Arts & Entertainment Scenes And Sounds From The First Weekend Of 'Flower Piano' In Golden Gate Park Duke Ellington's "Take the A-Train." Pianist David Owen. A bit of Burning Man-style delight and randomness came to the SF Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park this past weekend via the first few
SF News Good News: Bay Lights 10-Year Maintenance Deal Approved We knew that most of the funding was in place to re-install the Bay Lights in a more permanent fashion, in order to have a lifespan of at least 10 years, but today
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Takes Shape Again, Gets Its 37-Foot Spire Today In Hayes Valley New temple being constructed in Patricia's Green #BurningMan #HayesValley pic.twitter.com/HOnxuRTLmX— Dave Lester (@davelester) June 22, 2015 As we mentioned the other week, artist David Best is building a brand new
Arts & Entertainment Video: Cool Time-Lapse Shows Two Years Of Construction At SFMOMA It's been just over two years since the SFMOMA closed for a massive construction/remodeling/rebuilding project, and unless you count those pop-up events they've been doing here and there, SF has basically
Arts & Entertainment Local Tech Journalists Mystified To Receive Anonymous Book Satirizing Tech A cohort of around 12 San Francisco journalists, most of them known for reporting on tech, have received a mysterious book of tech satire full of "tweets" reimagined in elaborate, handwriting-like typeset. The
Arts & Entertainment Is That '94110' Series Just An Elaborate Prank? The local media, ourselves included, have been agape at the tech-absurdity and apparent shallowness of the proposed TV series about the Mission titled 94110 that put out an open casting call back in
Arts & Entertainment 55-Foot Burning Man Sculpture To Arrive At San Leandro BART Station While sculptor Marco Cochrane is at work on his third monumental female figure for Burning Man 2015, one of his earlier works just landed a new, permanent home. The City of San Leandro
Arts & Entertainment Look Out For This Enormous, Functioning Typewriter At Burning Man Boston-based artist Jason Turgeon, along with a team that includes contractors, a mechanical engineer, and an architect, are at work constructing a giant replica of a 1927 Underwood Portable Typewriter that they plan
Arts & Entertainment This Artist You've Never Heard of Is Livening Walls All Over SF by Renée Padgham You can’t miss him. He stands a foot above everyone, with sandy blonde hair, paint speckled jeans, and a calmness to his demeanor only acquired through years of intense
Arts & Entertainment Aeolian Ride Brings 'Inflatable' Cyclists Back To The Bay Area This Week The first and only time the Aeolian Ride came to San Francisco was way back in 2004 when SFist was but a fledgling operation, and when the performance-art-meets-bikeride event was first started. In
Arts & Entertainment 40-Foot Burning Man Sculpture Getting Removed From Treasure Island According to a Facebook event to bid farewell to the 40-foot tall dancing woman sculpture that's graced Treasure Island since 2011, a previous de-rusting didn't fully protect the piece from sea breezes, and
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Story Behind Those Creepy Door Hangers (It's An Art Project) Yesterday Eve posted a query about these strange, metallic-shiny door hangers that have recently been appearing around the Mission, all bearing the Miranda Rights warning, "Anything you say can and will be used
SF News Couple Unwittingly Swipes $5500 Artwork From North Beach Alley Everyone knows the laws of the street score, right? If you see something — furniture, books, art, even clothing — sitting unattended out by the curb and it's not someone moving or a garage sale,
Arts & Entertainment Rex Ray's Former Lofts Up For Sale, Could Include Art And Furniture The late artist Rex Ray, who passed away in February at age 58, purchased two lofts in the Allied Box Factory building (2169 Folsom near 18th) back in 2001, one of which was
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Public Art and Street Art Works in San Francisco Ever since Diego Rivera first took a brush to our fair city's walls in the 1930s, San Francisco has served as a global hot spot for for outdoor public art. Here we take
Arts & Entertainment Artists Are Getting Paid To Use SF's Recyclables To Make Pretty Things As part of Recology's Artist In Residence program, San Francisco artists apply for residencies in which they get studio space at Recology's Solid Waste Transfer facility near Candlestick Park, and full scavenging privileges
Arts & Entertainment Video: All About The Rad Video Art Scene In SF In The 1970s KQED and SFMOMA on the Go have just made this great documentary short about pioneering video artists in San Francisco in the 1970s people like Skip Sweeney, who started making abstract "feedback" videos;
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA's Giant Richard Serra Sculpture Blocking Traffic On Howard Street Large-scale sculptor Richard Serra is known for his enormous COR-TEN steel installations big enough for dozens of people to walk through and stand within. And now, one of his pieces from the last
Arts & Entertainment Rex Ray, SF-Based Artist And Designer, Dies At 58 Rex Ray, the San Francisco-based fine artist and graphic designer known for large-scale, brightly colored, 1960s-inspired, often psychedelic paintings, has succumbed today after a long battle with cancer. Ray, who'd been active on
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rad New Interactive Art Installation At Urban Putt Urban Putt — the Mission's intricate indoor mini-golf course complete with a bar and restaurant that opened last year — has a new trick up its sleeve. This installation by Dan Rosenfeld called Sleepwalkers is
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Someone Is Bringing A 747 Jumbo Jet To Burning Man This Year The largest art car ever is in the works for Burning Man 2015. Reddit and the message boards began popping this month with the news that an ambitious crew of Burners was taking
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Psychedelic Haight Light Sculpture Dubbed 'The Hippie Trap' A guy in the Haight hung this piece of LED-based artwork outside his building in December, just before Christmas, and one of his neighbors jokingly told him they had nicknamed it The Hippie
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Divisadero Time-Lapse Artist Sadie Mellerio has installed this site-specific video installation for the window of hip kid magnet Madrone Art Bar which shows a time-lapse of the view outside Madrone Art Bar, at Divisadero and
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Backers Reach Funding Goal To Keep The Lights On After Next Year Fears that the Bay Lights might permanently go dark after March have been allayed, and the foundation behind the light sculpture, Illuminate the Arts, has announced that they've reached their $4 million fundraising
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Give Green Light To 'LightRail' Art Project Up Market Street At today's Board of Supervisors meeting, the Supes unanimously approved a proposal by the foundation that brought us The Bay Lights to install another light-based art project, this one up Market Street from
