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.
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.
Arts & Entertainment SF Art Institute Cleans House After Controversial Attempt to Sell Diego Rivera Mural The chair of the board and two vice-chairs have resigned after the city shot down their attempt to sell a Diego Rivera mural, and enrollment has dwindled to a measly 27 students.
Arts & Entertainment SF Art Institute Mulls Selling Diego Rivera Mural, Possibly to George Lucas A financial bind has the Art Institute considering selling off its prize mural for $50 million, and George Lucas is reportedly interested in buying.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Art Institute Saved, Maybe, For Another School Year The San Francisco Art Institute announced on Wednesday that it will be reopening its degree programs this fall, four months after announcing that it was shutting down permanently due to serious financial woes.
SF News Sound Art Installation Simulates the Sinking and Tilting of Millennium Tower A new piece of sound art installed at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) means to mimic and/or satirize the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, and the artists who created it say the piece will remain in place "until the building falls or the building is fixed."
Arts & Entertainment The Seven Most Haunted Places In The Bay Area With the news that Winchester Mystery House will host overnight stays and serve alcohol, we got goosebumps and decided to make a little inventory of the Bay Area’s most purportedly haunted locations
