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 SF-Born Metal Sculptor Richard Serra, Known As the ‘Poet of Iron,’ Has Died at 85 Brother to the famed local defense attorney Tony Serra, internationally renowned metal sculptor Richard Serra may be best known locally for sculptures so huge that they blocked traffic in SoMa, but he passed Tuesday in New York from pneumonia.
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 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 News Anchor-Turned-Sculptor Dana King Unveils Her Sculpture 'Monumental Reckoning' In Golden Gate Park In honor of Juneteenth, local sculptor Dana King is unveiling a significant new installation at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park, titled "Monumental Reckoning."
Arts & Entertainment 40-Foot Burning Man Sculpture Formerly On Treasure Island Arrives On Las Vegas Strip Admirers of the female form in Las Vegas, Nevada will have something new to ogle in "Bliss Dance," a 40-foot tall sculpture wrought from 3,000 feet of stainless steel cable by Marco
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 The 12 Best Public Art and Street Art Works in San Francisco Ever since Diego Rivera first took a brush to our fair city's walls in the 1930s, San Francisco has served as a global hot spot for for outdoor public art. Here we take
Arts & Entertainment Did You See The Sand Mermaids In SF Last Weekend? Hello beautiful! #SanFrancisco #sand #Mermaid A photo posted by Yev Pusin (@yevp) on Apr 11, 2015 at 4:34pm PDT Spotted last weekend near the Marina harbor (above) and on the steps of
misc And Now, Dana King's Penis Sculpture CBS 5 anchorwoman Dana King is one of the highest paid talking heads in the Bay Area, and with good reason. She's a great reporter, has a warm yet no-nonsense presence, and looks
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
SF News Tatiana the Tiger Sculpture Unveiled Yesterday, as Carlos Sousa Jr.'s family mourned the one-year anniversary of their son's death, a sculpture of Tatiana the tiger was unveiled. Halfway up Telegraph Hill, a pleasant yet odd location to
Arts & Entertainment Behold the Hayes Valley Exploding-Head, Rusty Public Art Sculpture Worthy of your love or a tetanus shot?
misc Oprah Sarcophagus Speaking of Oprah, the fellow Aquarian just received American sculptor Daniel Edwards' chin-scratching touch. (You know, the celeb-loving guy who created that Britney-gives-birth sculpture?) Anyway, Edwards says his "piece pays homage to the
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Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact,
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Arts & Entertainment Kook Out Did you hear? Surfer, skateboarder, artist, and occasional Paul Frank designer Thomas Campbell has a new show. This one, it seems, highlights his brand-spanking new work, which he describes as "surf-centric doodles, sculpture,
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Arts & Entertainment Art + Cake = Yum They're having a launch party where you can ooh and aah: Friday, the 7th, from 7 to 11pm at the Michelle O'Connor Gallery at 2111 Mission Street (near 17th), 4th floor. Will they
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