The inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival took place this past weekend at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. If you were there, you probably noticed that the six stages featured some pretty amazing artwork by Thomas Campbell, R. Pimple (aka Barry McGee), Jeff Canham, Matt Leines, Monica Canilao, and Rich Jacobs.

Rich Jacobs, who has curated large group art exhibitions under the “MOVE” moniker for over a decade, was responsible for curating the stage artwork and was kind enough to answer a few questions for me via e-mail. [Read more / view photos at sketchypad.com]

Comic book superheros the X-Men settle in the Bay Area in the just-released 500th issue of the Uncanny X-Men. Although they aren’t artists in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, they are making their base in the concrete bunkers beneath the Marin Headlands.

The X-Men seem to acclimate quickly to the culture of the Bay Area by joining in a protest of a controversial art installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Speaking of controversy, local blogger Thomas Hawk was ejected from the museum last week for supposedly shooting a “down blouse” shot of an employee. You can follow the drama here and here. Yesterday the SFMOMA issued a formal response here. There hasn’t been this much drama of man vs. museum since art critic Kenneth Baker took on the Chihuly exhibit at the de Young .

On the topic of photography, the SFMOMA recently changed their policy to allow photographers to take pictures of the permanent collection, the architecture of the building, and the museum’s public spaces. Woohoo!

[via Timothy Buckwalter, SFGate, and Open Space]

Jeff Soto introduced his “Brain Decay” zine at the San Diego Comic-Con, and is now making it available at potatostamp.com for $12 plus shipping. The 24 page zine is composed of drawings and painting experiments from late 2007-2008. Many are sketches for new paintings. Included with the zine are two randomly packaged mini buttons (there are seven different buttons in total). It’s a signed and numbered edition of 500. Buy it now before it sells out.

See more zine pics at Jeff Soto’s blog

I first saw Kylan Larson’s work at the ‘Horses & Babies 4 Sale‘ group show at Fifty24SF Gallery back in 2004, which was curated by Marsea Goldberg from New Image Art Gallery. The imagery in the show mainly focused on buildings, which were drawn with black lines with areas of flat muted color. I really dug the work, and was hoping to see more from him, but he sort of disappeared from the art scene.

Turns out Kylan was busy with a day job as an art director for a men’s clothing company, and only turned out 2 large scale paintings over the course of three years. He recently left that gig and is now focusing more attention on his art … lucky for us. Here’s a mini profile of Kylan, with pics of recent work. [Read more]

Tiffany Bozic’s painting, Untitled (Egrets and Fox), 2006 graces the August cover of Orange County lifestyle magazine COAST. It was selected out of 168 works to represent the Laguna Art Museum’s exhibit In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, which runs through October 5, 2008.

If you’re in Southern California, be sure to pick up a copy. It is COAST’s “green” issue and features a two-page review of the exhibition.