Arts & Entertainment Local Crypto Mogul Buys That Banana Taped to a Wall for $6.2 Million If you need more evidence that the billionaires are not being taxed enough, SF cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun just paid $6.2 million for an art piece that is merely a banana duct taped to a wall, and says he is going to eat the banana live on the internet.
Arts & Entertainment Behold: The Social Network Tarots Forget the Hermit and the Three of Cups. You can get your tarot cards read with far more contemporary symbols of joy and dread: The Social Network Tarots. This appears, for now, just
Arts & Entertainment Graffiti Studio Can Teach You How To Paint On The Hall's Interior Walls The Hall, which shuttered just a few weeks ago, is currently slated for demolition early next year, but in the meantime, its developer is hoping to make some money on the empty space
Arts & Entertainment Clarion Alley Mural Project Turns 25: A Historical Primer The onslaught of gentrification has been blitzkrieging the Valencia Street Corridor for the better part of 30 years now, yet one little patch has always maintained the neigborhood’s old-school, punk-rock, outlaw roots.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Rainbow Light Installation Coming To Harvey Milk Plaza Next Month As the 40th anniversary of Harvey Milk's election to the Board of Supervisors approaches next month, local nonprofit Illuminate the folks behind the Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge and the Summer of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Civic Center Plaza Yarn-Bombed With Giraffes People voted for an animal theme for phase 2 of #knittingthecommons so the first 3 trees got a family of giraffes. These cuties have quickly become one our favorite yarn bombs! A post
Arts & Entertainment See A Few Branches From The Tree of Ténéré, Off Playa For This Weekend One of the highlights, art-wise, of this year's Burning Man was the three-story, LED-filled, climbable man-made tree called the Tree of Ténéré, which provided shade during the dust-filled days and glowing, colorful light
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hyperlapse Of Burning Man 2017 It's Labor Day, and for the Bay Area that means it's the traditional day of photos and videos beginning to stream in from Burning Man as Burners suddenly get access to robust wi-fi.
Arts & Entertainment Chicago Photographer Seeks SF Subjects He Took Random Portraits Of In 1973 44 years ago this month, photographer Jeff Cohen decided to invite random passersby into his Union Street studio in San Francisco, and he took their portraits, promising to mail them each a copy.
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA Installs Largest Painting In Its History Now hanging, as of Wednesday, in SFMOMA's Third Street atrium a.k.a. the museum's former main entrance is a monumental abstract painting by artist and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient Julie Mehretu that
SF News SF Art Dealer Selling Non-Existent Tiburon Home For $35 Million Art dealer and real estate developer Serge Sorokko, or as he should be known, model, writer and Russian goddess Tatiana Sorokko's husband, hopes to sell a prospective house in Tiburon for a whopping
SF News Conservative Street Artist Sabo Has Facebook Page Taken Down, Blames Anti-Zuckerberg Posters A street artist known for sensational, sometimes racist, and politically incorrect poster campaigns ridiculing everything from Black Lives Matter to Lena Dunham is blaming Mark Zuckerberg for being "thin-skinned" after his Facebook fan
Arts & Entertainment 'Portals' Art Installation Lets You Talk To Strangers Across The Globe Maybe you, too, have thought about what a shame it is that with all the tools technology has brought us, we remain connected mostly just to the familiar our own friends and family.
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Local Artist Paints La Croix Cans A La Warhol Well this is amusing. Eater points us to a new gallery show of local street artist fnnch (remember him?), called 9 Cans of La Croix. And yes, that's what it is: large paintings
Arts & Entertainment Nazi-Looted Painting May Return to California Family, Per Court Ruling In 1962, just four years after Lilly Cassirer received a settlement of $13,000 from the German government for a painting looted by the Nazis, she died. Cassirer, who was Jewish, fled Germany
Arts & Entertainment Replacement Banksy Rat Mural Pops Up At Red Vic, Was Not Done By Banksy In a defiant move that is totally in keeping with guerrilla muralist Banksy's MO, the mural of a rat that first appeared seven years ago on the side of The Red Victorian bed
Arts & Entertainment Catching Up With Five Surviving Members Of the Beat Generation In Northern California Writing for the Washington Post, writer Jeff Weiss has just done a moving and thorough job of tracking down five people in their 80s and 90s, all members of the Beat Generation who
SF News Half Of The Mexican Museum's Collection Is Potentially Inauthentic Or 'Insignificant' Founded by the late Peter Rodriguez, the Mexican Museum has been a part of San Francisco's cultural community since 1975. But as the museum has grown its collection into a body of Latino
Arts & Entertainment 'Tales Of The City' Is Coming Back, Via Netflix Reboot Cue the sound of angels. Something is finally going right. Are you sitting down? Variety has reported that Netflix is developing a 10-episode "present-day continuation of San Francisco author Armistead Maupin's Tales of
Arts & Entertainment Local Queer Filmmaker Leo Herrera Imagines A World In Which AIDS Never Killed Our 'Fathers' San Francisco-based filmmaker Leo Herrera has been at work over the last year on a film that explores a vision of a contemporary world in which AIDS never happened, a 59-year-old Keith Haring
Arts & Entertainment Photographer Michael Jang Watched The SF Punk Scene Blossom, And Now He's Selling Photos Of It For $20 Well respected SF-based photographer Michael Jang already has plenty of his work in museums, including the permanent collection of SFMOMA, and this year he's been pulling some work out of his own vault
SF News 22nd Street Fire Site Now 'Mission Memorial Frog Sanctuary'? The lot at 22nd and Mission Streets is a disaster area. It's the site of a fatal 2015 fire that displaced over 40 residents and several businesses. Three smaller, subsequent fires rendered the
Arts & Entertainment DeYoung Museum's 'Summer Of Love Experience' Opens, Dede Wilsey Declares 'I'm A Flower Child' Last Thursday night was the opening reception for the deYoung's exhibit The Summer of Love Experience, and the Chronicle's Leah Garchik was on hand to hear some introductory remarks by Dede Wilsey, the
Arts & Entertainment '94110', A Mission-Themed Web Series That Seems To Be An Art Piece, Debuts Pilot Remember when we caught wind of a proposed TV series a full two years ago called 94110, via a casting call for actors to play "six leading technology executives living, learning, and loving
SF News Text This Number, And SFMOMA Will Send You Images From Its Collection By Keyword A new image search function created by SFMOMA makes Google image search look like a service for philistines. Art enthusiasts with some free time on their hands and no one to text are
