New Haight center celebrates poster art Famous graphic artist Stanley Mouse walked past the giant bronze rabbit at the entrance to the new Haight Street Art Center with a poster under his arm for inspiration. He came to this full-service ...

Light show to wash Park Conservatory in psychedelia For five years, conceptual artist Ben Davis rode his bicycle by the Conservatory of Flowers and wondered what it would look like as a screen for a light show. On Wednesday night at 9:15 p.m., he will find ...

Talking with Janis Joplin’s brother and sister At this point, the caterwauling blues rocker Janis Joplin has been dead twice as long as she was alive. But her legend is at its brightest, stoked by the citywide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the ...

SF painter’s flowery tribute to Summer of Love Megan Wilson’s Summer of Love began 15 summers ago, at 6 a.m on a Thursday, when she made 800 huge paper flowers and arranged them in front of the Hibernia Bank at Jones and Market streets. Those ...

New exhibit reminds us: The Summer of Love was gay, too As San Francisco takes a summer-long pause to consider the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, a new exhibition at the GLBT History Museum teases out the queer people and queer stories who were ...

Groove on hippie vibe at BAM, de Young Summer of Love exhibits Two major museum exhibitions currently on view in the Bay Area could not be more different in their approach to aspects of the same subject: One exhibition tells, the other shows. “Hippie Modernism: The ...

Baron Wolman captured 1960s fashion, counterculture For many, the name Baron Wolman conjures iconic images of San Francisco rock ’n’ rollers during the early days of Rolling Stone Magazine in the 1960s. Wolman, now 80, was the first chief photographer ...