Love it or hate it — pst, we love it — the new playground in Dolores Park got a wee bit of a makeover with some fun street art. Jeremy Novy painted some of his famous koi on the rubber matting. You like? He also drew some clouds and a line of ants, both of which are sure to delight the thong of kids playing in the park again. Mission Mission has more images for your enjoyment or disapproval, depending on which side of the street-art fence you sit. more ›

A prolific, yet apparently nameless, graffiti artist behind one of the few tags we actually kind of liked was busted doing his best Banksy-esque work recently. According to the folks at Uptown Almanac, the artist (or tagger, if you prefer) has been "terrorizing" a couple blocks around 19th and Guerrero for the past few months before a neighbor with a camera spotted him practicing his craft in broad daylight at a construction site near Dolores Park. more ›

Created by Gothamist cofounder and noted street art aficionado Jake Dobkin, GrafRank shows which graffiti artists are going up in San Francisco and Oakland, and which areas are popular for their work. The chart, complete with links to Flickr searches showcasing vandals cum artists, have rankings for... more ›

Ah, yes. Now, this is the kinda of graffiti we like: bold with a dash of guilt and a hint of self-awareness. Friend of SFist Pete Cat came across this gem while lollygagging in the city's Mission District Friday night. Some rapscallion wrote on a brick wall (a canvas notoriously difficult for building owners to erase), but left such a cheeky (and French, if we may say) spray of graffiti that one can't get that mad at it. Adorable, really. Adorable. more ›

When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David Choe, who, in lieu of payment, was given shares of Facebook after his work adorned the walls at the first Facebook headquarters back in 2005. According to Fast Company, "In 2005 Sean Parker commissioned Choe to paint more provocative art, in the form of graphic sexually-themed murals on the walls of Facebook's early Silicon Valley HQ, and in 2008 Mark Zuckerberg asked him to paint more restrained ones on the new HQ's walls." more ›

A United Airlines flight from SFO to Frankfurt, Germany needed to make an emergency stop in Chicago on Sunday. It seems that a crew member discovered a "sticker with a threatening message in a bathroom," so the plane was diverted as a precaution. After the plane was emptied and searched, wherein nothing dangerous uncovered, the flight then continued on to Germany. more ›

Allan Hough at Mission Mission broke some startling fashion marketing news today: Levi's made a return to Valencia Street to pimp "their Dockers brand via some ugly typography and a Facebook URL." What's more, they're doing it with nasty sidewalk graffiti. more ›

A threat of violence, via graffiti sprayed on a bathroom wall, prompted some classes cancelations at UC Santa Cruz today. According to Santa Cruz Sentinel, here's what happened: "On Jan. 11, UCSC administration announced in a campuswide e-mail that graffiti found in a men's bathroom in the Social Sciences 2 building contained a threat of violence to be carried out today." more ›

According to Valleywag, the identity of "Banksy," the artist(s) responsible for creating some of the most talked about "street art" in recent years, is up for sale. For how much, you ask? At least $3,000. (Or, better yet, you can buy it now for $25,000.) How one can verify such a claim is beyond us, but there you have it, folks. more ›

Mayor Gavin Newsom recently appointed a new, possibly sanity-estranged person to the graffiti task force in San Francisco. Her name is Paula Mulhall, a real estate who, according to C.W. Nevius, "jumps out of her Porsche with a paint roller and cleans up graffiti." Just how exactly did Mulhall turn into an anti-graffiti warrior? She explains to Nevius in her own words, ''I was raised in Indiana. And it was just this barren wasteland. We didn't have real beauty. So that's why this offends me." Well then. [Chron] more ›

Sure to ruffle quills come Christmas morning, Oakland artist Adam Infanticide's stickers have been seen on the streets of San Francisco (as well as New York and other fancypants European cities) and have "entertained, enlightened and offended" millions. Delightful. Now you too can slap a few of his witty, sticky gems across your neighborhood. Simply email woostercollective[at]gmail[dot]com your mailing address and he'll send you a load of hand-written stickers featuring such words to live by as "God bless our brave stockbrokers," "Please don't take this sticker down," and "God must be mad at you or something." more ›

This brave soul tags a wall in broad daylight -- presumably somewhere in the Mission, where street art is still relevant -- while getting caught in the lens of Mission Mission's Andrew Sarkarati. more ›

ART: Artist Mark Warren Jacques will exhibit a new series of work, I’m Here Now, which unveils a new direction in concept and theory in Jacques' work, inspired by his newly acquired love of San Francisco. more ›

"Broken Heart" by Keoki Seu. more ›

While we're not the most ardent fans of graffiti, we're huge fanboys of ATMs (they give us money!), and here we have one in Hayes Valley, which has been turned into a piece of (dare we say it) street art. more ›

Oh wow. An angry resident on Alamo Square spraypainted an open letter to a perturbed neighbor on the side of the former's house... more ›

Known, admitted Jewess Eve Batey of SF Appeal has word that the Jewish Community in the on Presidio Street fell victim to hate graffiti this week. "SFPD spokesperson Officer Boaz Mariles tells the Appeal that JCC security discovered what appears to be a swastika drawn in an alcove on the Presidio-facing side of the building at 3200 California Street. Mariles says the graffiti was about 3 inches by 5 inches, and appeared to have been drawn with a purple marker." more ›

"I Feel So Down" by Troy Holden. (Side note: this is downright gorgeous, people.) more ›

The Banksy pieces scattered throughout the city have been continually altered by other graffiti artists and taggers during the past week. more ›