SF Bay Area

Oakland’s Gray Loft Gallery’s Summer Salon Showcases Bay Area Artists
Oakland’s Gray Loft Gallery is a gem of the Jingletown art scene and their Summer Salon proves it. The show is closing on Saturday, August 26th and I highly recommend the trip to see it. 12 Bay Area Artists make up the show. Utilizing a wide range of mediums and

Amazing Art Structures Being Built at Burning Man 2023
While most people arrive on the Playa after everything is already built, most of the artists have been hauling, digging, hammering, strapping, sawing, and polishing in the dust (and rain) for weeks now, moving thousands of pounds of steel, glass, timber, (and elbow grease) onto a prehistoric lake bed in

San Francisco Nonprofit Looks to Revive SoMa with Filipino Culture
The vacant storefronts along San Francisco’s South of Market Mission Street Corridor could soon be filled with more Filipino businesses, thanks to the nonprofit economic development and arts organization Kultivate Labs.

Amazingly Bad Pet Portraits Offered by Oakland Animal Services
Every now and again something amazing happens in the world of bad, pet art. And when that happens, rest assured www.brokeassstuart.com is on the case! Oakland Animal Services announced the kickoff of its 4th annual Bad Art Fundraiser! Meaning you can donate to help sheltered animals in the Bay Area

Can IKEA Save Downtown San Francisco?
I’m bored of writing about this, but here we go again. Downtown San Francisco is experiencing high retail vacancy rates because rich people are scared of people on drugs. That’s why they attend things like Burning Man, to get away from drug addicts – well, at least the poor ones.

So, Violent Crime Is Up Under Brooke Jenkins…
Imagine you’re a gang member in the most stereotypical sense possible. Like you’re a caricature for Fox News to scare boomers from ever stepping foot outside of the suburbs. You’re sitting in your house. There’s a gun stashed under the bed, a shoebox stuffed with roughly $6,000 in cash and

Artists: SF is Holding “I Voted!” Sticker Design Contest
For you artists, doodlers, sketchers, painters, cartoonists, and democratic enthusiasts out there, you’ve got the opportunity to have every voter in San Francisco walk around with your work on their chests during the 2024 Presidential Primary and General Elections, The top three winners will receive a cash prize of $1,000

Looking Forward: 10 Years of Photography at Pier 24
We visited the much anticipated and much delayed second half of Looking Forward:10 Years of Photography at Pier 24 recently. The first half of this show launched in 2019. This visual odyssey took us on a view of photographs of urban life layered over decades as well as carefully composed