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In Situ received positive reviews in its first year of operation. It was named the "restaurant of the year" by the San Francisco Chronicle [3] and "America's Most Original New Restaurant" by The New York Times. [4] It was also awarded a Michelin star in 2017 [5] and a James Beard Restaurant Design Award in 2018. [6]
Lucien Adolphe Labaudt (May 14, 1880 – December 12, 1943) was a French-born American painter based in San Francisco, California. [3] His best-known work may be Powell Street (1934), a mural in fresco at Coit Tower that he created for the Public Works of Art Project .
During the urban renewal and redevelopment movement of the mid-1960s, the International Hotel was targeted for demolition. [5] This "urban renewal" that occurred in response to the end of World War II had destroyed the heart of the Fillmore District, San Francisco, and hundreds of homes and thousands of residents were displaced due to the city's plans to expand the downtown business sector.
Rincon Center is a complex of shops, restaurants, offices, and apartments in the South of Market neighborhood of Downtown San Francisco, California.It includes two buildings, one of which is the former Rincon Annex post office building, completed in 1940.
Hotel des Arts is a boutique hotel in San Francisco, California.When it opened in 2005, [2] 16 of its 51 rooms were painted by local artists–today 38 rooms are. [3] [4] Materials used include wall-mounted vinyl records, plastic bags, graffiti, fabrics, three-dimensional art work, and even installations.
Minnesota Street Project was founded in 2016 by venture capitalist Andy Rappaport, and Deborah Rappaport. [2] The Minnesota Street Project Foundation (founded in 2019), and the California Black Voices Project and Grants for Arts Equity (founded in 2021), are two grant programs born from this project, created to “begin addressing the systemic racism in the art world”.
[5] The art center was originally located on the San Francisco campus of the California College of the Arts, in a refurbished 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2) former Greyhound Bus maintenance facility designed in 1951 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The Wattis Institute opened its new location at 360 Kansas Street in January 2013.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States.Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, national, and international artists and the Bay Area's diverse communities.