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Visual Arts

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Protesting in the Streets -- Top 10 Political Street Art

    John Boehner makes a cameo at 18th and Valencia.​We spotted this John Boehner street art gem Tuesday night in the Mission, and it got us thinking -- political street art is pretty rad, and sometimes pretty radical. San Francisco definitely has its fair share, but, of course, we're not the onl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2011

    Chicano Insight

    John Boehner makes a cameo at 18th and Valencia.​We spotted this John Boehner street art gem Tuesday night in the Mission, and it got us thinking -- political street art is pretty rad, and sometimes pretty radical. San Francisco definitely has its fair share, but, of course, we're not the onl ... More >>

  • Film

    August 4, 2010

    Film Showtimes for the week of August 4-10, 2010

    John Boehner makes a cameo at 18th and Valencia.​We spotted this John Boehner street art gem Tuesday night in the Mission, and it got us thinking -- political street art is pretty rad, and sometimes pretty radical. San Francisco definitely has its fair share, but, of course, we're not the onl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Emperor Norton Returns to San Francisco

    It took nearly 75 years for Peter Macchiarini -- and now his son, Danny -- to get this Emperor Norton sculpture built in San Francisco​"...There have been other Emperors in the history of this world of ours who have been out of their minds, their reigns were marked by violence and atrocity ... but ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 29, 2009

    Inspiration Name of Game

    It took nearly 75 years for Peter Macchiarini -- and now his son, Danny -- to get this Emperor Norton sculpture built in San Francisco​"...There have been other Emperors in the history of this world of ours who have been out of their minds, their reigns were marked by violence and atrocity ... but ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Mural Plural

    It took nearly 75 years for Peter Macchiarini -- and now his son, Danny -- to get this Emperor Norton sculpture built in San Francisco​"...There have been other Emperors in the history of this world of ours who have been out of their minds, their reigns were marked by violence and atrocity ... but ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2009

    Ins-doll-ation

    It took nearly 75 years for Peter Macchiarini -- and now his son, Danny -- to get this Emperor Norton sculpture built in San Francisco​"...There have been other Emperors in the history of this world of ours who have been out of their minds, their reigns were marked by violence and atrocity ... but ... More >>

  • News

    February 25, 2009

    Art Vandals

    Mural gets a paint job after city crew issues warning about graffiti.

  • Culture

    January 7, 2009

    Recent Editions

    Darren Waterston's prints are like visual haiku.

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2008

    He Has Visions

    Darren Waterston's prints are like visual haiku.

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    City Fee Increase for Street Artists Takes a Giant Leap Forward for Bureaucracy

    Darren Waterston's prints are like visual haiku.

  • Calendar

    January 23, 2008

    Bowled Over

    Darren Waterston's prints are like visual haiku.

  • Culture

    October 3, 2007

    'ApresGarde' Covers Lowbrow's Flank at Gallery 1988

    Darren Waterston's prints are like visual haiku.

  • Culture

    August 1, 2007

    Yumiko Kayukawa at the Shooting Gallery

    Wolves and tigers and otaku sex objects, oh my!

  • Calendar

    July 25, 2007

    Chris Felver

    Wolves and tigers and otaku sex objects, oh my!

  • Calendar

    November 22, 2006

    Super Size Art

    Kiefer commands the room

  • Culture

    October 26, 2005

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

    Kiefer commands the room

  • Culture

    August 31, 2005

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Culture

    July 27, 2005

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • 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

    Socialist Pop

    In Sui Jianguo's universe, Michelango and Mao speak the same language

  • Culture

    January 26, 2005

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Culture

    December 22, 2004

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Culture

    November 24, 2004

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibitions

  • News

    September 1, 2004

    Graffiti to Gallery

    Andrew Schoultz, the mural artist who's making it big in the gallery by refusing to leave the street behind

  • Calendar

    July 21, 2004

    Picture This

    At Photo San Francisco, four days of all things emulsified, exposed, and enlarged

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2004

    Snap, Crackle, Art

    SFMOMA's "Pop!" parachutes art out of its ivory tower and into the streets

  • News

    January 7, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, January 7, 2004

  • News

    July 23, 2003

    Hidden Treasure

    Half a century ago, ex-heroin dealer Alfredo Santos created an epic work of art inside San Quentin. Now, he's coming back to be honored for it.

  • Calendar

    November 27, 2002

    Saving Face

    Documenting the entire German population in the silver-print census of August Sander

  • News

    November 27, 2002

    Osama bin Laden dislikes kelloggs frosted mini wheats

    The gloriously unambitious world of John Patrick McKenzie, who doesn't care that he's a rising star in the visual arts. And who, as it happens, is autistic.

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Three Best Murals

    The gloriously unambitious world of John Patrick McKenzie, who doesn't care that he's a rising star in the visual arts. And who, as it happens, is autistic.

  • Film

    February 21, 2001

    Portrait of the Artist

    Dutiful if not particularly insightful, Pollock splatters the painter's life on the screen's canvas

  • Culture

    November 15, 2000

    The Magnificent Andersons

    Two local showings of an extensive collection provide an embarrassment of riches

  • News

    September 13, 2000

    Artjournalism

    Bruce Conner, the greatest artist you don't know, uses our Peter Byrne for image-honing purposes. We use Conner to get you to pick up the paper.

  • Calendar

    June 14, 2000

    The Great Haul of China

    The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology

  • Calendar

    May 31, 2000

    Hung Jury

    "Walker Evans" opens at SFMOMA

  • Music

    February 23, 2000

    Public Enema No. 2

    Bondage, fellatio, feces-swapping, and intimate cleansing at the S.F. Art Institute

  • Calendar

    February 24, 1999

    Gung Hay Fat Choy

    Bondage, fellatio, feces-swapping, and intimate cleansing at the S.F. Art Institute

  • Calendar

    September 30, 1998

    Checking In

    Bondage, fellatio, feces-swapping, and intimate cleansing at the S.F. Art Institute

  • Film

    October 22, 1997

    Zoom Lens

    Bondage, fellatio, feces-swapping, and intimate cleansing at the S.F. Art Institute

  • News

    April 23, 1997

    A Calder Balancing Act

    SFMOMA brass are going through hoops to keep cantankerous heirs of the sculptor happy

  • News

    March 12, 1997

    The Art of the Steal

    Harcourts Gallery was at the center of S.F.'s serious art scene for decades. Now, with serious money missing, the gallery's at the center of a criminal investigation.

  • News

    June 5, 1996

    Street of Dreams

    Balmy Alley continuously reinvents itself with murals

  • News

    May 29, 1996

    The Art of Discrimination

    Public art museums use legal loophole, deny benefits to domestic partners

  • News

    February 21, 1996

    Art for Art's Sake

    As the Asian Art Museum prepares to take over the Old Main Library, preservationists worry about the fate of the building's treasures

  • News

    October 4, 1995

    COLOR IT GONE

    Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

  • News

    August 9, 1995

    Chatterbox

    Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

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