take s ... More >>

River Deep, Spectator High

Don't scream -- there's a perfectly sound place to put all Don Fisher's art: Where it already is.Kudos to the Chronicle's John King for today's scoop on Donald Fisher's decision to abandon his contentious plan to house his modern art collection at the Presidio National Park. "Doris and I will take s ... More >>

Jesus! Christian Artist's Company Stuck With $2.1 Million Legal Payout.

Thomas KinkadeThomas Kinkade, who created this nativity figure and boatloads of other 'inspirational' works of art, will now have to draw $2.1 million, according to a San Francisco courtArt critics worldwide are giggling malevolently as the company producing Thomas Kinkade's treacly religious artwor ... More >>

Herb & Dorothy

Thomas KinkadeThomas Kinkade, who created this nativity figure and boatloads of other 'inspirational' works of art, will now have to draw $2.1 million, according to a San Francisco courtArt critics worldwide are giggling malevolently as the company producing Thomas Kinkade's treacly religious artwor ... More >>

SF's Or, The Whale to Play at the Independent, Release Debut Album in Jan.

If you haven't heard of Or, The Whale yet, the month of January is set to change that. The SF-based indie-country-folksters' debut album, On Light Poles and Pines, releases on Jan. 20, and has been described as omnipotent, epic, and painfully reflective. If you like your thoughts wistful and your a ... More >>

Mmmm Cai?

If you haven't heard of Or, The Whale yet, the month of January is set to change that. The SF-based indie-country-folksters' debut album, On Light Poles and Pines, releases on Jan. 20, and has been described as omnipotent, epic, and painfully reflective. If you like your thoughts wistful and your a ... More >>

Weekend Art Opening: "You Only Excist Because of Us" at Giant Robot

If you haven't heard of Or, The Whale yet, the month of January is set to change that. The SF-based indie-country-folksters' debut album, On Light Poles and Pines, releases on Jan. 20, and has been described as omnipotent, epic, and painfully reflective. If you like your thoughts wistful and your a ... More >>

Neglected Treasures

A famed Mexican artist painted six murals for the 1939 World's Fair in S.F. One famously disappeared. The others have practically been ignored.

Portrait of a Capitalist

Take a close look at Don Fisher and his motivations for a Presidio museum

Who Shot the Serif?

Take a close look at Don Fisher and his motivations for a Presidio museum

Giant Bourgeois Spider Mounts San Francisco

Take a close look at Don Fisher and his motivations for a Presidio museum

New Republic won't run Ward Schumacker's illustration along with story about cussing

Take a close look at Don Fisher and his motivations for a Presidio museum

"Here's Looking At You"

Take a close look at Don Fisher and his motivations for a Presidio museum

Off the Wall

One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

Also Showing

One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

The Wall Have Eyes

One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

Also Showing

One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

There at Creation

A video art collector with an eye for emerging talent is now sharing

Galleries

A video art collector with an eye for emerging talent is now sharing

Writing His Future

Vulcan, the erstwhile king of spray can art, wants to leave the streets behind without losing his soul

Galleries and Museums

Vulcan, the erstwhile king of spray can art, wants to leave the streets behind without losing his soul

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Vulcan, the erstwhile king of spray can art, wants to leave the streets behind without losing his soul

Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

The painter, the landlord, and the $80,000 dispute over a life's work

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

The painter, the landlord, and the $80,000 dispute over a life's work

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

The painter, the landlord, and the $80,000 dispute over a life's work