Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Coming Back On? Organizers Say They've Almost Hit Their $11 Million Goal The arts organization behind the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights project says they’re just $250,000 shy of the $11 million they need to turn those lights back on — and this time, cover both sides of the bridge with lights.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Seeking $2M More In Funding, Nonprofit Founder Confident Lights Will Return The Bay Lights, which went dark on the Bay Bridge in March a few years earlier than was promised due to corrosion and deterioration of the LEDs, will return again according to the founder of Illuminate, the nonprofit behind the original installation.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Lights Came Back On Sunday Due to 'Glitch' The Bay Lights were back on Sunday night due to a "glitch"; there were two fatal shootings in Oakland over the weekend; and President Biden gave a brief televised statement urging everyone to stop panicking about banks.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge Scheduled To Be Shut Off Sunday Night They’re scheduled to hit the kill switch on the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights at 8 p.m. sharp Sunday night, as a private fundraiser donor drive for another $11 million has apparently come up short.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Artist Leo Villareal Is Lighting Up 15 Bridges In London The latest project from the Burning Man artist turned public-art guru Leo Villareal is called "Illuminated River," and it features different lighting schemes on each of the 15 bridges that cross the Thames in London.
Arts & Entertainment Group Behind Bay Lights Is Fundraising For Trippy Conservatory Of Flowers Light Projections Entering the Conservatory of Flowers gives Ben Davis butterflies. "You step inside, and you're filled with awe a million times over," he tells SFist. As the founder of the nonprofit arts group behind
Arts & Entertainment 'LightRail' LED Installation On Market Street Begins Raising Funds The cool, transit-centric light installation unveiled two years ago by the non-profit behind the Bay Lights remains a project in motion, though an initial plan to break ground on it in 2016 appears
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 Super Bowl City Opens With Fireworks, Booze, Protests, And Many Selfies Super Bowl City, the “Folsom Street Fair for heteronormative jocks” free-to-the-public street party celebrating Super Bowl 50, opened on Saturday with major fireworks, the Bay Lights relighting, a Chris Isaak show, and tens
Arts & Entertainment Let There Be Bay Lights: Bridge Installation To Return In A Flash San Francisco may not be known as the City of Lights (thanks, fog) but January 30th will elevate our status in the illumination department when 25,000 LEDs return to the Bay Bridge.
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 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 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
SF News When The Lights Go Down In The City: A Few Great Bay Lights Videos The time has come. The installation of 25,000 individual LEDs devised by artist Leo Villareal and known simply as The Bay Lights — a project which has shone each night since March 2013
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
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 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 New Burning Man Art Comes To Pier 14 On July 21, just after sunset, a new interactive, LED sculpture will light up Pier 14. The 28 x 40 foot stainless steel installation is a modified version of piece that premiered at
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
SF News Regarding The Cool LED Light System On The New Bay Bridge Span The Bay Lights have gotten plenty of attention on the western span of the Bay Bridge, but the same engineer who got those installed worked on the high-tech, permanent lighting system on the
SF News Millionaire Gives $1.5 Million to Cover Bay Lights Shortfall; Broken LEDs Getting Fixed WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg just ponied up a whopping $1.5 million to cover the remaining budget shortfall for the $8 million Bay Lights installation. Mullenweg had already donated $100,000 to artist
Arts & Entertainment 7 Photos (And One Video) Of The World's Largest LED Light Sculpture Over The San Francisco Bay Last night, artist Leo Villareal officially flipped the switch on the Bay Lights — the world's largest LED light sculpture, containing 25,000 individual LEDs stretching 1.8 miles long and 500 feet high
Arts & Entertainment It's Raining Out, But You Can Stay Dry And Watch The Bay Lights Right Here Is this rain putting a damper on your Bay Lights viewing experience? Couldn't make it out to the Embarcadero? Just want to stay indoors at the bar and watch on your iPad? You
