Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Jonathan Borofsky's 'Human Structures' "Human Structures" by Jonathan Borofsky at 555 Mission, shot by Darwin Bell.
Arts & Entertainment Do This Saturday: Brandon Bird At The Gauntlet Gallery Want some surrealist pop culture with your serving of art this weekend? Look no further than "The Art of The Astonishing World of Art”, a solo show by artist Brandon Bird at the
Arts & Entertainment And Now, Hunter Pence And Pablo Sandoval Ballroom Dancing Forever Sometimes there are a lot of things to be sad about around here: the Giants' season has come undone, the Lusty Lady is closing, Yosemite is on fire, we still can't afford dinner
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Doggie Diner Heads Covered In Colorful Crochet New York City artist Olek stopped by San Francisco this week to blanket her signature crochet over the Doggie Diner heads. Here, outside the Phoenix Hotel in the Tenderloin, are the iconic pooches
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noted Artist To Crochet Over Doggie Diner Heads Oh but yes. This is our kind of art. New York City-based Polish artist Olek will arrive in the City tonight to wrap the Doggie Diner Heads in crochet. Because why not? The
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Duboce Triangle Utility Box Turned Into Utopic Optical Illusion Well, color us astounded. Noted artist Mona Caron, of the Duboce Bikeway Mural behind the Safeway on Market Street, created this cool trompe l'oeil on Church and Duboce. Castro Biscuit reports, "Caron was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Palace Hotel Gets Its Pied Piper Back For a week or so last March many here in S.F. were wringing their hands over the news that the new owners of The Palace Hotel, Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts, were going
Arts & Entertainment Official Outside Lands Poster Tips Hat To SF's Groovy, Drug-Addled Past In a choice move, Outside Lands commissioned Peter Max, the German illustrator known for his use of psychedelic shapes, to create the official Outside Lands 2013 poster. And here it is, in all
Arts & Entertainment Fecal Matter Matters: 'Poop Is Art And Vice Versa' At Public Works According to Freud, a child's delight in defecation (i.e., abjection) stems from his or her pleasure in creating something of his or her own. And while our personal beliefs in postmodernist revisions
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Diebenkorn At The De Young Out-of-towners and guide books like to euphemistically describe San Francisco as "colorful". By that they might mean perverse, strange, demented or just a little more intense than your typical stopover in Des Moines.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Artist Recreating Bawdy Ceiling Mural at New Gold Dust Lounge Local artist Layla Skramstad is recreating a half-century-old mural for the ceiling of the recently relocated Gold Dust Lounge, and it's full of naked ladies. The bar had to give up its well
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Watch Music Videos 20 Bands Raced To Make Under 48 Hours ( By Angela Zimmerman) Consider this challenge: This past weekend, 20 filmmakers and 20 bands set out on a mad-dash throughout San Francisco and beyond to create music videos for Music Video Race. They
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: [Freespace] Art Opening Those crazy kids! What will they think of next? Leasing a 14,000 sq ft building for $1 for the month of June? Done and done. This month, a group of community organizers,
Arts & Entertainment Long Lines At SFMOMA Before Museum Shuts Down Until 2016 [UPDATE] UPDATE 5:00 pm: Lines are gone. You have about one hour to hit the museum before it closes!! If you plan on getting into SFMOMA today before it closes at 6 pm
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Mayor Moscone Portrait of George (Moscone) (1981) by Robert Arneson (1930-1992) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Adam Fagen.
Arts & Entertainment Starting Today, SFMOMA Kicks Off Free 4-Day Countdown Celebration It's the end of SFMOMA as we know it, but the museum isn't going dark without first unleashing a four-day celebration of general revelry. Starting today at 10 a.m. and ending Sunday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Glorious Guy Fieri Balloon Art Features Mandals, Love "U gotta dig this balloon art that a fan made for me," beams Guy Fieri over a piece of art he received during an appearance at an Atlanta book store. And dig we
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Academy of Art's Spring Show The scrappy kids at the Academy of Art are putting their semester's work on display starting tonight at the Palace of Fine Arts for the 2013 Spring Show. There's an opening reception tonight
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Babel Of The Millennium Gu Wenda's united nations--babel of the millennium by Catherine Sparacino.
Arts & Entertainment We Want To Giant Rubber Duck To Come To The Bay Area! This inarguably lovable, 54-foot-tall rubber duckie has made its way around the world for years. The brainchild of 30-year-old Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the inflatable duck will be on display in Hong Kong
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cakes Based Off Of Modern Art At SF MOMA Above, a new Blue Bottle dessert based on Garry Winogrand's photograph "Kerrville, Texas, 1977" can be found at SF MOMA. Also of note? This sweet treat inspired by Christian Marclay's The Clock. Behold:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Eric Ross' Award-Winning Pizza Acrobatics This past weekend in Las Vegas at the annual World Pizza Games, Eric Ross from Tony's Coal Fired Pizza & Slice House took top honors. Ross won first place in his division. He
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: S.F. Symphony Musicians Go On Strike After a rather tone-deaf protest at San Francisco City Hall yesterday -- where, while donning L.A. Dodgers hats, a quartet performed in front of a Giants cap on the dirty floor --
Arts & Entertainment Go See It: Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA Confession: it's taken us a while truly appreciate the subtleties of black and white photography. After spending formative years getting our eyes blasted out by big Expressionist paintings and modernist colorscapes, photos can
