Arts & Entertainment Abandoned Presidio Gun Batteries To Become New Art Installation From People Behind Ai Weiwei Show The organization behind 2014's Ai Weiwei @Large installation at Alcatraz now has its sights set on the long vacant army gun batteries that were part of what was once known as Fort Scott,
Arts & Entertainment What George Lucas Means By 'Narrative Art': Chronicle Gets First Glimpse Of His Collection For years now there's been all this public back-and-forth about George Lucas and his plans for a big museum, named for himself, that would house a collection of what's alternately been referred to
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Bernal Rock Becomes Poop Emoji The locally famous Bernal Heights rock, a frequently painted and re-painted neighborhood gem, is starting to get sh***y. During primary season, you may recall, the landmark was claimed by fans of Bernie
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Potentially Dicey Stipulations In SFMOMA's Agreements Surrounding The Fisher Collection As you're likely well aware by now, the newly reopened SFMOMA now has more than half of its expanded gallery space devoted to paintings and sculptures that are part of the Doris and
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Couple, Painted To Be Living Mural, Gets Engaged An SF couple participating in a "living mural" by artist Alexa Meade who specializes in painting on people, and their clothing, to turn them into figures in two-dimensional works of art that appear
Arts & Entertainment Nine Awesome Pieces Of Burning Man Art To Look For On The Playa Burning Man 2016 is shaping up to be a fun one, art-wise, so long as the dust storms stay at bay. Below we bring you a collection of things Burners can look out
Arts & Entertainment Several People In San Leandro Still Upset About Three-Story Nude Woman Sculpture 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 While the Chronicle has
Arts & Entertainment 101 (Fiberglass) Cows Are Coming To The Madonna Inn The already peculiar Madonna Inn is about to get a whole lot more so. The famed San Luis Obispo spot known for its 110-uniquely themed rooms will soon be welcoming to its grounds
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Shepard Fairey Mural Of Cesar Chavez Takes Shape Shepard Fairey, the prodigious artist behind Obama's "Hope" poster, is in San Francisco this week where he's working on two murals in a series of five called American Civics. Those focus on what
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Puts A Bunch Of Bart Simpsons On BART Because Why Not In a public art project that is more delightfully random than meaningful, local artist Elissa Patel decided to put a bunch of people in Bart Simpson masks and have them ride BART for
Arts & Entertainment Shepard Fairey Painting Two New Murals In SF This Week The man who famously created the Obama "Hope" poster (and those ubiquitous Andre the Giant stickers), artist Shepard Fairey, is in San Francisco this week executing two new murals as part of a
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Avocado Mural By John Van Hamersveld Is Subtle Ad With Secret Snapchat Filter The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album cover. The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. The poster for The Endless Summer. John Van Hamersveld designed those arresting images and many more. Oh, and here's
Arts & Entertainment Say Goodbye To Fifteen-Year-Old Mission Mural, <i>Generator</i>, But It Will Be Replaced A well loved mural that has graced the side of a residential building at Lexington and 18th since 2002 has reached the end of its life. According to a release sent out Monday
Arts & Entertainment 'Ed Ruscha and the Great American West' Opens Saturday at the deYoung Of the 20th Century painters who are most associated with California Diebenkorn, Park, Hockney, Thiebauld none created as bold, graphic, and ironic a style as Ed Ruscha (pronounced Roo-shay). He's most often tied
SF News Local Artist 'Flattered' By Brazen Theft Of $750 Painting BOLO: Stolen Art Work This was stolen from the San Mateo County Fair last week. Contact @SanMateoPD pic.twitter.com/C8VAvK9PVx— Stanley Roberts (@SRobertsKRON4) June 21, 2016 A local artist is definitely taking
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Catacomb Of Veils, A Huge, Pyramid-Like Monument Coming To Burning Man 2016 One experienced Burning Man temple construction crew, led by artist Dan Sullivan, is working on a monumental project for the playa this year called Catacomb of Veils. Currently under construction on Pier 70
Arts & Entertainment One Of These Light-Based Art Projects Will Hit The Tenderloin This Fall An effort to make a tough stretch of the Tenderloin more "inviting" has announced the finalists in a project to add light-based art to one street. But given what you know of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Barista Puts All Other Latte Artists To Shame R2D2 FTW! Facebook page link under my bio! #r2d2 #sf #latteart #lattesketch #robot #starwars A video posted by Melaquino (@melaquino) on May 2, 2016 at 9:58am PDT Melannie Aquino doesn't have major
SF News SFMOMA Visitor Trips, Falls Into $82 Million Warhol Painting This is why we can't have nice things. It's been barely two weeks since the expanded SFMOMA reopened to the public, putting on display hundreds of wildly valuable 20th Century artworks from the
Arts & Entertainment Those Weaponized Baseball Bats Placed Around The City Finally Get Explained Strange: @SFPD collects at least 15 bats w/nails found chained to poles across city. Weapon or zombie prop? #abc7now pic.twitter.com/kwz2RZ9Wz9— Katie Utehs (@KatieUtehs) November 27, 2015 Remember those spiked
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Wind-Powered Walking Dutch Sculptures Arriving At The Exploratorium Next Week 'Strandbeests' is Dutch for beach animals because it's the beach that physicist/artist Theo Jansen designed his kinetic sculptures to navigate. "They have to survive the storms, the water, the sand," Jansen tells
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Jason Mecier's New Show Depicts Icons With Their 'Celebrity Trash' Longtime San Francisco art lovers will surely recognize the signature artwork of local legend Jason Mecier, the kaleidoscope-portrait prodigy whose 20-year body of work includes such notables as the Big Bird portrait made
SF News 'No Hipster Art' Graffiti Defaces Mission Mural Bigoted Graffiti Mars New College Hill Mural https://t.co/QQ5mG3ejcJ pic.twitter.com/hYvaiTdNTI— Bernalwood (@Bernalwood) May 5, 2016 In perhaps a call back to the halcyon hipster-filled days of the 2000s,
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Adds Fun Dog Stencils To Duboce Park Local street artist fnnch (pronounced like the bird) has just committed one of his "random acts of art" in Duboce Park, adding fun dog stencils including the Jeff Koons tribute above to the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Peek Inside The Brand New SFMOMA, Opening May 14th The first thing you'll notice when you arrive at the new SFMOMA will be a massive sculpture. The only question is whether it will be by Alexander Calder or Richard Serra. The original
