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This week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to begin the process to confer landmark designation on Diego Rivera’s mural at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), which would prevent its future removal. The mural, which is titled
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City– and which the SFAI has reportedly considered selling to help cover its debts – was commissioned by the school’s president, William Gerstle, in 1930. The subject of this fresco within a fresco is the building of a modern industrial city and it pays tribute to the workers behind such projects, with a giant figure of a worker in blue overalls and helmet at the centre of the composition. Also depicted are the artist and assistants in the act of making the fresco, and some capitalist patrons who stand below Rivera’s
Dewey Crumpler: Culture, Power & Art
Cost: Free
UCSD: University of California San Diego remote guest lecture: Dewey Crumpler is an Associate Professor of painting at San Francisco Art Institute. His current work examines issues of globalization/ cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video and traditional painting techniques. Works are available in the permanent collections of the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA; Bank of America Headquarters, San Francisco CA; and Oakland Museum, CA. Awards include: The Flintridge Foundation Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as The Fleishhaker Foundation Fellowship Eureka Award. Currently represented by Jenkins Johnsons Gallery.
Sam Whiting January 6, 2021Updated: January 19, 2021, 11:04 am
The Diego Rivera mural, titled “The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City,” at the San Francisco Art Institute on Russian Hill. Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle
The San Francisco Art Institute is not “strongly pushing” to sell its famed Diego Rivera mural, as has been reported, in order to help the school out of its financial hole, board chair Pam Rorke Levy told The Chronicle on Wednesday. But Levy also said that the 1931 fresco is the most valuable asset at the 150-year old school and that all scenarios are being analyzed as it faces massive financial challenges.