Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Special Delivery's Massive Street Art Museum Endless Canvas' warehouse-turned-graffiti gallery opened last weekend and the hordes of street art aficionados and photographers we on hand at the Carbon Warehouse (formerly the Flint Ink factory) at 4th and Gilman in
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Special Delivery's Massive Graffiti Museum We mentioned it last week, but now that the location and details of Endless Canvas' 36,000-square-foot ad hoc street art museum have been revealed, the event will make a rad addition to
Arts & Entertainment Abandoned Warehouse To Temporarily Become 36,000-Square-Foot Graffiti Museum On September 8th, West Coast graffiti blog Endless Canvas will unveil Special Delivery, a massive mural exhibition showcasing the work of over 80 of the most prolific local street artists in a three
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Photog On At Street Art Photowalk In The Mission This Saturday Do you like taking pics of bitchin' street art? Or people? Or anything that fancies your eye? Then, please, join Flickr and a group of local photos for the Mission Street Art Photowalk
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Dolores Park's New Playground Peppered With Beautiful Street Art Love it or hate it — pst, we love it — the new playground in Dolores Park got a wee bit of a makeover with some fun street art. Jeremy Novy painted some of his
Arts & Entertainment Video: Prolific S.F. Graffiti Artist Arrest Caught On Tape By Amateur Documentarian A prolific, yet apparently nameless, graffiti artist behind one of the few tags we actually kind of liked was busted doing his best Banksy-esque work recently. According to the folks at Uptown Almanac,
Arts & Entertainment GrafRank Ranks Global Graffiti Statistics In SF And Oakland... And Beyond! Created by Gothamist cofounder and noted street art aficionado Jake Dobkin, GrafRank shows which graffiti artists are going up in San Francisco and Oakland, and which areas are popular for their work. The
Arts & Entertainment Friday Night Graffiti: Who's Sorry Now? Ah, yes. Now, this is the kinda of graffiti we like: bold with a dash of guilt and a hint of self-awareness. Friend of SFist Pete Cat came across this gem while lollygagging
SF News Facebook IPO: Graffiti Artist David Choe Stands To Score $200 Million When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David
SF News [Updated] Breaking: The Return of the Laser Kitties! Generik11 / Erik Wilson spotted everyone's favorite Laser Cats in a new mural this morning. Tell us where they're located in the comments. Update: The mural's located in the Space Gallery window above the
Arts & Entertainment Girafa, AKA Steven Free, Pleads Guilty to $38,000 Worth of Street Art Prolific Bay Area tagger and muralist Girafa (née Steven Free) pled guilty to two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts of vandalism in a Santa Clara Superior Court earlier this week. The 32-year-old
Arts & Entertainment Put a Pot Leaf On It: Oaksterdam University's New Oaklandish Mural Over at Oakland's groundbreaking weed university, Brooklyn based artists R.B. Morris III & Munir Munir have replaced the building's faux-collegiate logo with a (ahem) dope new 725-foot mural overlooking Broadway and 17th.
SF News Latest Anti-Graffiti Vigilante Possibly Just a Tagger With Extra Paint This morning the repeatedly painted frontage of the Harding Theater on Divisadero near SFist's Western Branch office saw some much-needed white washing. You might remember the space, which has been tagged over three
Arts & Entertainment "San Francisco\Amsterdam" Tips Hat To Long Distance Relationships Ivan and Elizabeth, two long-distance lovers living in Amsterdam and San Francisco, respectively, came up with a public way of showing their love for each other. "San Francisco\Amsterdam," billed as "a collaborative
Arts & Entertainment And Here We Are: Divisadero Street Art Incident Explained After our Laser Kitten Vandalized! post went up yesterday, we received a landslide of comments, many of them rightly questioning what makes one piece of artwork more valid than another. A few others
Arts & Entertainment BREAKING: Laser Cat Mural Vandalized! Outrage! Well, now this is just disappointing. Barely a month since the Laser Kitten Mural, a.k.a. "Kittenzilla" on Divisadero first delighted us by livening up a long-shuttered movie theater with some playful
Arts & Entertainment Mobile Mural Program to Be Launched at This Weekend's Sunday Streets Get your Sharpie's and spray cans ready, the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) and the Department of Public Works (DPW) have joined forces to launch a Mobile Free Wall Activity pilot program, which
misc Updated: More Banksy Are we bored with Banksy yet? You tell us. Last week, the Chinatown building owners were documented tending to Banksy's doctor. Earlier this week, Blek le Banksy's rat showed up on an historic
misc Chinatown Building Owners Lovingly Clean Banksy's Doctor The Banksy pieces scattered throughout the city have been continually altered by other graffiti artists and taggers during the past week. Warholian and Darwin Bell have documentation of the owners of the Chinatown
misc Floating Head About Town, Enjoying a Smoke UPDATE: The artist is Hugh Leeman, and he'll be showing his work at White Walls on August 8th. We've seen this floating head, which is likely a portrait of Lee Scratch Perry (thanks,