Arts & Entertainment What Do You Think Of These Giant Light Sculptures Planned For Van Ness? It's officially been game on for the Van Ness Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project since 2013, when the plan to construct a separated-from-traffic set of lanes for Golden Gate Transit and Muni's 49
Arts & Entertainment Play One Of 12 Hidden Pianos In The Botanical Garden This Week For 12 days, 12 pianos lie hidden in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in a sort of musical game of hide-and-seek. Or, maybe since you'll gather around the pianos once you find them,
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Returning To Hayes Valley What do Hayes Valley and the Playa have in common? Very little. But one piece of public art is coming back to change that. The San Francisco Arts Commission in partnership with Burning
Arts & Entertainment New Public Art/Plaza Thing Unveiled Outside Nema Building On Market The long-covered public art piece and plaza at the corner of the NEMA building at 10th and Market can finally be enjoyed by the public. The piece by artist Topher Delaney, titled Promised
Arts & Entertainment Moscone Center Losing Forever Broken Video Art Piece Many of you may recognize the always black, powered-down, street-facing video panel on the side of Moscone Center West. But most of you probably have never seen it turned on and were not
Arts & Entertainment Got A Polaroid Taken In S.F.? This Public Art Project Wants It As part of the Hearts in San Francisco public art project — those large heart sculptures installed throughout the city and then auctioned off to benefit S.F. General Hospital — artists need your vintage
Arts & Entertainment New Burning Man Art Comes To Pier 14 On July 21, just after sunset, a new interactive, LED sculpture will light up Pier 14. The 28 x 40 foot stainless steel installation is a modified version of piece that premiered at
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
SF News Soiled Embarcadero Station Rope Sculpture To Be Removed After 40 Years After 40 years spent collecting dust, dirt and brake grime from BART trains, Barbara Shawcroft's 70s-era sculpture "Legs" will finally walk its way out of Embarcadero Station. The 50-foot, three and a half-ton
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Duboce Triangle Utility Box Turned Into Utopic Optical Illusion Well, color us astounded. Noted artist Mona Caron, of the Duboce Bikeway Mural behind the Safeway on Market Street, created this cool trompe l'oeil on Church and Duboce. Castro Biscuit reports, "Caron was
Arts & Entertainment Uh Oh: Bay Lights Already Malfunctioning This is not good, kids. Matier & Ross are reporting today on "hundreds" of those little LED lights that are part of the Bay Lights display that are stuck in either the on
Arts & Entertainment Dramatic Roxy Paine Sculpture Coming To 4th Street Central Subway Station Yes. The city needs more public art like this and less aerosol emoji sprayed on alley walls by dudes wearing Giants caps. The San Francisco Arts Commission voted to approve a new $1.
Arts & Entertainment Giant, Motorized Flower Coming To Civic Center Plaza After the awesome "Three Heads, Six Arms" monstrosity left town, Civic Center plaza has been without an oversized piece of public art for a little over a year now (unless you include the
Arts & Entertainment Tiny Cabin Sprouts Out The Side Of Union Square Hotel A new public art piece, titled "Manifest Destiny," has just been installed four stories above ground, attached to the side of the Hotel Des Arts (447 Bush Street). It's the work of San
Arts & Entertainment Short Film To Become Public Art Piece About Energy Waste, Sadness Light from Sunday Paper on Vimeo. “Light” is a semi-creepy short film directed by David Parker, and as Sunday-Paper.com tells us, it "initially began as a project intended to bring awareness to
Arts & Entertainment Martinez Residents Distraught Over Local Beaver "Everyone's saying we hate beavers, but this is not about liking beavers or not liking beavers," said public works director Dave Scola, a third-generation Martinez native who ordered the beaver's removal. — From the
SF News Latest Central Subway Controversy: Commissioned Sculptor Once Shot a Dog The Central Subway has plenty of opponents as it is, but the animal rights contingent is not one we expected to hear from in this fight. As the Examiner points out today, Tom
SF News Kiss "Three Heads, Six Arms" Goodbye, Leaves Tomorrow In the words of Boys II Men (perhaps it was your graduating class song?), "It's so hard to say goodbye," but the time has come. You were warned about this day back in
Arts & Entertainment Central Subway Public Art Competition Winners Announced Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Luis R. Cancel announced the winners of the Central Subway art installation contest today. Six local and national artists were chosen to
misc Ghostbusters Mural Pops Up at Bryant and 8th Street A Simpsons-esque mural of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and other characters from '80s sci-fi comedy Ghostbusters popped up at Bryant and 8th Street this week. Pretty cool, but no love for the
misc What Should Replace Crouching Spider? Louise Bourgeois' bronze spider sculpture is leaving the Embarcadero at Pier 14, ready to nest in Houston where it will be part of a private collection. Aw. While there's no word yet if
Arts & Entertainment What Happened to the SNIFF Paintings? by Lisa Hix The beauty and frustration of the art of tagging is how completely democratic it is. In the world of graffiti, art is temporary, and whoever can put down a few
misc Bumblebee Strikes SF Bumblebee, a Los Angeles-based artist, has been turning abandoned telephone booths into works of art. After a recent trip to San Francisco, he struck one booth on Minna, above. Here's how Bumblebee explains
SF News Graffiti Reporter For those of you who don't think smiley face tagging is positively whimsical, be sure to use 311's Graffiti Reporter. You can help erase mischievous displays of graffiti you find in public parks
Arts & Entertainment The Murals of San Francisco In a city boasting oversized weapons of love and Ionic Breezes masquerading as apartment buildings, the shockingly vibrant murals of San Francisco are part of what makes San Francisco's art scene special. Flickr
