Speaking of Oprah, the fellow Aquarian just received American sculptor Daniel Edwards' chin-scratching touch. (You know, the celeb-loving guy who created that Britney-gives-birth sculpture?) Anyway, Edwards says his "piece pays homage to the closest thing America has to a living deity," hence its resemblance to the coffin of Egypt's Tutankhamun (King Tut!) Or maybe not. According to a thisislondon commenter: She's in the guise of fertility goddesses. It's about celebrating her feminity [sic] and......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Zipcar, for renting cars by the hour or by the day. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Busted Tees, where they're selling three colors of the LED scrolling belt buckle. If you're interested in advertising on SFist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit.......

-- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact, are. Burlesque troupe Kitty Kitty Bang Bang and DJ Ross Hogg's hip hop, dancehall, roots reggae, and dub sounds intertwine with a night of 'stache championing. Tonight's bash will feature a mustache pageant, a beer foam retention test, a mustache haiku......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Dewars Repeal Day, because you shouldn't take the right to have a drink for granted. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Zipcar, for renting cars by the hour or by the day. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Love is a......

Did you hear? Surfer, skateboarder, artist, and occasional Paul Frank designer Thomas Campbell has a new show. This one, it seems, highlights his brand-spanking new work, which he describes as "surf-centric doodles, sculpture, photos, and sewn stuff." Raised as an Orange County "punk," he started out on the scene as part of the "bicoastal movement of street-smart artists who take their cues from underground culture." His rustically genuine work isn't featured here in SF......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Dewars Repeal Day, because you shouldn't take the right to have a drink for granted. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Busted Tees, where they're selling 12 shirts......

The art world is beside itself with the launch of Red Cake, a website that has finally made hipster art cheap, like it should have been all along. Everything's $350 or less, which means that for the price of a nice printer, you can buy a drawing of a deer to hang on your wall. Or a hat that looks like a sea creature. Or a sculpture of some worms. Or the great American......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Dewars Repeal Day, because you shouldn't take the right to have a drink for granted. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Wristcutters, which is in theaters now. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Busted......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Truly CA, stories about California on KQED. Junkestra, a symphony played on junk and opening today! The California Wellness Foundation, presenting the winners of its 2007 California Peace Prize. Sony Card, because you'll get a free MP3 player if you apply. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants.......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at The Independent. Truly CA, stories about California on KQED. Junkestra, a symphony played on junk and opening next Friday. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Wristcutters, which is in theaters now. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Busted Tees, where they've thrown their weight behind Hillary in '08.......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. NY Times Home Delivery, with 50% off home delivery. Truly CA, stories about California on KQED. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Wristcutters, which is in theaters now. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Busted Tees, where you can get free shipping with the purchase of three shirts! If you're interested in advertising on SFist or any......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. NY Times Home Delivery, with 50% off home delivery. Cazadores, the one with the deer head. Truly CA, stories about California on KQED. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Wristcutters, opening next month. Beating the Babushka, available for purchase on Amazon. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. If you're interested in advertising on SFist or any other......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. NY Times Home Delivery, with 50% off home delivery. Cazadores, the one with the deer head. Truly CA, stories about California on KQED. World War Z, perfect as Halloween is coming up. SF Dish, where AMEX cardmembers can dish about restaurants. Interpol, tomorrow at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Wristcutters, opening next month. Stylized Sculpture, at the Asian Art Museum. Travelzoo,......

As is the custom around these parts, we would like to take a moment to thank this weeks' advertisers on SFist. NY Times Home Delivery, with 50% off home delivery. Cazadores, the one with the deer head. Stylized Sculpture, starting today at the Asian Art Museum. Walk for Hope, in town this weekend. Interpol, which is on sale now. Look Me In the Eye, which is apparently an instant best seller. SF Dish, where AMEX......

We'd like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. NY Times Home Delivery, which has an all access delivery option at 50% off. That comes with Premium Crosswords! Cazadores, because it's got a deer head! Stylized Sculpture, starting next Friday at the Asian Art Museum. Walk for Hope, in San Francisco next weekend. SF Dish, where you can earn a $50 gift card. Look Me in the Eye, by Augusten......

Once again, we would like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Sarah Silverman Program, who has new episodes starting in October. Cazadores, because after a long week, we need a drink. Stylized Sculpture, starting October 12th at the Asian Art Museum. Walk for Hope, in San Francisco on October 14th. The Darjeeling Limited, a "spiritual quest" starting tomorrow. AMEX SF Dish, which can help you save at your favorite......

SFist interviews artist Andy Vogt. His latest work is showing at Swarm Gallery in Oakland....

Tonight - two shows open (one show leaves) at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (49 Geary Ste. 411): Orly Corgan's The Wonder of You, and Sentences by Nicholas Knight - both artists are from New York. In her post-modern feminist tapestries, Cogan takes vintage tablecloths and other linens from days gone by and transforms them through embroidery into an erotic fantasyland featuring mostly her. She muses, eats sweets, snorts coke, contemplates kissing frogs and kicks around......

Tonight at the venerable New Langton Arts (1246 Folsom St between 8th and 9th), it's the Opening Reception for Myth by Method, an exhibition that explores the unfolding of narrative through drawing, video, collage, sculpture, and music, with works by SF's Katrina Lamb and New York-based collective Lansing-Dreiden. Lamb and Lansing-Dreiden share an interest in synthesizing the realms of art and music, creating works that resonate with mythology, fantasy, and even daily life. The reception......

Bay Area Wanderer: Larkin and Fulton, San Francisco Among the huge grey bricks of the Civic Center plaza's buildings, there sits a brushed metal sculpture....

SFist Jim (hardest working man in the biz!) sends along these pictures from City Hall, at the unveiling of the three finalists in the Harvey Milk sculpture contest. Harvey Milk is, of course, the first openly-gay supervisor elected to office, who was assassinated in 1978 along with Mayor George Moscone by disgruntled former supervisor Dan White. There's a free reception tonight at City Hall, from 5:30-7:30, in the Van Ness lobby, and the public......

Wow, there's a whole lot of benefits for worthy causes going on this weekend, as well as a head-spinning amount of other stuff to do: Friday that's tonight, and it's the kick-off for Creativity Explored's (3245 16th St. at Guerrero) Annual Holiday Art Sale, a bargain hunter’s paradise of original artwork by artists with developmental disabilities. And it’s all on sale for rock bottom prices – many items as low as $5. Creativity Explored......

-Treasure Island Development Authority passes development plan for Treasure Island. Long John Silver pleased. ...

Public art is often the butt of jokes and viewed with contempt, along with performance art and washed up aging rockers on the county fair circuit. Whatever your feelings are about the role of government in the arts, many people support public art in theory, and its civic impact is meager compared to contracts for garbage disposal, cable television, and towing. Public art controversies are noteworthy in that one sees people get twisted knickers......

We here at the SFist are big fans of all things fist-y, and when we heard about the De Young’s latest acquisition, appropriately titled Fist, we had to go see what it was all about. In short, the bronze sculpture by Surrealist artist Enrico Donati has to be about the fugliest thing we’ve ever seen. It’s big and green and has two very creepy glass eyes attached to it in a way that makes the......

ARTworkSF (49 Geary St., Suite 215 Best of Show” Union Square Gallery Opening July 6-22, Tuesdays-Saturdays noon-5:30, opening reception July 6 5:30-7:30 To celebrate its 14th year in business, ARTworkSF will move into a premiere gallery space in the heart of Union Square. The first opening will take place during San Francisco’s famous “First Thursdays”. Juried by the public, this exhibit will showcase the most popular works of Bay Area artists from past ARTworkSF......

Creativity Explored (3245 16th Street at Guerrero) Nature Rules: A group exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture June 22 - August 10 10-3 M-F, 1-6 Saturdays, opening reception this Thursday from 7-9 From the tiniest orbs of pollen to the towering crowns of redwood trees, artists with developmental disabilities from Creativity Explored investigate all things great and small in nature in a new exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture. Artists used microscopes and magnifiers to......

Varnish Fine Art (77 Natoma between 1st and 2nd Streets) Re: Assembled June 6 through July 15, Tuesdays through Fridays from 11a.m. to 11p.m., Saturdays from 1-5. Opening reception June 8 from 7-11 p.m. Nemo Gould's kinetic metal & found object sculpture, Dan Romo's acrid and whimsical dioramas and Barry Kite's socio-political wall work come together in a single show built on the idea of reassembled motifs. In keeping with Varnish's reputation for sculpture-centric shows,......

These shows prove that the realm of divahood doesn't just consist of hissy fits and Botox or even transvestites....

[Ed. note: we were out of the office yesterday afternoon, so the blog pulse is a day late this week. Sorry!] We start this week with a pictoral ode to our fair city, compounded with a pretty scathing dissection of Windows Live Search functionality, courtesy of the uber-tech-photohound, Thomas Hawk. There's more interesting San Francisco photos over at Elaine Castillo's Flickr feed. It's very much a family photo album of the first year of her......