Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Critic John King Hates The Bay Lights, Says They Should Go Away Already Maybe I should commend architecture critic John King for being brave and confident enough in his own aesthetic opinion to come out denouncing the Bay Lights as underwhelming and unworthy of future funding.
Arts & Entertainment The 15 Best Art Galleries In The Bay Area, According To Art Practical by Patricia Maloney For any art-curious or art-loving individual, the Bay Area offers a wealth of options to see beautiful, thought provoking, and groundbreaking art. The region that spurs on the most innovative
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Lights Will Disappear For Good In March Unless Backers Raise $4 Million As we reported back in June, the non-profit that's behind the installation and maintenance of the Bay Lights LED installation on the Bay Bridge are gunning to keep the lights up after their
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: City At Large Photos Of SF What are you up to Saturday afternoon? If you're not sure yet, we've got the answer: the opening of City At Large: Photographs of San Francisco. Twelve photographers, many of whom you've probably
SF News De Young Museum's 'Neptune's Daughter' Statue Loses, Regains An Arm "Neptune's Daughter," a bronze sculpture that stood prominently in the Garden of Enchantment to the right of the de Young Museum until 2011, was vandalized that year and quietly removed from the garden
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Amy Poehler As Art Snob Some of you who watch a lot of TV have likely seen this already, but in her series of funny spots for Old Navy, this has to be Amy Poehler's best. Watch in
Arts & Entertainment Oakland-Based Artists Seek Donors For 'Gay Men Draw Vaginas' Book A pair of Oakland-based artists/humorists have been setting up vagina-drawing booths over the past two years, sometimes making appearances at Gay Beach in Dolores Park and in the Castro, asking gay men
Arts & Entertainment The 6 Coolest Installations You'll See At Burning Man 2014 For those of you getting psyched and doing your Muppet-fur boot shopping for the playa, we have a preview of a few of the cool large-scale sculptures you'll be seeing out there at
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Night Light Multimedia Garden Party At SOMArts The weirdest, wildest art show of the year is happening this Saturday, July 19, at SOMArts — and organizers say it's definitely going to sell out. In its fourth year, the Night Light Multimedia
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Quentin Vs. Coen Your college boyfriend would be totally psyched to hear that Spoke Art's Quentin vs. Coen, an art show tribute to the films of Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, has finally made its way
Arts & Entertainment Backers Seek To Keep Bay Lights Up For 12 More Years, Install LED Sculpture Up Market Street Too Illuminate the Arts, the organization that raised the funds to install The Bay Lights, held an event Wednesday night to mark the launch of a new fundraising drive with Crowdtilt, with a goal
Arts & Entertainment Check Out These Beautiful Aerial Photos Of Andres Amador's Sand Art At Ocean Beach (And Elsewhere) "People are really enthralled that I would do something that's destined to wash away," says earthscape artist Andres Amador. "That really strikes a chord with people. Because really, truly, that's the story of
Arts & Entertainment Darwin Bell's 'Urban Fragments' Captures A Colorful City Up Close Those of you regular to SFist are more than familiar with the bold, quiet work of Darwin Bell. The local photographer, who first made a name for himself when he famously used Polaroids
Arts & Entertainment Nicholas Cage To Be Subject Of Local Hipster Art Show Academy Award-winning actor turned sellout turned meme Nicholas Cage has inspired one local would-be curator to do a whole show around him. As the Weekly is reporting, "DJ and event planner" Ezra Croft
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Portrait Exhibit Opens Last week, SFist showed you Troy Holden's Neighbors, the San Francisco-based photographer's breakthrough portraiture series. Working with the North of Market-Tenderloin Community Benefit District, he snapped 50 portraits of individuals and families at
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SoMa Art Installation Boasts 12 One-Ton Pianos Defenestration, Brian Goggin's longstanding "falling furniture" art installation at Sixth and Howard Streets, may be coming down, but the artist is busy raising another new piece of architectural public art. On Feb. 23,
SF News UC Berkeley J-School And Genentech Partner For Something Totally Ethical No problem here, folks. Just Mission Local (a popular neighborhood blog run by the UC system's graduate school of journalism at UC Berkeley) and Genentech getting cozy to bedazzle private buses. Why? Because
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Watch New 'Real World: SF' Cast Member's Food Orgy Art Video And now, an art video from Ari Fitz, cast member on the upcoming final season of The Real World (which, if you haven't heard, will be set in San Francisco). The PR person
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reveals New Grand Stair Design For Old Building Today SFMOMA unveiled some new designs from Snohetta, the architecture firm that designed their big new white addition that's just barely under construction, to reconfigure the main staircase in the original Third Street
Arts & Entertainment Ai Weiwei Planning Major Art Exhibition On Alcatraz Celebrated Chinese artist, architect, and outspoken political dissident Ai Weiwei hopes to put his next major art exhibition on Alcatraz Island. Ai is currently working with National Park Service, the Golden Gate National
Arts & Entertainment Why Don't You Already Own This One-Of-A-Kind Penis Table? [NSFW] For serious collectors of hand-carved phallic items, this "WOW" table made from one massive, hard piece of driftwood that recently turned up on Craigslist may be the conversation piece you've been searching for.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights to Play All Night Starting November 1 The awesome LED installation on the Bay Bridge, The Bay Lights, is getting a nightly performance extension of several hours. Thanks to a grant from nonprofit group Illuminate the Arts, which produced the
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Hibernia Bank Get Graffiti Bombed Yesterday's Photo du Jour, shot by Bhautik Joshi, shows some choice or deplorable graffiti, depending on your views, atop the Hibernia Bank building at Jones and Market. Now here's video showing how graffiti
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At SFMOMA... Major butt lift for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Here's a jarring view of the museum's backside taken today from inside the construction site.If you recall, SFMOMA closed in June
