Photo by Molly Oleson

Swoon, the New York-based street artist, has a new wheatpaste at 24th and Hampshire.

The work replaced one that went up in February 2012 and was looking a little ragged.

Molly Oleson, a former editor and reporter at Mission Local, who is now editor of the Pacific Sun and the photographer on an earlier Swoon mural story, discovered the new piece on a walk through the Mission. Annice Jacoby, a local artist, confirmed that the mural was by Swoon and said it went up about six months ago.

Photo by Molly Oleson
Photo by Molly Oleson

Related:

The Mission’s Beloved Swoon, Part I & II, January 2012

Will Pedestrians Swoon Over Art on a Wall, March 22, 2012

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

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