SF News Text This Number, And SFMOMA Will Send You Images From Its Collection By Keyword A new image search function created by SFMOMA makes Google image search look like a service for philistines. Art enthusiasts with some free time on their hands and no one to text are
Arts & Entertainment Solange Will Grace SFMOMA's Birthday Bash In April Her sister Beyonce headlines venues like Levi's Stadium, but Solange is apparently more at home in a museum setting. A year ago in April, SFMOMA threw open its doors to show off the
Arts & Entertainment #SubvertTheCity Anti-Ad Campaign Hits SF Bus Shelters If you see something that looks more like art, or like the hand-painted poster above, in a spot that would usually be home to home to an advertisement somewhere around the city, this
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Roll A Plaster Sphere Sculpture Around Hayes Valley Brooklyn-based artist Rachel Higgins has just installed one of her interactive sculptural works at Hayes Valley Art Works, i.e. the empty lot next to the newly constructed Avalon development on what used
Arts & Entertainment Cool New Five-Story Mural Completed Near Mission And Fourth Street A fine break from the week's enervating political news: A rad new mural by noted anonymous muralist Believe In People has just been completed this week, during the break in the rain, on
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rad Local Woodworker Katie Gong Profiled In New People Mag Series San Francisco-based woodworker and artist Katie Gong, of Katie Gong Design, is the subject of Episode 7 of People Magazine's new American Doers series, hosted by very handsome Brit James Marshall. Gong grew
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A Buddha, A Rabbi, A Black Lives Matter Supporter, And Frida Kahlo's Ghost On A Cable Car New Mission Mural 'An Act Of Kindness In A Trump Era' https://t.co/xN9EaLCPkq by @editcatsf pic.twitter.com/QtTsLgjGML— Hoodline (@Hoodline) January 18, 2017 Street muralist and Bob's Burgers illustrator Sirron
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Out Of The Box,' A Sneaker Exhibit At Oakland Museum Over at the Oakland Museum of California, a new exhibit tracks the phenomenon of sneakers as fashion items and design objects. It's called Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture and
SF News RayKo Photo Center, Largest Such Operation In The West, Plans To Shutter For Good In May The darkrooms at RayKo Photo Center, a 26-year-old photography institution that's spanned the medium's major transition from film to digital with copious resources in each discipline, will go proverbially dark at the end
SF News Fancy SoMa Condo Reproduces Local Artist's Work Without Permission Even if you don't know his name, you've likely seen his work. Jeremy Novy's stencils of spotted koi fish dot San Francisco sidewalks, and the queer artist's work has become synonymous with SF's
SF News Ghost Ship Fire Could Immediately Impact Other Arts Spaces In Bay Area And Elsewhere With the Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Ion Almena very much in the spotlight following Friday's deadly fire, another, less corporeal object of potential blame has emerged in some circles: the Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment Video: Artist Brian Goggin Discusses His Creative Process If you've spent any time wandering the streets of San Francisco, you've likely seen the work of Brian Goggin. The artist is known for putting his creations in unexpected and very public places,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Check Out The Most Dazzling Art Works Of The Festival Of Light Your showing-around of holiday guests and visiting tourists can be a little more festive this season with the Illuminate SF Festival of Light, underway now through New Year’s Day. The long winter
Arts & Entertainment Cosplayers Descend On SFMOMA, Paint The Place Red Way more smartphone pictures than usual were snapped on Sunday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as more than a dozen cosplay specialists tricked themselves out to represent works on display
Arts & Entertainment Hopeful Post-It Notes Appear On 'Walls Of Empathy' At Three SF BART Stations, Post-Election 16th BART plaza in SF. Wall of Empathy. pic.twitter.com/CQlN5iznNg— Jeff Hunt (@jeffnhunt) November 14, 2016 Inspired by a subway tunnel in New York that has become an outpouring of grief
SF News SF Artist Offers Smell-Based Tours Of The Presidio This will officially be the most San Francisco thing you hear about all weekend. Artist Laura Halsey Brown is creating hand-drawn psychogeographic art kerchiefs (!) that contain smell maps of the Presidio. And this
SF News Futuristic Design Of George Lucas's Proposed Treasure Island Museum Unveiled As the saga of George Lucas's proposed Museum of Narrative Art continues, it appears the famed director and passionate art collector has at least a few more tricks up his sleeve. The latest
Arts & Entertainment 55-Foot Nude Woman Sculpture To Get Inaugural Lighting Near San Leandro BART Tonight Truth is beauty at Burning Man By Marco Cochrane Pic courtesy of @scottlondonpics edited by me #burningman #art #... pic.twitter.com/Df8SrPvwEl— Luis Cochez (@L_uisCochez) November 18, 2014 After some months of
Arts & Entertainment Local Photographer Finds National Fame Through Instagram 'Doortraits' A photo posted by Julie Gebhardt (@juliegeb) on Sep 27, 2016 at 9:25pm PDT People Instagram a lot of random stuff, especially in San Francisco, which we learned late last year is
Arts & Entertainment 'LightRail' LED Installation On Market Street Begins Raising Funds The cool, transit-centric light installation unveiled two years ago by the non-profit behind the Bay Lights remains a project in motion, though an initial plan to break ground on it in 2016 appears
Arts & Entertainment 'Business Decision' Leads Storage Company To Paint Over Cloud Mural Anyone who's ever taken the Octavia exit off 101 has seen and likely loves the mural gracing the side of Extra Space Storage. The puffy clouds painted on a bright blue sky provide
Arts & Entertainment CCA Students Picture A City With 100,000 More Units Literally drawing on the housing crisis, California College of the Arts students have a new exhibition of somewhat fanciful and often preposterous but visually intriguing designs that would add housing units to San
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA Does MTV 'Cribs'-Style Short With SF Photographer Michael Jang The revamped SFMOMA has a newly revived YouTube presence, the best part of which is a new series called "Artist Cribs" featuring well edited, MTV-style tours of artists' homes. The latest was shot
Arts & Entertainment Ginger, Artist Behind Trump Statues, Arrives In SF As expected, Joshua "Ginger" Monroe has come to SF ahead of a planned Friday event celebrating his Trump statue at Lefty O'Doul's in Union Square. Fans shouldn't be too disappointed, though, despite the
Arts & Entertainment This Year We Get To See All The Burning Man Art Early Because Instagram We showed you previews and renderings of nine of the bigger pieces of art out on the playa this year, but now, thanks to fully functioning cell signal and wi-fi out in the
