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In 2002, when renovations to the Cliff House had begun, the National Park Service announced plans to relocate the Musée Mécanique temporarily to Fisherman's Wharf. A portion of the $14 million renovation was devoted to moving the museum, with support from the National Park Service, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and museum owner Ed Zelinsky.
The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts was founded in 1998 by Lawrence Rinder. [2] It was originally named the CCAC Institute of Exhibitions and Public Programming, [2] and was renamed is 2002 following the death of Phyllis C. Wattis, a San Francisco cultural philanthropist [3] [4] and the great-granddaughter of Brigham Young.
[1] [10] Rosenthal then moved to New York City, where he continued to edit and publish Beat writers before moving to San Francisco in 1967 with the intention of setting up his own commune free of censorship. [1] He was joined by Hibiscus (a founder of psychedelic free theater groups The Cockettes and the Angels of Light), [14] starting the ...
Columbus Tower, also known as the Sentinel Building, is a mixed-use building in San Francisco, California, completed in 1907.The distinctive copper-green Flatiron style structure is bounded by Columbus Avenue, Kearny Street, and Jackson Street; straddling the North Beach, Chinatown, and Financial District neighborhoods of the city.
New Langton Arts (active 1975 – 2009) [1] was a not-for-profit arts organization focusing on contemporary art founded in 1975 and located the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
Notwithstanding the merger, the Museum of the City of San Francisco's website, operated directly by Gladys Hansen, remained independent and in 2003 renamed itself the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. [10] Hansen's personal research collection of artifacts from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake also remained in her possession. [11]
Fraenkel Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in San Francisco [2] [3] founded by Jeffrey Fraenkel in 1979. Daphne Palmer is president of the gallery. [4]Fraenkel Gallery has presented more than 350 exhibitions, with a focus on photography and its relation to other arts including painting, drawing, sculpture, and video.
Melchor and Hirshberg [3] initially opened Gray Area Gallery in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) in 2006, following a conversation about the lack of proper venues for the exhibition of new media and technology-based art works. [4] By 2008, the gallery had incorporated as a non-profit and was renamed the Gray Area Foundation for The Arts.