Sam Whiting May 2, 2021Updated: May 3, 2021, 12:28 pm
The David Ireland House at 500 Capp St. in San Francisco. Photo: Stephen Lam / The Chronicle
The David Ireland House at 500 Capp St. is closed Sundays, but artist David Wilson arrived May 2 with his own key to the front door. He jiggled open the old door lock to the 1886 Victorian and dashed across the entryway to disable the alarm as if he owned the place. For the past four months, he essentially has.
In a circumstance made possible by the COVID-19 lockdown of museums and cultural institutions, Wilson, 38, has been alone in this residential monument to the conceptual artist Ireland, who made his home in the Mission his lasting artwork before dying in 2009.