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Rena Bransten, Legendary San Francisco Art Dealer, Dies at 92
Rena Bransten, an art dealer whose gallery was a fixture of the San Francisco art scene for over 50 years, died Wednesday at the age of 92. Bransten died following a fall after a recent heart attack, her daughter, Trish, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Bransten’s eponymous gallery was founded in 1975 as the successor read more
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Tara Donovan's 'Stratagems' Tower Within a San Francisco Architectural Icon
Completed in 1972, the innovative 48-story building known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center quickly became an indelible icon of the San Francisco skyline. Its modernist features include blocky elements, uniform rows of windows, and it’s namesake pyramidical shape, but its design also took its surroundings into consideration, as its tapered shape meant that more sunlight read more
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$1 M. Jack Whitten Painting Leads Steady Sales at San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art
At the FOG Design+Art, a San Francisco art fair set across two piers at the Fort Mason Center, the tone for opening night on Thursday was set by what takes place the event’s environs. There, one can find a slew of valet drivers in white dinner jackets; they’ve returned from picking up cars belonging to read more
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ICA San Francisco to Stage Major Public Art Commission by Jeffrey Gibson For Super Bowl LX
While the San Francisco 49ers may have blown their chance at a hometown Super Bowl win, that hasn’t stopped the Bay Area from getting into the festivities. On Thursday, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco announced that it will stage a major new public art commission by Jeffrey Gibson. The work—an adaptation of Gibson’s read more
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San Francisco's Tech Billionaires Don't Care About Your Art School
This week San Francisco’s California College of the Arts (CCA) announced plans to close by the end of the 2026-2027 school year. CCA’s campus will then be owned by Vanderbilt University. Citing CCA’s long-standing financial struggles, including “demographic shifts and a persistent structural deficit,” CCA President David C. Howse called the plan “a decisive act read more
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What to See During San Francisco Art Week
My favorite quote about our city by the Bay is from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1957 film Vertigo. As the protagonist, Scottie, looks out at mid-20th-century San Francisco from an office window, his acquaintance, Gavin Elster, observes, “My how San Francisco’s changed. The things that spell San Francisco to me are disappearing fast. I should have liked read more
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