Sad to have passed Adobe Books on the way in this morning to see the "everything must go" signs and a for lease sign on the used book store/ art gallery and long time SF institution. Guess the new building owners want to increase the rent 20% as the Mission isn't what it used to be in terms of cheap rents.

Adobe Books and its backroom gallery have been a long time staple in the SF art scene and will be sorely missed. 22 years they've been hosting art shows, live music events and other forms of art and art discussion. They've consistently hosted quality/ interesting art shows and are of another time in San Francisco that seems to be disappearing quite quickly. Cities change, we sigh.

Read an interview with owner Andrew McKinley and gallery curator Devon Bella.

Adobe Books set to close.

This place is my narnia. I walked in on a whim, not knowing anything about it and I was transfixed. This is truly what a bookstore is about. A place to be lost in all kinds of books. You can get lost on your own or choose to talk with the people, who are the nicest. Wander the backroom gallery. they even have a bathroom! (always a great thing in my book!) -Kaitie D. via Yelp

Opening tonight, Friday, here in San Francisco. If you're in town, be sure to get to this show. We'll be there as it should be a good one. We'll have some pics up next week for you to check out if you can't make it in person.

Brooklyn based Eric Shaw opens up Through the Blinds at San Francisco's Park Life on June 15th.

In September he opens a two person show with Henry Gunderson at FFDG.

Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame with long time Fecal Face contributor Andreas Trolf via the way back machine. Remember when they played SF City Hall in '02? We do. It was awesome.

Mark Mothersbaugh & Andreas Trolf

Read our 2008 interview with Mark Mothersbaugh.

Alright skaters young and old. Behold one of the best street parts EVER in skateboarding from 1996. We would embed here, but the video contains music which can only be viewed on the You Tubes.

Guy Mariano from Girl's 1996 video "Mouse"

We love the art program at the SF Dump/ Recology. How many cities have dumps with an arts residency programs where atists are free to roam the dump, collect and use anything they find to create art from?

The residency includes 24-hour access to a well-equipped 2,000 sq. ft. studio, a monthly stipend, and an exhibition at the end of each residency. If you wanna get down on this great program, phone Micah Gibson at (415) 330-1414.

Ferris Plock spent some quality art time at the San Francisco Dump.

Ferris Plock did the residency and put together a three part blog for Fecal Face last year. PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | THE OPENING

Evan Hecox (check our studio visit) opens an exhibition of new mixed-media works with the solo show Dark Island at NYC's Joshua Liner on Thurs, (6-9pm).

Evan Hecox in his studio. Photo by Andrew Paynter for Fecal Face.

Wanna do a commissioned mural/ multi-media project/ public artwork on a massive silo here in San Francisco? Live in the Western United States? The commission pays $190,000, and the mural will be up for 5 years. Awesome opportunity and if you think you have the right stuff, READ THE DETAILS AND APPLY.

$190,000 to put your art on this massive silo in San Francisco.

Artwork opportunities may include a mural or kinetic artwork on the exterior wall of the northern grain silo or a lighting or multi-media project that illuminates or projects on the cranes or silos in the day or at night. Pier 92 is located at the entrance to the Bayview community and the artwork should make a strong visual statement in keeping with the gateway experience and industrial setting. ~read on

Our buddy Jeremy Fish has a brand new print The Golden Hills out through Upper Playground. The print is made in an edition of 100, signed and numbered by the artist, and printed at the fantastic Bloom Press in Oakland, California. 18" x 24" $100

This drawing was inspired by that looming feeling that San Francisco is an isolated island from the rest of the country. As SF becomes more and more expensive, and the lower income creative folks that make this city pulse get squeezed off the island, "the city that knows how" will slowly transform into a sterile west coast Manhattan full of tech chads and internet gurus. —Jeremy Fish

The Asian Art Museum opens their grand first contemporary show PHANTOMS OF ASIA with a massive preview party this evening with DJs, food, and other goodies 7:30pm - midnight ~details

We went to the press preview yesterday and should have some photos to share, but time constraints due to preparations for our show w/ Dave Kinsey opening Friday and the lack of a mayor Ed Lee which all were waiting for... Well, we had to bail before they let us preview the show... What we've seen online looks great and tonight should be a blast. See you there.

Some of the artists participating in PHANTOMS OF ASIA under Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa's 24-foot-tall "Breathing Flower" in the Civic Center.

Hi-Fructose previews Dave Kinsey's upcoming show Lost For Words opening this Friday, May 18th (6-9pm) @FFDG in San Francisco. ~Check it

Marc Jacobs vs. The Graffiti Artist, Round 2: When Jacobs Turns Vandalized Store Into $680 Shirt <-- Earlier this week, on the night of the Met Ball, the Marc Jacobs boutique in SoHo was hit by French graffiti artist Kidult, who has famously vandalized Supreme, Hermes, and Louis Vuitton, among others. The hit? Kidult took a fire extinguisher filled with pink paint, and sprayed the word ART over the front of the store (seen below). ~continue reading

Congrats to some of our friends who've just graduated from SFAI this past weekend. Henry Gunderson (below), Alex Ziv, Quinn Arneson and our intern Alex Uhrich among many more not only at SFAI but those at CCA and other schools across the country. May you all work hard and prosper in your future arting endeavors.

Henry Gunderson all grown up, college graduated and bow-tied.

SF based Kevin Taylor opens "Kounter Part" tonight, Saturday May 12th, at Guererro Gallery here in SF. 2700 19th St. Didn't see info on their site, but they're openings generally run from 7-11pm.
-check a preview

The Asian Art Museum here in San Francisco opens its first large-scale contemporary art exhibition Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past with a big old preview party on Thursday, May 17th complete w/ DJs VIN SOL and KING MOST. ~details

Curated by Mami Kataoka, chief curator of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, in collaboration with Allison Harding, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Asian Art Museum, Phantoms of Asia features artworks by contemporary artists hailing from Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Tibet, and the U.S. Going to be a great show.

Installation by Choi Jeong Hwa

White Walls here in SF opens the solo show Can't Afford to be Broke with London based Word to Mother featuring new works on wood on Saturday, May 12th (7-11pm). 835 Larkin St.
-details and work samples