SF News SF Art Institute Will Live On After Finding a Buyer, and It’s That Group Led By Laurene Powell Jobs The San Francisco Art Institute looked done-for last year when it declared bankruptcy and was $10 million in debt, but it will now survive as an art institution, and its Diego Rivera mural is staying right where it is.
SF News SF Art Institute Could Be Saved as an Art School; Group Including Laurene Powell Jobs Looking to Buy It A group of deep-pocketed investors and arts patrons is reportedly lining up a bid to buy the bankrupt and shuttered SF Art Institute, a group including Laurene Powell Jobs, and they’d be keeping the famed Diego Rivera mural right where it is.
Arts & Entertainment 97-Year-Old San Francisco Art Institute Campus Hits the Market for Undisclosed Asking Price Could a different school step in and revive the historic San Francisco Art Institute campus on Chestnut Street? We shall now see, as the nearly century-old property has officially hit the market in a bankruptcy sale, for an unlisted sum.
SF News SF Art Institute Has Declared Bankruptcy, Looks Finished After 152 Years Saddled with $10 million in debt and with only 41 students currently enrolled, the San Francisco Art Institute has declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and the school appears to be liquidating all assets and calling it quits.
Arts & Entertainment After Deal With USF Falls Through, SF Art Institute Again Looks to Be Shutting Down The insolvent, 151-year-old San Francisco Art Institute once again looks to be out of options, after a merger deal brought by the University of San Francisco has fallen through.
SF News USF Announces Plans to Acquire and Merge With the Financially Troubled San Francisco Art Institute After several years of turmoil at the financially strapped San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), the University of San Francisco (USF) announced Tuesday that it has plans to acquire and merge with SFAI, bringing the art institute's degree programs under the USF umbrella.
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisors Move to Make Diego Rivera Mural a Landmark; SFAI Says 'Please Not Yet' The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to initiate a process to designate the famed Diego Rivera mural at the San Francisco Art Institute's Chestnut Street campus a city landmark, in order to prevent it from being sold and removed.
Arts & Entertainment Artist Rigo 23 To Unveil Leonard Peltier Statue in SF, Ceremony to be Livestreamed Rigo 23’s large-scale homage to long-jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier will be unveiled Friday for a six-month display in SF, after the FBI had the statue kicked out of Washington, DC.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco Art Institute To Lay Off Staff, Close Permanently Mayor Breed chastised San Franciscans for not maintaining proper distances when outside, one of the elderly patients at a Burlingame nursing home has died of COVID-19, and the San Francisco Art Institute says it likely is closing its doors for good after this year's graduation.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mark Mulroney Artist Mark Mulroney lives and makes art in Berkeley but hails from Dutton, PA. He came over to the Bay to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute and participate in an economy
Arts & Entertainment High Varnish Meticulously crafted as it was, we were ready to dismiss the horse as yet another nod to art star Maurizio Cattelan’s use of taxidermy in contemporary art, when we learned that A.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Casey Smith We like to think that SFist interviews with locals are like catching little glimpses in to parts of the city you don’t know as well. For today’s interview Casey Jex Smith
Arts & Entertainment Rivera in the City Killer ocean views and Diego Rivera? Sounds like a dreamy vacation in Mexico, no? Well, actually no. Climb up the hill above Bimbo's 365 Club to the San Francisco Art Institute, and you'll
