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The fate of the San Francisco Art Institute's historic Diego Rivera mural hangs in limbo


Diego Rivera s The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City at the San Francisco Art Institute
Photo: Steve Rhodes
The proposed sale of a famed Diego Rivera mural at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), which administrators have said would raise much needed funds for the struggling school, has drawn criticism from local artists and city leaders, leading to a last minute move to protect it. The
Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City was commissioned by the university in 1931 and is now valued at $50 million. “This is an incredibly unconscionable decision,” the artist and SFAI alumn Catherine Opie wrote in an open letter. “Of course, I want SFAI to survive, but not by gutting one of the most important artworks in the history of the institution.” ....

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SF Supervisors Move to Make Diego Rivera Mural a Landmark; SFAI Says 'Please Not Yet'


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 ....

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The Diego Rivera mural should stay at the San Francisco Art Institute


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 ....

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