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 After Years of Protest and Vandalism, Columbus Statue Is Removed From Telegraph Hill As recently as October, Supervisor Aaron Peskin was vowing to prosecute the vandals who tossed red paint all over the statue of Christopher Columbus near Coit Tower. But now it's gone. Will Columbus Avenue be next?
SF News Appalling Embarcadero Fountain Would Cost a Half Million Dollars To Turn Back On I love the angular Vaillancourt Fountain, the 40-foot tall concrete tangle of disjointed modernist square tubes at the northern end of Justin Herman Plaza, mostly thanks to fond memories of the location that
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 Hayes Valley May Get New Dose Of Burning Man Art Next Month A sort of sliver of Burning Man's Black Rock City in the heart of the far more hospitable Hayes Valley, Patricia's Green has hosted multiple iterations of art inspired by and related to
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Takes Shape Again, Gets Its 37-Foot Spire Today In Hayes Valley New temple being constructed in Patricia's Green #BurningMan #HayesValley pic.twitter.com/HOnxuRTLmX— Dave Lester (@davelester) June 22, 2015 As we mentioned the other week, artist David Best is building a brand new
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 Bronze Tortoises Stolen Again From Nob Hill Fountain Back in May of 2007, two cast bronze tortoises were removed and stolen off of the beloved Fountain of the Tortoises in Huntington Park, atop Nob Hill. As photographer Sergio Ruiz shows us
SF News SF Arts Commission Demands $919 Chairs, Talks Smack About Staples The Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee wrapped up its negotiations regarding San Francisco's proposed $8.6 billion spending plan in record time Wednesday night. While negotiations were definitely less contentious than
Arts & Entertainment Dizzying Photos From Above And Below The New Bay Bridge Photographer Joe Blum, a former shipfitter and welder himself, has spent the last 24 years documenting the rise of the new Eastern Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. From the first soil
SF News Vawanda Vindicated: Shocking Muni Confessional is 100% True! But our John-Stossel-Like hunger for the truth was unsatisfied. So we got in touch with Judy Morgan at the SF Arts Commission; and as it turns out, all of the posters are totally
Arts & Entertainment Symphony Outdoors We were so relieved when we ran into SFist Jim yesterday at the SF Symphony Dolores Park concert, because we knew his pictures would be so much better than ours! (His gorgeous shot
Arts & Entertainment The Gates: West Coast Version Once it's finished later this year, Octavia Boulevard -- that eastern-edge-of-the-Castro strip where once squatted a disused offramp -- will be a sort of lasting, permanent demonstration of SF's long-held disdain for urban
