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.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park’s 'Entwined' Still Up Three Weeks After It Was Supposed To Come Down, But Will Come Down Sunday The dazzling LED forest titled Entwined at Peacock Meadow is still up well past its original March 12 removal date, but it’s coming down after a Sunday night closing party with the Extra Action Marching Band.
Arts & Entertainment Meet Your 2023 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Now On Display at the Ferry Building SF’s annual display of giant Valentine’s hearts beats on for its 20th year, and here’s your Hearts of SF class of 2023, which will remain at the Ferry Building through February 28.
Arts & Entertainment New Carol Doda Mural Now On Display Outside North Beach Bistro Bodega Groundbreaking exotic dancer Carol Doda, once known as "the new Twin Peaks of San Francisco," now graces the peaks of North Beach, as the nation’s first topless dancer receives tribute in a new outdoor mural at Columbus Avenue and Filbert Street.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park’s Entwined Sculpture Installation Completely Flooded, Yet Somehow More Dazzling Than Ever The popular LED forest installation 'Entwined' is now engulfed in floodwaters of up to a foot deep, but the resulting lake has created a spectacular mirror-image effect that doubles the amount of visual joy the piece creates.
Arts & Entertainment 10-Foot Floral Butterfly Sculptures Land Across SF In hopes of getting you to flutter about town for Small Business Week, the SF Flower Mart has installed giant butterfly sculptures made of flowers in key retail corridors all over town.
Arts & Entertainment Block-Long Mural By Local Artist Amos Goldbaum Completed on Noe Valley Street A mural on one of SF's Slow Streets — a block of Sanchez Street in Noe Valley between 24th and Elizabeth streets — now has a very tall/long new mural that is best viewed via drone.
Arts & Entertainment Meet The 2021 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Now On Display In Union Square The pandemic scaled back the number of Hearts in SF on the city’s streets, but this year’s hearts are inspiring interpretations of the heartbreaking year we’ve just lived through.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Sized Ox Statues Arrive All Over Town to Celebrate Lunar New Year There’s no Chinese New Year parade, but the Year of the Ox still rocks with 11 life-size ox statues painted by the artists who normally make the parade’s fantastic floats.
Arts & Entertainment Previously Selected Maya Angelou Monument Reinstated, Planned For Civic Center Installation A tedious battle at City Hall over the selection of an appropriate monument to poet, author, and onetime San Francisco resident Maya Angelou has seemingly been resolved, and a monument that was selected by committee over a year ago and then rejected has been reinstated.
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Public and Street Art Works in San Francisco SF’s filled with vibrant public art pieces that invite tourists and locals alike to gawk at them. Arguably, there's no better time than now to see some of our city's best left-of-center outdoor murals, sculptures, and other creative works — albeit while staying six feet away from others.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the 2020 ‘Hearts in San Francisco,’ Which Hit the Streets Today The new annual batch of Hearts in SF sculptures are out for Valentine’s Day, and we caught their unveiling last night to talk with the ‘heartists’ who created this year’s works.
Arts & Entertainment BiP Unveils Provocative Kid-With-Gun Mural on Franklin Street Three months after he began with a mysterious pair of child's eyes, muralist BiP (Believe in People) has finished his fourth mural in San Francisco. And it's a conversation piece to be sure.
Arts & Entertainment Controversial Protester Sculpture By I-80 In Berkeley To Be Removed A couple of large sculptures installed by the pedestrian bridge at University Avenue over the I-80 freeway are set for removal — not because they're ugly, but because the Berkeley arts commission has said they aren't weathering well and they will cost too much repair and maintain.
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 Muralist 'Believe In People' Completes Brain Flower Piece In Tenderloin UPDATE 2 downtown San Francisco! if you see me in the bottom right red circle you can imagine what it feels like to have these golden plants towering over me as I work.
Arts & Entertainment Photo(s) Du Jour: The Stud's Rad New Mural The Stud is looking especially spiffy this Pride week thanks to this new mural by Xara Thustra, created with collaborators Monica Caniao and You Go Girl. The vibrant work wraps around all three
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Juanita More! Kicks Off Pride 2017 With Three New Murals In SF "2017 marks my 25th year in drag in San Francisco, so these murals are very special to me," says local drag icon Juanita More!, a performer and fundraiser who is equally at home
