SF News Some Anonymous Donor Just Gave $100 Million to Build Affordable Housing for Artists on Market Street We may be losing the McRoskey Mattress store at Market and Gough streets, but we’d be getting about 100 affordable housing units for artists in a slick new building, thanks to a cool $100 million from an anonymous benefactor.
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist Lampoons Empty Downtown Spaces By Covering Google Office Sign With Spirit Halloween Store Sign A San Francisco conceptual artist wanted to comment on the vast amount of empty real estate sitting unused in the city right now — while lots of people, including artists and the homeless, could be using it.
SF News Artist Tenants In Bernal Heights Warehouse Take Eviction Fight To Rent Board A group of eight artists are facing eviction from a live-work warehouse in Bernal Heights, and last week they brought their case to the SF Rent Board, which will now have to decide
SF News Have You Seen This Artist's Converted Metermaid Vehicle, Stolen Yesterday? Amos Goldbaum, the popular local line-drawer and muralist whose designs grace walls and T-shirts all the town over, can usually be seen out and about in his converted city vehicle. "It's a funny
Arts & Entertainment This Artist You've Never Heard of Is Livening Walls All Over SF by Renée Padgham You can’t miss him. He stands a foot above everyone, with sandy blonde hair, paint speckled jeans, and a calmness to his demeanor only acquired through years of intense
Arts & Entertainment Video: Utah Parks Officials Discuss Cleaning Up Artist Casey Nocket's Graffiti From Zion National Park While we await charges (and a possible arrest) in the case of 21-year-old self-proclaimed graffiti artist Casey Nocket, who was named last week as the "major suspect" by federal authorities in the vandalism
Arts & Entertainment Local Writer Launches Campaign For Non-Profit Artist Housing In San Francisco Fact: It used to be much cheaper to live in San Francisco. The eras of our city's greatest cultural output (say the 1940s to the 70s) were also eras when rent was relatively
Arts & Entertainment Benefits To Be Held For Alan Forbes, Noted Artist Attacked In The Lower Haight Alan Forbes—a famous poster artist who's created designs for Queens of the Stone Age, AFI, Graveyard, Jello Biafra, just to name a few—was attacked in the Lower Haight on October 21.
Arts & Entertainment Prince's Best Twitter Updates (Thus Far) In addition to a kicky new look, noted crooner Prince has also taken a shine to social media. Delightful. The typically technophobic singer made his Twitter debut Tuesday, tweeting from his band's account,
SF News Artists Use Salvaged Solyndra Stuff in Artwork, Cause Right-Wing Media to Go Ballistic Everyone knows conservatives hate art. They especially hate contemporary art that was funded by any source other than one's parents' old money, especially if that source is the NEA. Well, a couple of
Arts & Entertainment Sketch: Shioko's Trip To San Francisco Fresh off a trip to San Francisco, Los Angeles artist Shioko Anderson sketched this adorable drawing of her visit yesterday. We love all the little details, especially the little dog in the foreground
Arts & Entertainment Angry Artist Besmirches Cafe Royale Via Cartoon Flyers [Updated] There must be something in the air between artists and cafes these days. SFist spotted this flyer the other day, which was plastered on every block in the Tenderloin/Tendernob area. Apparently, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deemed 'Too Serious,' Ritual Coffee Bans Artist's Work In what could be seen as the continued Starbucks-ification of Valencia Street, brick-and-mortar coffee purveyors Ritual Coffee Roasters recently pulled the work of photographer Varese Layzer. It was considered "too serious" for the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Artist Meryl Pataky by Micke Tong Let’s Get Metaphysical; with artist Meryl Pataky. Light itself has an attraction. In darkness it gives us a sense of safety; in death it calls us home. As art,
Arts & Entertainment 'Whistler's Mother' Lands in SF The painting officially known as "Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother" (1871) by James MacNeill Whistler, which is the fourth most recognizable painted image in the world, landed in SF at
Arts & Entertainment 17th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, Tonight Through Sunday SFMOMA Artist Gallery's epic, four-and-a-half day-long 17th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale starts tonight with a special preview reception, for those wanting a leg up. You'll also have a chance to beat the weekend
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Joey DeRuy, Local Artist 32-year-old painter and friend of SFist Joey DeRuy has lived a lot of places before settling in San Francisco. In addition to pursuing a career in fine art painting, Mr. DeRuy takes classes
SF News Newsom to Artists: Show Us Your Stuff In an effort to cover up the blight of many, many vacant storefronts dotting San Francisco these days, Mayor Gavin Newsom has a somewhat decent idea. See, Newsom, according to SFGate, "wants local
misc SF Weekly Wants to Give You $2,500 Are you exceptional in the visual, performing, film/video/media, literary, or fashion arts? Yes? Well, then, SF Weekly is giving away $2,500 with their Masterminds program to someone like you. Why?
