by Ed Fuentes

A list isn't enough this year. Any such year-end post could have led with stories about the mural ordinance being passed, lifting a decade long ban on the city's cultural calling card. It could detail the murals by rebellious artists who simply painted on despite the ban, or even chat up Banksy's stencil on a gas station wall from 2008 that fetched $209,000 at auction.

But it was the news of the death of Joseph Gatto, the gifted arts educator slain November 13, that made a poignant agony in the year that resolved art being banned from the walls of the city.

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