Depending on who you ask, Balmy Alley got its start as a destination for political artists to showcase their work in the early 1970s. As the story goes, an underwater jungle scene was one of the first ...

A fire broke out in a two-unit building at 50 Balmy Alley on Saturday evening, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. The building is located between 24th and 25th streets, near Harrison ...

Andrés Rojo, the Balmy Alley 'Mayor,' artist, and bicycle repairman, tried to appeal his eviction on April 11, 2022. San Francisco Superior Court. Photo by Annika Hom, taken April 11, 2022. Every ...

A mural painted on a fence depicts US President Donald Trump as the Coronavirus in San Francisco, California on April, 01, 2020. - All 40 million residents of California were Thursday ordered to ...

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From elaborate murals bursting with colors to cutting-edge sculptures, the Bay Area is world-renowned for its incredible array of street art. What shouldn't be surprising even for international ...

Clarion is an alley connecting Valencia to Mission, between a cop shop and a crack market,... Street art and artists in SF's Mission District Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

The Clarion Alley Mural Project was established in 1992 by a volunteer collective of six residents-artists who were inspired by the murals of Balmy Alley that began in the early 1970s as an ...

Balmy Alley is a great example of how those themes are represented. Bordered by 24th, 25th, Harrison streets and Treat Ave., this alley is considered the most concentrated collection of murals ...

As kind of a sequel to Vance’s post on Balmy Alley (which I can’t link to, being on the phone, but maybe a co-blogger could do it please), here’s “Thinking of Balmy Alley”, mosaic by ...