Downtown developers required to finance public art may soon be able to meet that requirement as easily as writing a check.
On Thursday, the Planning Commission unanimously supported a measure by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor David Chiu that would create a Public Art Trust Fund. It would allow developers who are required to put 1 percent of their construction costs toward public art to give the money to the fund instead of commissioning a project on their own.
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Pressure is mounting for The City to terminate the $750,000 art contract with a Brooklyn, N.Y., artist who killed a dog for a film.A petition drive was started by one mayoral candidate calling for the contract’s termination and Mayor Ed Lee has told the Arts Commission to re-examine the approval. The contract with artist Tom Otterness was called into question following an article in The San Francisco Examiner’s Friday edition.
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For two weeks in April, former Arts Commission Director Luis Cancel collected a paycheck for 71 hours working “online” in Rio de Janeiro, according to time sheets obtained by The San Francisco Examiner.
Those two weeks, plus another three days he spent in Rio in October to attend a conference, are part of the reason Cancel had been under pressure from Arts Commission members to resign.
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We’ll say this about Luis Cancel: He’s made the world safe for the ever-growing number of telecommuters.That is to say, you shouldn’t feel guilty if you tell your boss that you won’t be in the office when you’re actually at the Russian River or Lake Tahoe, which — if you are actually working — is at least in the same hemisphere and time zone.
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Arts Commission Executive Director Luis Cancel has resigned as the head of the department tasked with providing money to artists, cultural centers and the symphony.
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A public art installation promoted by San Francisco rock legend Carlos Santana and designed by two local artists would have brought a message of peace to the new police headquarters in Mission Bay.
They envisioned a statue of a black angel, perhaps a victim of violence. It would be fashioned from melted guns confiscated through good police work. And at the angel’s feet would be an interactive boombox playing songs of peace, including an original tune from Santana.
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A nonprofit director who receives city funding to provide art instruction to San Francisco youth was charged with possession of child pornography, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.46-year-old Anthony Josef Norris is the founder and director of Kid Serve, a nonprofit that provides art lessons to children throughout the Bay Area. Norris appeared in U.S. District Court Thursday morning on the charges and posted a $200,000 bond.
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The list of hundreds of artists eager to beautify three new Muni stations as part of The City’s ambitious Central Subway project has narrowed to 19.
The San Francisco Arts Commission secured about $9 million to finance the artists chosen to decorate the new stations near Union Square, at the Moscone Convention Center and in Chinatown. The $1.6 billion transit expansion would connect Muni’s light-rail service from the South of Market area to Chinatown.
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So it happened; The City’s cultural centers that for decades have incubated local artists have been made to bear the brunt of the Arts Commission’s mandatory budgetary cuts.
Commissioners at their regular meeting Monday approved their $7 million budget for the next fiscal year with these cutbacks:
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If you’re a football fan, you know that Vernon Davis is the captain of the 49ers, that he was selected in the first round of the 2006 draft, that he’s considered one of the best tight ends in the league and that he scored 22 touchdowns last season.
But you might not know that Davis is also an artist.
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