San Francisco Arts Commission votes to dismantle Vaillancourt Fountain – The Art Newspaper
In an eight-to-five vote on Monday (3 November), the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) voted to disassemble Armand…
More than 1,000 objects stolen from Oakland Museum of California in storage facility break-in – The Art Newspaper
A thief or group of thieves stole more than 1,000 objects from the off-site storage facility of the…
Contemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues in Los Angeles – The Art Newspaper
In 2017, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, voted to remove an enormous bronze statue of the Confederate general…
San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos – The Art Newspaper
For its 20th anniversary, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in downtown San Francisco has reopened with…
Artist behind San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain sends cease-and-desist letter to halt its destruction – The Art Newspaper
A lawyer representing the artist Armand Vaillancourt has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the City of San Francisco…