Haight Street Art Center

Look for Jeremy Fish's bronze bunny-skull sculpture, and enter a wonderland of psychedelic silk-screened posters, San Francisco's signature art form at the Haight Street Art Center (haightstreetart.org). Glimpse rock-concert posters in progress at the on-site screen-printing studio, plus jaw-dropping gallery shows featuring Stanley Mouse's psychedelic Grateful Dead posters and Ralph Steadman's original illustrations for Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Gracing the stairwell is a hidden SF treasure: Ruben Kaddish's 1937 WPA fresco Dissertation on Alchemy, surely the trippiest mural ever commissioned by the US government.

The center is open from noon to 6pm, Thursday through Sunday.

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