San Francisco

Former San Francisco Art Institute will become non-accredited, studio-based art school following campus restoration

As for the famed Diego Rivera mural housed there, its owner promises that public access will be “prioritised and maintained”

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On a San Francisco roof, an artist’s work is birthed by the night sky

Ala Ebtekar’s new cyanotypes for Arion Press were exposed using moon and starlight during a partial lunar eclipse

San Francisco museums brace for layoffs as a result of the city’s budget deficit

The de Young Museum, Legion of Honor and Asian Art Museum may let go of 20% of their security personnel

San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum to close indefinitely

Museum leaders cited persistently low attendance and support coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reasons for the “reimagining and rebuilding”

Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco to change locations only two years after opening

The city's "start-up museum" will leave its original site in the Dogpatch neighbourhood and reopen in a new downtown development in October

San Francisco dealer Rebecca Camacho expands downtown footprint

Camacho says her new space in Jackson Square is further proof that art “plants the seeds for regrowth” in San Francisco’s core

Laurene Powell Jobs's non-profit buys San Francisco Art Institute and its $50m Diego Rivera mural

After years of financial problems, the troubled institution will enter its next chapter with help from the Apple dynasty

Collaborative approach fuels rise of San Francisco’s Friends Indeed gallery

Founder Micki Meng shows that working with like-minded gallerists can be an art trade superpower

Fog Design+Art fair straddles San Francisco’s countercultural past and complex present

Under the theme of “A Love Letter to San Francisco”, many exhibitors have chosen to champion the work of local artists, notching early sales

Technology for social good: how digital artists are using their work to promote inclusivity

San Francisco’s Gray Area Festival and the Bay Area Now 9 Exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts show how art can be used to form—and strengthen— communities

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum sues architect and construction company behind new $38m pavilion

The museum says that Why Architects and Swinerton Builders “failed to meet even the minimum museum-quality standards”

Former San Francisco Art Institute campus may house a future new art school

Bay Area philanthropists and arts leaders seek to continue the tradition of an art school at the old SFAI campus—great news for the Diego Rivera mural there

Crime news

San Francisco gallerist filmed hosing down unhoused woman strikes deal to have battery charges dismissed

Collier Gwin, who was facing up to six months in prison if his case had gone to trial, will complete 35 hours of volunteer work

New theatre building will house famous Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco

A new three-hall performance centre on City College of San Francisco's campus will house "Pan-American Unity", which is currently on display at SFMoMA

San Francisco Art Institute files for bankruptcy

After years of financial troubles, one of the Bay Area's leading art school's faces the potential liquidation of its storied archive

Vast light installation on San Francisco's Bay Bridge goes dark amid $11m fundraising effort to keep it on

After a decade of illuminating the Bay Area's second-most iconic span, Leo Villareal's artwork will be removed due to outages and weather damage

Two San Francisco museums launch joint curatorial position focused on art of the African diaspora

The new position, created by SFMoMA and the Museum of the African Diaspora, will involve the development of exhibitions and other programmes at both institutions

Seeking more space, a San Francisco dealer relocates to the suburbs

Anthony Meier is joining many of the City by the Bay’s residents who have migrated out of the centre to more spacious surroundings since the start of the pandemic

First major show of Sandro Botticelli’s drawings to include five newly attributed works

Exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will bring together 27 drawings and reunite Uffizi’s Adoration of the Magi with its preparatory designs for the first time

From the archive: San Francisco to unveil Hiroshi Sugimoto's towering sundial monument

The 70ft-high public art commission expresses "humanity's yearning for the infinite"

The rediscovery of Abstract Expressionist Bernice Bing

The Chinese American artist, who died at age 62 in relative obscurity, is the subject of an illuminating exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

San Francisco museums will waive admissions for a weekend thanks to anonymous donation

Twenty-one museums across the city will be free during the inaugural San Francisco Free Museum Weekend on 3-4 December

Is Alice Rahon the next Surrealist rediscovery?

San Francisco dealer Wendi Norris is giving Rahon the royal treatment, with a new exhibition and online archive

Artists fail to win lawsuit over erased murals at San Francisco queer bar

The property owner has been cleared of whitewashing LGBTQ art works at the Stud Bar

San Francisco artists will receive $1,000 per month as part of a guaranteed income pilot programme

The initiative, now in its second round and organised by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, aims to create a stable economic foundation for artists with few or no social safety net protections

Ruth Asawa made hundreds of masks of her San Francisco community—now a local museum is putting them on permanent display

Representing one of the artist’s least known but most ambitious works, "The Faces of Ruth Asawa" is going on show at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center

Reversing course after shakeup, San Francisco school board votes to keep controversial George Washington murals on view

Previously destined to be painted over, then simply covered up, the WPA frescoes have been at the centre of debates about US history, education and representation for four years

Artworks from Ukrainian museum appear as monumental projections in California

The partnership between a Bay Area nonprofit and a museum in Kyiv began shortly before the Russian invasion has taken on new urgency in the days since