A spectacularly trashy art show celebrates San Francisco’s garbage piles

Some people, notably tech CEOs and out-of-state politicians, like to complain about how dirty San Francisco is. Others embrace the trashiness – literally, in the case of a gritty new exhibit at the city’s MAG Galleries.

“Art and Fashion in the Garbage Age” assembles recent work from the Piles Collective, a group of artists who repurpose garbage and up-cycled materials sourced right here from local streets and trash piles. “We live in an age when Garbage threatens our way of life,” they declare.