SF News Oakland Museum Lays Off 15% of Staff, Plans Set To Reopen in June COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the Bay Area's dining and art scenes, claiming hundreds of restaurants and putting even more financial pressure on local culture hubs. Citing a massive loss of revenue, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) was recently forced to remove 20 full-time positions.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Cool Time-Lapse Shows Two Years Of Construction At SFMOMA It's been just over two years since the SFMOMA closed for a massive construction/remodeling/rebuilding project, and unless you count those pop-up events they've been doing here and there, SF has basically
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Diebenkorn At The De Young Out-of-towners and guide books like to euphemistically describe San Francisco as "colorful". By that they might mean perverse, strange, demented or just a little more intense than your typical stopover in Des Moines.
Arts & Entertainment [VIDEO] Watch The de Young's Flower Tower Go Up The de Young is paying tribute to local floral designers with their annual springtime mash-up of art and flowers. From March 19 to 23, the show features the work of more than 100
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reveals More Expansion Renderings Just heads up that, despite their vehement claims that they're truly not closing for three years, SFMOMA is really kinda closing the museum as we know it on June 2 in order to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Party with SFBG and Drag Queens for Cindy Sherman The SF Bay Guardian will join creative forces with SFMOMA for a rooftop party tonight marking the end of the Cindy Sherman show: "A toast to Cindy Sherman." Details? We have them. Boy,
Arts & Entertainment 1-2-3-4-5 Senses Working Overtime: Buddhist Science at the Exploratorium East meets West in a fascinating exhibit at the Exploratorium for just a few more days. "The World of Your Senses" delves into the surprising parallels in how traditional Buddhism and modern Western
Arts & Entertainment Kylie Minogue: Perfect Poster Girl For Jean Paul Gaultier At The DeYoung Who better to promote Jean Paul Gaultier's upcoming exhibit at the deYoung Mueseum than Kylie Minogue? No one, that's who. The pop icon's image, as seen above, will grace poster walls, lampposts, and
Arts & Entertainment Haight-Ashbury Museum of Psychedelic Art And History [Video] The Haight-Ashbury Museum of Psychedelic Art and History, a proposed museum that would focus on psychedelic art and Haight-Ashbury during the psychedelia movement of '60s. Supporters are trying to raise funds via IndieGoGo.
SF News Exploratorium Breaks Ground at Pier 15 At 10am this morning officials from the Exploratorium held a groundbreaking ceremony for the $300 million project which will transform Piers 15 and 17 on the northern waterfront into a state-of-the-art, 9-acre science
SF News Exploratorium Receives $90M Gift from Anonymous Donors Recently approved to start building a $175 million waterfront museum on Piers 15 and 17, the Exploratorium (the city's finest hands-on museum) just received a whopping $90 million donation care of two anonymous
Arts & Entertainment NSFV: Whole Steer Butchered at SFMOMA Event This is another NSFV (Not Safe for Vegans) post, so consider yourselves warned. SF Weekly food blogger Meredith Brody snapped the pic at right of a whole steer that spit roasted and then
Arts & Entertainment Presidio's Disney Family Museum to Open October 1 SF Citizen has word that the (controversial) Walt Disney Family Museum will open to the public on October 1. Some highlights you might find at museum? Glad you asked. The earliest known drawings
SF News Pez Panic at Peninsula Museum by Chris Jones Did you know that the Bay Area is home to one of three museums dedicated to Pez, the candy treat that tastes so neat and teaches kids that popping "dolls"
SF News Fisher Pulls Museum Out of the Presidio by Chris Jones Ah, what a shame. Don Fisher, founder of Geranimals for adults clothing chain, The Gap, has decided to take his fancy looking modern art collection and go home. Readers may
SF News Gunman Opens Fire at Holocaust Museum in Washington DC Scores of police are on the scene at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC after shots were fired inside the complex. According to early reports, two people were hit. A rifle might
SF News Revised Plans for the Presidio Released, Chron Sits on CAMP Plans While feather were ruffled at last year's Gap/Don Fisher/Presidio Museum/no bowling alley plan meeting thingy, this year things were a bit calmer. According to SFCItizen, the new plans for the
SF News Photo du Jour 170 Things got a wee bit heated at last night's Presidio Trust Public Board of Directors Meeting. The hot topic about was that art museum thingy we most likely never plan on visiting, but
misc Money Can't Buy You Love, But It'll Buy a Museum Although the Presidio Trust and park officials support the plan, the Presidio Historical Association is opposing the plan. Problems include traffic problems for the Presidio/Cow Hollow and not preserving the "feel" of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV First up is "Survivor," because nothing much happened in regards to Yau-Man this week. His team won the immunity challenge, and they went off to be their super-favorite selves for most of the
misc A Night at the Museum, Every Friday at the New de Young Check it out after work every Friday until March. A few more shots after the jump.
misc A Kennedyesque Inaugural Unda the Rotunda Gavin Newsom began his second term as mayor of San Francisco this morning in front of a huge crowd under the largest dome in the western hemisphere. (Yes, even larger than those found
misc But When is Spinster Appreciation Day? Anyway, next Sunday (the 13th) will see a bunch of museums and attractions offering free admission for kids who can prove that they live in SF. Some are pretty cool (the Musee Mechanique,
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