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800 Chestnut (at Jones) San Francisco, CA 94133

415-771-7020

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"San Francisco Art Institute Exhibitions"

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Ongoing student exhibitions change weekly, with opening receptions on Tuesdays from 5 to 6 p.m.

2010 | Best Free Famous Murals

There's no beating the Mission for outdoor murals. Yet no art lovers should miss three of the city's indoor walls emblazoned with the work of the Mexican godfather of the art form himself: Diego Rivera. Start at the City Club of San Francisco (check in with the ground floor lobby guard from 8 to 10 a.m. on weekdays for permission to go up to the 10th floor), where Rivera's Allegory of California shows the Amazon deity Califa (our state's namesake) dwarfing a tableau of workers from the... More »
2006 | Best Surreptitious Drink With a View

If you're looking for the perfect cheap, arty date, sneak into SFAI's gorgeous campus one clear evening with a sweetheart and a bottle of wine. If anyone looks at you funny, just act like you're preoccupied with conceptual hoo-ha on the way to your studio in the basement. You can admire the art hung around the beautiful courtyard, and see which lucky students have a duet with Diego in the Rivera Gallery (just off the main courtyard). Then head north until you come out onto a big patio, climb... More »
2001 | Best View, Sans Tourists

On a quiet stretch of Chestnut, where North Beach's brio accedes to Russian Hill's bankbook, you'll find the San Francisco Art Institute. Step through the portal, stop to admire the goldfish pond, then veer left and continue past the art-laden walls to the open-air piazza at the rear of the building. Procure a refreshment at Pete's Cafe and head skyward, up the nearby steps. The climb is mild, especially given the reward: a serene bay panorama stretching from the Marin Headlands past... More »

"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx": Singular Actor Singularly Celebrated

By Alan Scherstuhl | Wed, April 04, 2012

Wednesday, April 11 Harpo Marx — that industrious nonsense-maker, that weirdly peripheral cynosure, that genius of the rambunctious nonsequitur — at last has the celebrant he deserves. In The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Wayne Koestenbaum — that industr... More »
The Low Road

By Keith Bowers | Wed, February 22, 2012

It took filmmaker Terry Zwigoff nine years to make the documentary Crumb, about the underground comic artist of the same name. Zwigoff was broke, suffering chronic back pain so bad it made him contemplate suicide, unable to get investors intereste... More »
Tehran Calling

By Michael Fox | Wed, September 07, 2011

Iranian filmmakers need to be adept at metaphor. But even that is no guarantee of career longevity, or freedom, as evidenced by the recent prison terms of internationally celebrated directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof. The fourth annual I... More »
Culture and Circumstance

By Heidi De Vries | Wed, August 24, 2011

Diego Rivera crossed cultural lines: Mexican and American, artist and activist, creator and observer. His 1931 mural The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, in his namesake art-school gallery, deliberately plays visual tricks, depic... More »
Oscar Wilde Performance Crucifies -- and Deifies -- the Arts Critic

By Heidi De Vries | Mon, August 8, 2011

The role of the critic is a passionately debated subject in cultural circles. Should critics merely report what they see, or is it their duty to also provide extensive historical context and construct... More »
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San Francisco Art Institute

800 Chestnut (at Jones) San Francisco, CA 94133

415-771-7020

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2010 | Best Free Famous Murals

2006 | Best Surreptitious Drink With a View

2001 | Best View, Sans Tourists

By Alan Scherstuhl | Wed, April 04, 2012

By Keith Bowers | Wed, February 22, 2012

By Michael Fox | Wed, September 07, 2011

By Heidi De Vries | Wed, August 24, 2011

By Heidi De Vries | Mon, August 8, 2011