Artist of the People

San Francisco Magazine Jessica Zack Courtesy JR-art.net JR's ambitious new mural, The Chronicles of San Francisco, at SFMOMA this month, captures the populace and paradoxes of a diverse American city. Ever since the French graffiti tagger-turned-globe-trotting street artist JR started pasting black-and-white photographs on the rooftops and Metro tunnels of Paris as a teenager, he felt “that if I could just see a new place with my own eyes and get to know it from the people directly, I could sh...