Max Blue is one of San Francisco's few remaining art critics in legacy media (see: his column in SF Examiner); he also contributes regularly to Hyperallergic.

Max gives the best brief introduction of the big art movements San Francisco is most well known for, and names names including:

• BXP, the company that benefited from the Vaillancourt fountain's removal)

• CIA Operation Mockingbird, the US government's mission to spread abstract expressionism across the globe

• KAWS's hold on the Instagram background niche

• Randall Kline, SF Jazz founder behind the upcoming low-income artists' housing on Market Street

• Sid Sijbrandij, the tech billionaire and art patron flooding public space with Burning Man installations

Max Blue: https://maxbluewriter.com

Max's Substack: https://maxblue.substack.com/

Max for the San Francisco Examiner: https://www.sfexaminer.com/culture/private-funding-of-public-art-prompts-questions-about-intent/article_89b311c0-108a-4464-b676-73548d51471f.html

Max for Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/author/max-blue/

Episodes:

Hanky Code Art NSF Trash Cans with Christen Cioffi: https://www.patreon.com/sadfrancisco/posts/78664457

The Technofascist Plan for an Elite City in Solano County with Anna Kirsch: https://www.patreon.com/sadfrancisco/posts/audio-planning-f-107037093

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