SF News Legion Of Honor, de Young Museums Hike Adult Ticket Prices By 50% While a move approved yesterday to increase ticket prices by 50 percent at two premiere San Francisco museums might be seen as something of an art heist, the de Young Museum and Legion
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Museum Of CA Opening First Mainstream Marijuana Exhibit In US While the only glass many Californians want between them and their marijuana might be in the form of a bong, museum patrons can soon see plenty of pot, presented behind glass like artwork
SF News Asian Art Museum To Add New Wing For 'Cutting Edge' Contemporary Art The Asian Art Museum, the Chronicle recalls, grew from a wing of the old deYoung in the '60s to its own full-fledged operation in the former San Francisco main library in 2003. And
SF News With New Shine, Old Mint Hosts Pop-Up History Museum San Francisco's Old Mint, est. 1854 for all that filthy Gold Rush lucre, hasn't been shiny and new in quite some time. Not since it closed in 1937 with the advent of the
Arts & Entertainment Step Inside The Almost, Not-Quite-Finished SFMOMA, Open Next May You know what they say: You can't rush art. Well, the new SFMOMA, which has closed the building for nearly three years in order to emerge as the largest museum in the Bay
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 10 Best Museums San Francisco is chock full of museums! Some are fantastic, not-to-be missed opportunities, and some are...less so. Here are our ten favorites, excerpted from 100 Things to do in San Francisco Before
SF News Middle Finger Raised To S.F., George Lucas Takes His $700 Million Museum To Chicago Billionaire filmmaker George Lucas, after a long and protracted effort to try to build a museum in San Francisco to house his collection of illustrations, graphic art, and movie memorabilia, has decided instead
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reveals New Grand Stair Design For Old Building Today SFMOMA unveiled some new designs from Snohetta, the architecture firm that designed their big new white addition that's just barely under construction, to reconfigure the main staircase in the original Third Street
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At SFMOMA... Major butt lift for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Here's a jarring view of the museum's backside taken today from inside the construction site.If you recall, SFMOMA closed in June
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Place To Bring The Kids In SF We here at SFist feel confident enough to tell you what to do with your little blessings. So much so that, notwithstanding day care centers, we have the top 10 spots to bring
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Opens At Contemporary Jewish Museum Today It's a red-letter day, folks, for today you no longer have to strain your eye muscles from all the eye rolling you do while walking down 24th Street. (We tease, sensitive Missionites!) Wise
Arts & Entertainment Long Lines At SFMOMA Before Museum Shuts Down Until 2016 [UPDATE] UPDATE 5:00 pm: Lines are gone. You have about one hour to hit the museum before it closes!! If you plan on getting into SFMOMA today before it closes at 6 pm
Arts & Entertainment Starting Today, SFMOMA Kicks Off Free 4-Day Countdown Celebration It's the end of SFMOMA as we know it, but the museum isn't going dark without first unleashing a four-day celebration of general revelry. Starting today at 10 a.m. and ending Sunday
SF News George Lucas Proposes Presidio Museum To Showcase His Stellar Collection You know that Sports Basement near Crissy Field? It's going to become a museum of visual storytelling, if George Lucas has his way. According to The Chronicle, the 68-year-old filmmaker (of Indiana Jones,
Arts & Entertainment Expect Lines To See 'Girl With A Pearl Earring' At DeYoung Starting this weekend, the DeYoung Museum becomes the exclusive West Coast venue for a tour of Dutch masters paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis at The Hague. The centerpiece of the exhibition
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters To Open Museum Restaurant? In an interview with Elle Decor—which we recommend for it is filled with revoltingly pretty homes and perfect lifestyles—Alice Waters says she might very well be involved with an impending restaurant
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Artist David Shrigley Draws an Elephant English artist David Shrigley is known best for crude, child-like drawings used to illustrate and comment on the absurdities of life. He's got a new exhibition on at the Yerba Buena Center for
SF News SFMOMA Neither Confirms Nor Denies Reports Of Three-Year Closure [Update] When the SFMOMA announced plans to expand last December, reporters rhapsodized over the renovation plans. One question went nearly unaddressed: though the Chron's John King noted in passing that the construction would require
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Matcha This Thursday, 10/27 Here's another chance to win a pair of tickets to the Asian Art Museum's fabulous Matcha event on Thursday, featuring New Indian cuisine. The fifth person to email us at [email protected]
Arts & Entertainment Academy of Sciences Debuts Shark Lagoon Cam The California Academy of Sciences launched its new Shark Lagoon Cam on Thursday, which features a lovely mix of Blacktip Reef sharks and Bamboo sharks, Cownose rays, Honeycomb rays, and Blue-spot stingrays, along
Arts & Entertainment Ye Olde Transit Porn This goes out to all of you who get clammy-palmed as soon as you see your favorite F-car rolling up to your stop. Oh Milano, you come on smooth with that designy orange
Arts & Entertainment The International Art Museum of America Opens Tomorrow Near 6th and Market, and We Still Don't Understand What It Is One of the stranger developments on the mid-Market scene of recent years -- and that is saying a lot! -- is this mysterious museum project at 1023-1025 Market Street (between 6th and 7th)
SF News SFMOMA Receives Major Works From Nine Leading Bay Area Collectors SFMOMA announced in a press release this afternoon that it has received an unprecedented number of promised gifts of art from nine leading Bay Area collectors as part of a donor-lead campaign to
SF News De Young Ranks Fifth In Attendance Let's face it, museums are dull. They're quiet, full of old photos and paintings, and demand an attention span that isn't rife with ADHD tendencies. The San Francisco's de Young Museum, however, is
SF News Buddhist Sect Soon to Ply Their Wares at Mid-Market 'Museum'? For some time now we've been following the progress of the amusingly titled Superb Art Museum of America, which remains papered over but with an impressive new, neo-classical facade at 1025 Market (between
