Why, our art critic wonders, don’t San Franciscans flock downtown for art the way they do for tech conferences?
It felt like downtown, which has been beleaguered of late, was the epicenter of a bustling city which, while offering a change of pace, disrupted my schedule. Why, I wondered, don’t people flock downtown for art the way they do for tech conferences?
The ICA opened in 2022 at 901 Minnesota St., where the Minnesota Street Project Foundation — the philanthropic project of former Silicon Valley venture capitalist Andy Rappaport and his wife, Deborah — underwrote construction work and a 15-year lease. The initial venture was also backed by a suite of tech funders, including Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and Slack co-founder Cal Henderson, who have since departed from the museum’s board of directors.
The otherwise almost all-glass building is part of a complex co-owned by the Trump Organization and on a lender watchlist, which might explain Vornado’s desire to diversify their tenancy portfolio and increase property value to attract other tenants downtown. Ex // Top Stories SF clinic eagerly awaits expanded methadone access Bridge Clinic looks forward to state’s not-so-distant future after Assembly Bill 2115 became law
I wonder if this kind of dislocation and decentralization is really the best way to approach art, especially when artists themselves have faced a very stark reality of dislocation as a result of the booming tech industry. “I think the storyline that tech people don’t support the arts comes from the New York art community, and I think it’s completely off and always has been,” said Todd Hosfelt, director of his eponymous gallery in Dogpatch. “I’ve had lots of clients who work directly in tech and I have even more clients who have made money because of technology.”
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