SF Supervisors Move to Make Diego Rivera Mural a Landmark; SFAI Says 'Please Not Yet'
The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to initiate a process to designate the famed Diego Rivera mural at the San Francisco Art Institute's Chestnut Street campus a city landmark, in order to prevent it from being sold and removed. But the financially strapped school is begging the board not to go down this path right now, because even if they don't sell the mural they need to use the asset to secure a loan.
As one of three murals that Rivera painted in San Francisco between 1931 and 1940, the 1931 mural titled