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.
Arts & Entertainment Sutro Tower Will Have Red, White and Blue Lasers Shooting Through It This Week In honor of the Fourth of July, and commemorating the 50th birthday of San Francisco's Sutro Tower, there will be lasers shooting up through the radio tower for five nights this week.
Arts & Entertainment NY Artist Says Market Street Rainbow Laser Light Installation Is Plagiarized Yvette Mattern, a visual artist, created a rainbow laser installation over a decade ago in New York City, and she has brought it to over a dozen cities since then. She says that Illuminate the Arts plagiarized her work in creating their similar Market Street installation for Pride last year.
Arts & Entertainment Yerba Buena Island Gets Nice 69-Foot-Tall Sundial Sculpture That’s Visible From SF The installation of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s new sculpture "Point of Infinity” was completed this week on a hilltop on Yerba Buena Island, and it will act as a sundial so tall that the Federal Aviation Administration had to sign off on it.
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Lasers Up Market Street to Return for Pride Weekend The pink triangle atop Twin Peaks may be going back to analog this year, but the laser-beam rainbow up Market Street will return for Pride Weekend, and maybe you'll even be able to see it if the fog cooperates.
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Adobe HQ Gets New LED Semaphore Puzzle, and Another Contest To Solve It A new LED semaphore brain-teaser is being projected atop Adobe’s San Jose Almaden Tower headquarters, and you can win free Adobe software for solving it, though it is unlikely to be solved for many years.
Arts & Entertainment That Rogue Butterfly Statue Has Been Placed In Storage, Arts Commission ‘Evaluating Options’ For Its Future That unauthorized but very well-designed butterfly statue that went up in Golden Gate Park last month could still have a future, though the SF Arts Commission says the statue would not “last long in an outdoor environment.”
Arts & Entertainment Guest Artist Creates Bird-Like Projections for Salesforce Tower, to Call Attention to Migratory Seabirds San Francisco artist Therese Lahaie has a new work that will be visible from a wide swath of the city this weekend, and starting Thursday night, on the illuminated crown of Salesforce Tower.
Arts & Entertainment Ten Years After It Was Commissioned, 102-Foot Twisting Sculpture Installed at 4th Street Central Subway Station A dramatic, stainless steel tendril, seemingly growing out of the ground and reaching toward the sky, was just installed Sunday morning in the plaza outside Moscone Station, at Fourth and Clementina streets.
