Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
donation adult/child $3/2, Sun services free;
8am-6pm Mon-Sat, to 7pm Sun, services 8:30am &
11am Sun; 1, California St)
Rebuilt three times and completed over 40 years, Grace celebrates community and human
endeavor with an AIDS memorial chapel altarpiece by Keith Haring, murals honoring the
founding of the UN in San Francisco, and Gothic stained-glass windows featuring Albert
Einstein uplifted in swirling atomic particles. Check the website for choral performances
with Grace's splendid acoustics.
San Francisco Art Institute
ART GALLERY
ies: 11am-7pm Tue, to 6pm Wed-Sat; Diego Rivera Gallery: 9am-5pm; Powell-Mason)
Founded in the 1870s, SFAI was the vanguard for 1960s Bay Area Abstraction, 1970s con-
ceptual art, and 1990s new-media art - glimpse what's next in contemporary art here at the
Walter & McBean Gallery
. Diego Rivera's 1931
The Making of a Fresco Showing a
Building of a City
sprawls across
Diego Rivera Gallery
, showing the artist pausing to ad-
mire the constant work-in-progress that is San Francisco.
Lombard Street
STREET
You've seen Lombard's eight downhill switchbacks on postcards, movies
(Vertigo)
, TV
(The Real World)
, even video games (Tony Hawk's
Pro Skater
). Billed incorrectly as 'the
world's crookedest street' - SF's Vermont St deserves the honor - scenic Lombard St earns
street cred with zigzagging flowerbeds. The street often closes to traffic on busy summer
weekends, accommodating pedestrians who brave 250 steps for
Sterling Park
sunsets
with Golden Gate Bridge views.
Japantown
Japan Center
BUILDING
10am-midnight;
;
2, 3, 22, 38, 38L)
