street art

Massive Greta Mural Looks Over San Francisco
The massive portrait of climate activist Greta Thunberg, just off of San Francisco’s Union Square was commissioned in 2019 by SF not-for-profit One Atmosphere.. The artist is Andrés Pereoselli who is Argentinian and known as @CobreArt. He’s done massive portraits like this all over the world. The artist wrote about

Koi Fish Artist Jeremy Novy Calls Out Art Gallery For Non-Payment, Fraud
Street artist Jeremy Novy is the stencil painter behind the koi fish graffiti art seen around San Francisco, but he’s alleging some very fishy behavior at a Castro district art gallery. Novy is filing a lawsuit accusing the Castro gallery Art Attack SF of a series of egregious actions; non-payment

100 Best Cheap Eats in the Bay Area
This list of great places to eat in the Bay Area will leave you smiling and probably drooling. All these joints are incredibly well priced, locally owned, delicious, and serving takeout in 2020. Check their links for store hours, menus, and ordering info, because things are always changing these days,

5 Brooklyn Street Artists You Should Already Know
by Laurie Riihimaki For years, graffiti artists and muralists have taken over the bleak bricks and gray-cemented buildings of Bushwick and beyond to celebrate the culture of the city while also shedding light on current political, economic, and societal issues – striking on important conversations. These murals are not only

Kevin Durant & Apexer Remodel an SF Basketball Court
The Hayes Valley Playground got a fantastic facelift thanks to a parting donation from Kevin Durant and his KD Charity Foundation. The playground got new hoops and backboards, the grounds were resurfaced, and perhaps the most striking improvement is that the whole court was turned into a giant mural by

All the Best Times Trump’s Hollywood Star Was Destroyed
Since Trump has taken office his Hollywood Star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame has been vandalized and micturated upon in all sorts of delightful ways. Sometimes the installations were artful, sometimes brutish, and sometimes just gross. In any case, we rounded up the best bouts of vandalism involving protests against Trump’s

Graffiti Artists Take Their Work “Beyond the Streets” in LA
Following the iconic graffiti and street artists who went on to create studio art, trading spray cans for canvases, moving their art from garage doors to galleries.

Mission Mural Unveiling “Corazon de Campesinos”
Artist Alberto Ybarra is a native San Franciscan and an artist you should know. You may recognize his work from the illustration series he did depicting a changing Mission neighborhood: See more of Old Mission Vs. New Mission series here. Now Ybarra has collaborated with The Mission Community Market on a new outdoor mural on

The Reason There Are Honey Bears All Over the SOMA
You may have noticed walking to work this week that there are hundreds of honey bears hung on lampposts throughout the SOMA district of San Francisco. What are they doing there? They’re a mixture of guerrilla marketing, street art, and social subversion. The artist and his gang of conspirators didn’t