Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: SF Photobook Fair, Annie Sprinkle’s ‘Bazoombas,’ and Local Indigenous-Owned Businesses Fundraiser for Madrone’s Oscar Myers; local Indigenous-owned businesses; processing trauma through surfing; learning about SF via Muni; downtown alley transformation; Photobook Fair weekend; Annie Sprinkle celebrates Earth and boobs; lavender and bees; SF’s 55-acre garden.
Arts & Entertainment Mermaid Sculpture Unveiled Next to Ferry Building as Part of New 'Waterfront Art Walk' Another piece of public art has come to the Embarcadero this week, with the official unveiling Tuesday of 'Coralee,' a larger-than-life-size mermaid made of metal and other materials, by artist Dana Albany.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Muttville's New HQ, Tactile Maps, Pavement Plants, ‘Fairyland’ Flick, and a Hidden Mansion In this week's Field Notes: from a chic Mission dog shelter and a mansion under the Bay Bridge to pavement plants and dahlias in Oakland. Also, tactile SF maps, Obon in the park, queer family stories, cat zines, and a Sacramento ghost town.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Monday Night’s Lighting of the 100-Foot-Long Sea Serpent Sculpture In Golden Gate Park The largest public art installation in Golden Gate Park history was lit up and started breathing bubbles Monday night, as the 100-foot-long sea dragon sculpture called Naga now rules the roost over Rainbow Falls Pond.
Arts & Entertainment Illuminated, 100-Foot-Long Sea Creature Installation Coming to Golden Gate Park What's being billed as the largest piece of public art ever to be installed in the history of Golden Gate Park is going to debut later this month along JFK Promenade.
Arts & Entertainment 95-Year-Old Artist Behind Often Reviled Embarcadero Plaza Fountain Flies to SF to 'Save' It The sculptor behind the 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain, which won't ever be called the most popular piece of public art in SF, took it upon himself to fly here this week and call for a preemptive hearing on its fate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District’s Beauty Bar Reopening Soon, Getting Its Mural Fully Restored We’re looking at a June reopening date for Mission Street’s beloved kitschy nightclub Beauty Bar, which will be under new ownership, and it’s getting its popular mural redone by the same artist who originally painted it ten years ago.
Arts & Entertainment At Least Downtown SF Doesn’t Have A Giant Marilyn Monroe Upskirt Statue Like Palm Springs Did Commentary surrounding the newly installed 'R-Evolution' sculpture brings to mind the heated battle over a Marilyn Monroe upskirt statue in Palm Springs last year. In both cases, many folks have wondered, “Who asked for this?”
Arts & Entertainment That 45-Foot-Tall Nude Woman Statue Is Coming to SF After All, and Will Be at Embarcadero Plaza Union Square was forced to disrobe its plans for placing a 45-foot-tall Burning Man statue of a nude woman there, but the statue has found a different home at the Embarcadero, and will have its unveiling on April 10.
Arts & Entertainment Ruth Asawa's Arts Education Advocacy, 'San Francisco Fountain', Honored This Week The city of San Francisco declared February 12th Ruth Asawa Day back in 1982, Asawa's 'San Francisco Fountain' turned 52 yesterday, and tickets to SFMOMA's Ruth Asawa Retrospective go on sale soon.
Arts & Entertainment Like It or Not, 45-Foot Statue of Nude Woman Coming to Union Square Shortly Union Square retailers and tourism officials are hoping that a Burning Man statue of a 45-foot-tall nude woman is going to rev up the beleaguered district’s shopping scene, and we’ll see if they’re right when it goes up in early February.
Arts & Entertainment Reinstallation of 'The Bay Lights' Has Begun on the Bay Bridge, Full Display Back This Winter Work to reinstall a new set of even-more-weatherproof LEDs for the 'Bay Lights' art piece on the Bay Bridge — the third time that the work has been installed since its initial debut in March 2013 — is now underway.
Arts & Entertainment Lights Out: LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Sadly Not Returning to Golden Gate Park for the Holidays This Year An LED letdown for fans of dazzling holiday lights, as the popular LED forest installation “Entwined” will not be returning to Golden Gate Park for the holiday season in 2024, though there’s still a big Holiday Tree Lighting in the park Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment New 2,000-Pound Star Sculpture From Occasional Burning Man Artists Arrives In Mint Plaza A new star-shaped, gold-painted sculpture, which will cast entrancing shadows from a light within it at night, has just been installed at Mint Plaza.
Arts & Entertainment Sculpture Garden Comes to Transamerica Pyramid, Featuring Famous French Sculptors When the Transamerica Pyramid reopens to the public next week after a renovation, it will have some new, publicly accessible, outdoor art from a pair of renowned French sculptors.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Nude Female Figure Likely to Be Installed In Union Square This Winter A towering, illuminated sculpture of a nude woman, one of a series of three created for Burning Man by artist Marco Cochrane in the last decade, is set to make an appearance in SF's Union Square, pending final approvals.
Arts & Entertainment Giant New Statue of Woman in Jogging Gear Goes Up Along Embarcadero There’s a towering new statue between the Ferry Building and Pier 1 of a nine-foot-tall woman dressed in jogging apparel, and the work “As Sounds Turn to Noise" will be there on loan from a gallery in Los Angeles for the next six months.
Arts & Entertainment Huge New Amos Goldbaum Mural Now Adorns 13 Panels at Bernal Heights Street Garden The latest large-scale but insanely intricate work by SF muralist Amos Goldbaum jazzes up a little-known yet gorgeous public garden walkway in Bernal Heights.
Arts & Entertainment Meet Your 2024 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Including One That Once Belonged to Robin Williams SF’s annual display of huge Valentine’s hearts beats on for its 20th anniversary, and this year’s batch includes one that used to belong to Robin Williams. You can see them at the Ferry Building through February 29.
Arts & Entertainment The LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Has Now Sprouted Up at Civic Center, Too ‘Entwined’ is still shining nightly at Golden Gate Park, but some of its pieces have just branched out to UN Plaza, and these shrub sculptures will be lit up there every night for up to two years.
Arts & Entertainment The ‘Hearts in SF’ Are Already Out, And One of Them Is Made of 88,000 LEGO Bricks Your 2024 Hearts in SF are out a little early this year at the Ferry Building, and one of the lovely creations is constructed of 88,748 LEGO bricks.
Arts & Entertainment Laser Cannons Come On Again, Shining Up Market and Out Past Ocean Beach The lasers came on again up Market Street Monday night, beaming up from the Ferry Building toward Twin Peaks and beyond, and this time it was a multi-color, pastel display.
Arts & Entertainment LED Forest Installation 'Entwined' Returns to Golden Gate Park December 7th — With a Big New Twist The four-year-old instant-classic LED art installation 'Entwined' will return next month for its longest run yet in Golden Gate Park, but at a different location and with a massive new addition. We've got behind-the-scenes photos of the colorful magic that’s in the works.
Arts & Entertainment Laser Beams to Shine Up Market Street Again During APEC Summit Twelve laser beams are going to shine up much of the length of Market Street next week like they did over the past two Pride Weekends — but they probably won't just be rainbow-colored this time.
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.
