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 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 '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 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 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 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 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 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
