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
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
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
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 "
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
