Golden Gate Park’s Portals of the Past receives the final touches in a long-term conservation effort.
With over 1,000 artworks permanently sited in public spaces, vandalism of the Civic Art Collection is a constant concern of the San Francisco Arts Commission.
The San Francisco Arts Commission was alerted Wednesday morning to the vandalism of The Holocaust 1982 by George Segal.
Announcing the opening of The Art of a City: The History of the San Francisco Arts Festival 1946-1986 at the San Francisco International Airport.
The first permanent artwork in San Francisco by Maya Lin was accepted into the Civic Art Collection during the October 6, 2008 meeting of the Full Arts Commission.
The statue of San Francisco’s first gay Supervisor, Harvey Milk, was unveiled during a gala party at San Francisco’s City Hall on Thursday, May 22, 2008.
The San Francisco Arts Commission is pleased to announce the loan of Jay DeFeo’s painting Masquerade in Black to the de Young Museum of San Francisco.
As of July 2007 a major restoration is now complete of the Fountain of the Tortoises, located in the center of Nob Hill’s Huntington Park.
Phase one of the monument’s restoration has been completed, seismically stabilizing the structure by expanding the footing and adding additional rear support.
Artist Dustin Shuler, who calls himself an “urban hunter of cars” has restored his 1985 public art work Spider Pelt, a mounted sculpture of a “skinned” red fiat spider.
The 200-year-old Buddha was taken to the conservation lab of Baird/Rief in Grass Valley where old repairs and corrosion were carefully removed and filled with new materials before restoring the patina.
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