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The CELL PopUp exhibit is up for a few more weeks.
Gallery and Cafe are open this week as follows:
8/25-8/29: Monday to Friday, 10am-3pm
9/5: Friday 10am-3pm
9/8: Monday 10am-3pm
Weekend visits may be available. Just contact us!
The upcoming CELLspace PopUp exhibit, the first time there has been a CELL exhibit outside of the 2050 Bryant Street warehouse space, has a new date and more artists. The stencil artists include: Scott Williams, Icy & Sot, Regan Tamanui, Peat EYEZ, Russell Howze, and James Sellier (RIP). Sellier's 2009 Stencilada panel didn't completely survive in years of storage, but co-curator Jonathan Youtt trimmed off the rotten part and will set it up to hang on the wall with the rest of the surviving mural art.
We have had the continued Archive filename upgrade project on the back burner but we have not forgotten about it. Filenames are updated with more information and less underscores. Typos are corrected and sometimes images are moved if misarchived. The final stretch, with USA and European artists as the last sections to revise, is still down the road. During Peat EYEZ's recent visit, he asked us how many artists archives were on the site. We guessed a generic "hundreds" answer. Looking at this last stretch of revisions, there are 213 USA and 306 European artist archives to go through. Maybe several dozens of those are already upgraded, but now the work has begun!
Always nice to look at the older archives while going through this process. Chris Stain, sometimes collaborating with Scout, was an early artist that got on the Stencil Archive. Bob Patterson was one of the first artists on the site and gets a rare archive with only two images (the general rule is three stencils will start an artist archive). Borf made a large splash about 20 years ago, specifically for getting arrested and going to jail as a teenage vandal in the Washington, DC area. We have gotten into the Cs for USA artist archives, and promise to try to have some more updates throughout the fall.
The clouds tagger was all over Lausanne, CH, but this one was a stencil inside a construction site.
Recent travels into the Alps wasn't all trails in high altitudes. Where there were city and village walks, there were stencil discoveries. Enjoy this fresh upload from:
One of San Francisco’s Most Famous Houses Is Hosting a Pop-Up Museum of Street Artist Fnnch’s Honey Bears
Visitors to the Pink Painted Lady near Alamo Square Park will be able to see 116 editions of fnnch’s honey bear paintings
Elizabeth Djinis, for Smithsonian Magazine History Correspondent August 11, 2025 See the CBS interview with fnnch here. Go here to get entry to the fnnch Museum, or just show up.
Since 2015, painted honey bears have popped up on San Francisco buildings. In that time, they have become symbols of the city, even if they’re not exactly beloved by all of its inhabitants.
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the timeline begins at the fnnch Museum (ph fnnch)
These murals and their artist, known by the name of fnnch, will now have their own pop-up museum in one of San Francisco’s iconic Painted Ladies, a row of colorful Victorians that line Alamo Square Park. The artist announced on his Instagram last month the opening of the “Fnnch Museum,” what he calls a “retrospective of 10 years of Honey Bear paintings.” The show will include an example of each of the 116 editions of honey bears he has created since his very first in January 2015. Guests can attend the exhibit for free but must register at this link—it will run Wednesday through Sunday, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., through October.
“Never before have all the bears been in one space,” fnnch wrote on Instagram, “and I guarantee there are some you have never seen.”
The pop-up exhibit will also feature a timeline of the various honey bears, with descriptions and photos of the ideas behind many of them.
“The honey bear is positive, nostalgic and inclusive,” fnnch told CBS News Bay Area’ Loureen Ayyoub in a televised interview. “It’s something positive for people to enjoy….It’s inclusive because it doesn’t require a lot of cultural knowledge—you see it and you can understand it right away. You don’t have to have studied art history to get what it means and to enjoy it.”
Yet not everyone has agreed with fnnch’s interpretation of his own art. Part of that has to do with the muralist’s own identity, which, while anonymous, “is widely believed to be a straight white man who works in the tech industry,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Zara Irshad.
Brick Lane, UK :: art: cooljc_art :: photo: BeneRegoef
We've been caught up in the CELLspace PopUp exhibit planning, but the stencils still keep showing up around the world. Today, take a stroll over the Euro zones:
