SF News A 9-Story LED Light Sculpture Will Top The Salesforce Tower A $4 million dollar, four piece integrated light installation that took three years to design will top the Salesforce Tower. Plans for the art piece, designed by 61-year-old Dogpatch artist Jim Campbell, were
Arts & Entertainment Cool New Five-Story Mural Completed Near Mission And Fourth Street A fine break from the week's enervating political news: A rad new mural by noted anonymous muralist Believe In People has just been completed this week, during the break in the rain, on
Arts & Entertainment SF Poster Syndicate Gives Out Anti-Trump Posters In Clarion Alley Enough with the @twitter Come out on the street January 20, 2017 Free #Trump #j20 poster in #ClarionAlley #j20resist pic.twitter.com/BdpskkJb4T— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) December 30, 2016 The SF Poster Syndicate,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Check Out The Most Dazzling Art Works Of The Festival Of Light Your showing-around of holiday guests and visiting tourists can be a little more festive this season with the Illuminate SF Festival of Light, underway now through New Year’s Day. The long winter
Arts & Entertainment 55-Foot Nude Woman Sculpture To Get Inaugural Lighting Near San Leandro BART Tonight Truth is beauty at Burning Man By Marco Cochrane Pic courtesy of @scottlondonpics edited by me #burningman #art #... pic.twitter.com/Df8SrPvwEl— Luis Cochez (@L_uisCochez) November 18, 2014 After some months of
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 'Business Decision' Leads Storage Company To Paint Over Cloud Mural Anyone who's ever taken the Octavia exit off 101 has seen and likely loves the mural gracing the side of Extra Space Storage. The puffy clouds painted on a bright blue sky provide
Arts & Entertainment Artist Jenny Holzer Wins Million-Dollar LED Art Commission For Transit Center Fans of contemporary art will recognize the name of Jenny Holzer, most famous for her word-based electronic artworks and installations, which often have come in the form of streams of digitized text as
Arts & Entertainment Self-Appointed BART 'Artist-In-Residence' Installs Subway Swings, Hopscotch Installing swings in public spaces like on Billy Goat Hill is a time-honored San Francisco pastime. Ironically, the emblem for the SF Rec and Parks Department is a child on just such a
Arts & Entertainment Abandoned Presidio Gun Batteries To Become New Art Installation From People Behind Ai Weiwei Show The organization behind 2014's Ai Weiwei @Large installation at Alcatraz now has its sights set on the long vacant army gun batteries that were part of what was once known as Fort Scott,
SF News Hayes Valley Shepard Fairey Mural Already Tagged With Graffiti In what is either a brilliant exploration of the line between graffiti tagging and public art, or else a typical case of a couple of dudes with too much time and spray paint
Arts & Entertainment As Tony Bennett Statue Unveiled On Nob Hill, Willie Brown Says 'I Hope It's Not Trump!' Ex-Mayor Willie Brown jokes to crowd before unveiling of Tony Bennett statue on Nob Hill: "It better not be Trump!" pic.twitter.com/uNnvgb4FmW— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) August 19, 2016 A statue honoring
SF News Nude Trump Statue Removed, May Get New Home At Lefty O'Doul's The naked likeness of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump surreptitiously installed yesterday in the Castro has found an unlikely champion: Anti-nudity Supervisor Scott Wiener. Wiener, who is known for his successful 2012 campaign
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Couple, Painted To Be Living Mural, Gets Engaged An SF couple participating in a "living mural" by artist Alexa Meade who specializes in painting on people, and their clothing, to turn them into figures in two-dimensional works of art that appear
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Scott Wiener And Other Locals Take (Semi-NSFW) Selfies With The Nude Trump Statue As part of a nationwide artistic effort to disarm a public figure seen by many as dangerous, anarchist group INDECLINE installed in the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza a life-size, nude effigy of presidential
Arts & Entertainment Naked Donald Trump Statue Appears In SF's Castro District, Multiple Other Cities [Semi-NSFW] Naked Donald Trump plop art sculpture in the Castro #SF pic.twitter.com/P3vr7xbVX0— Larry-bob (@larrybobsf) August 18, 2016 A bloated, nude effigy of Donald Trump appeared (where else?) at Jane Warner Plaza
Arts & Entertainment Several People In San Leandro Still Upset About Three-Story Nude Woman Sculpture Truth is beauty at Burning Man By Marco Cochrane Pic courtesy of @scottlondonpics edited by me #burningman #art #... pic.twitter.com/Df8SrPvwEl— Luis Cochez (@L_uisCochez) November 18, 2014 While the Chronicle has
Arts & Entertainment Shepard Fairey Painting Two New Murals In SF This Week The man who famously created the Obama "Hope" poster (and those ubiquitous Andre the Giant stickers), artist Shepard Fairey, is in San Francisco this week executing two new murals as part of a
Arts & Entertainment Say Goodbye To Fifteen-Year-Old Mission Mural, <i>Generator</i>, But It Will Be Replaced A well loved mural that has graced the side of a residential building at Lexington and 18th since 2002 has reached the end of its life. According to a release sent out Monday
Arts & Entertainment More Than 20 Years Of Clarion Alley Murals Now Available In Online Archive In 1992, Mission District artists Aaron Noble and Rigo 23 were residents on Clarion Alley, the 15-foot wide, 560-foot-long throughway running between Mission and Valencia Streets (between 17th and 18th Streets). They didn't
Arts & Entertainment One Of These Light-Based Art Projects Will Hit The Tenderloin This Fall An effort to make a tough stretch of the Tenderloin more "inviting" has announced the finalists in a project to add light-based art to one street. But given what you know of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Head Lands Atop 'Venus,' SF's New Tallest Statue The 92-foot-tall statue that stands, mostly obscured from the street, at the center of the courtyard of the monolithic Trinity Place development at 8th and Market which we just learned about a few
Arts & Entertainment 92-Foot-Tall Stainless Steel 'Venus' Sculpture Coming To Mid-Market's Trinity Place Though he didn't live to see the thing become a reality, longtime SF developer and landlord Angelo Sangiacomo commissioned a grand, gleaming, polished steel statue by artist Lawrence Argent called "Venus" that will
Arts & Entertainment Civic Center's Giant Inflatable Rabbits To Get Round-The-Clock Security When the news broke that five giant light-up rabbits would be coming to San Francisco's Civic Center, there was discussion among the SFist staff on how long it would be before something vile
Arts & Entertainment Five Giant, Light-Up Rabbits Coming To Civic Center Civic Center will soon play host to a massive exterior public art project that, contrary to first impression, is about the cute and cuddly topic of the environmental destruction of our planet. A
