SF News Legion Of Honor, de Young Museums Hike Adult Ticket Prices By 50% While a move approved yesterday to increase ticket prices by 50 percent at two premiere San Francisco museums might be seen as something of an art heist, the de Young Museum and Legion
SF News Video: Guy Free-Climbs SFMOMA Facade People just can't wait for our neighbor, @sfmoma to re-open. - John, Visual Arts A video posted by YBCA (@ybca) on Apr 11, 2016 at 1:26pm PDT Man, people are really excited
Arts & Entertainment Civic Center's Giant Inflatable Rabbits To Get Round-The-Clock Security When the news broke that five giant light-up rabbits would be coming to San Francisco's Civic Center, there was discussion among the SFist staff on how long it would be before something vile
Arts & Entertainment Look For Those Giant Inflatable Rabbits At Civic Center Starting Today #Intrude @CivicCenterPlaza @#.@SFAC .@mayoredlee .@sfrecpark .@sfoewd pic.twitter.com/NdBwkOMvIi— SF Arts Commission (@SFAC) April 4, 2016 The rabbits are finally here, and they're coming for you, and you, and you. Well, sort
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Tickets On Sale Wednesday For May 14th Opening On May 14, after a three-year expansion project, SFMOMA will have its big moment in one of the SF art world openings that led the Wall Street Journal to declare a general San
Arts & Entertainment Five Giant, Light-Up Rabbits Coming To Civic Center Civic Center will soon play host to a massive exterior public art project that, contrary to first impression, is about the cute and cuddly topic of the environmental destruction of our planet. A
Arts & Entertainment Openings Of Minnesota Street Project, SFMOMA Cited As Marking Fresh Art World 'Moment' In SF Last weekend marked the official opening festivities for The Minnesota Street Project in Dogpatch a new 100,000-square-foot multi-use space started by local entrepreneurs and collectors Deborah and Andy Rappaport as a kind
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Makes Portrait Of Donald Trump Spewing Actual Bull Manure Hayward-based artist Andrew Kong Knight was painting a portrait of Donald Trump (née Drumpf) when he decided to add a little something extra: actual bull manure he found in the Hayward hills. Kong
Arts & Entertainment Artist Protests Facebook Ban After She Reposts 'Baby Dick' Trump Painting Artist Illma Gore has been, like many of us in the anti-Trump camp, amused by the ongoing joke about Donald Trump's penis size spurned in part by John Oliver dredging up an old
Arts & Entertainment 40-Foot Burning Man Sculpture Formerly On Treasure Island Arrives On Las Vegas Strip Admirers of the female form in Las Vegas, Nevada will have something new to ogle in "Bliss Dance," a 40-foot tall sculpture wrought from 3,000 feet of stainless steel cable by Marco
Arts & Entertainment 'Buckyball' From Bay Lights Artist Arrives At Exploratorium Art world luminary Leo Villareal is having another Bay Area moment. See: The reprise of his now-permanent Bay Lights thanks to $4 million from Caltrans and Illuminate the Arts, a solo exhibition at
Arts & Entertainment Fecal Face Dot Gallery Set To Close At Month's End Fecal Face Dot Gallery will close following the conclusion of its Mike Giant show — which opens tonight. The gallery's final day open to the public is set for February 26. "Yes, we are
Arts & Entertainment Here's What To Expect When SFMOMA Finally, Finally Reopens In May SFMOMA is finally getting close to reopening with its brand new expansion, after a three-year hiatus that had us all wishing we had our only really major museum back. (The deYoung, Legion of
Arts & Entertainment Look Out, Uber: SF's Hottest New Unicorn Has Priceless Valuation Even those who subscribe to tech luminary Marc Benioff's view that “unicorn mania.. [is] dangerous for our Silicon Valley economy," a warning he issued in a recent interview, are sure to marvel at
SF News Flax Can't Make SF Work Anymore, Will Move To Oakland Embodying the story of the artist that can't afford San Francisco but finds refuge in Oakland, owners of Market Street's Flax Art & Design have announced that the business will move to downtown
Arts & Entertainment You'll See The Bay Lights Back On This Week For Testing Ahead Of January Unveiling Fans of the Bay Lights, rejoice! and detractors like the Chron's John King, shake your fists in the air for this week, artist Leo Villareal will be camped out on Pier 14 after
Arts & Entertainment Madrone Art Bar Apologizes After Crazed 'Critic Santa' Bounced From Bar All was not visions of sugar plums this past weekend at Madrone Art Bar, as the watering hole was forced to eject a belligerent Santa for berating clientele with condescending art critiques directed
Arts & Entertainment Famed Cat Painting (From San Francisco) Sells For $826,000 A 19th Century painting of 42 cats, well known to art-loving cat lovers, has been sold at auction at Sotheby's to a new cat lover for $826,000. As the San Francisco Chronicle
SF News Supervisor Wiener Goes After Serial Code Violators Like (Ahem) Academy of Art Supervisor Scott Wiener yesterday announced his intention to propose new legislation making it easier for the city to go after "serial code violators," specifically mentioning The Academy of Art University as a potential
SF News Here's The Person Of Interest In The Oakland Muralist Slaying Oakland Police have identified a person of interest in last week's slaying of 27-year-old artist Antonio Ramos at least they have a photo of him from surveillance video anyway. The slender, twentysomething black
Arts & Entertainment Huzzah! Bay Lights Getting Reinstalled This Week Time flies, right? It seems like just yesterday we were shedding tears over the Bay Lights being shut off on the Bay Bridge after two years of dancing LED splendor. But that was
SF News More 'No Tech Zone' Signs Appear; Perpetrator Revealed As Artist Who Wants Us To Get Off Our Phones Though many jumped on the notion that that "No Tech Zone" sign that showed up in Alamo Square two weeks ago purporting to levy a $300 fine for people caught using mobile devices
Arts & Entertainment What Do You Think Of These Giant Light Sculptures Planned For Van Ness? It's officially been game on for the Van Ness Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project since 2013, when the plan to construct a separated-from-traffic set of lanes for Golden Gate Transit and Muni's 49
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: No, Someone is Not Bringing a 747 Jumbo Jet to Burning Man This Year You may have read it on Reddit, and SFist has tracked down the organizers and confirmed that the rumors are true. The 747 jumbo jet that was promised to appear at Burning Man
Arts & Entertainment Video: Looking Back On '90s Mission School Artist Margaret Kilgallen A piece in this week's New Yorker tells the powerful story of San Francisco artists Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, and Clare Rojas a love triangle of sorts with a tragic twist in that
