SF News SF Performing an Audit of City’s 98 Statues to Determine If Any Should Be Removed for Being Racist or Sexist An outside firm has been hired to perform an audit of the 98 statues and monuments in SF, and recommend which ones should be removed or altered if they "no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for.”
Arts & Entertainment Giant New Statue of Woman in Jogging Gear Goes Up Along Embarcadero There’s a towering new statue between the Ferry Building and Pier 1 of a nine-foot-tall woman dressed in jogging apparel, and the work “As Sounds Turn to Noise" will be there on loan from a gallery in Los Angeles for the next six months.
Arts & Entertainment That Rogue Butterfly Statue Has Been Placed In Storage, Arts Commission ‘Evaluating Options’ For Its Future That unauthorized but very well-designed butterfly statue that went up in Golden Gate Park last month could still have a future, though the SF Arts Commission says the statue would not “last long in an outdoor environment.”
Arts & Entertainment Rogue Butterfly Statue Goes Up in Golden Gate Park, But City Hall Swats It Down Someone modified Golden Gate Park’s former Junipero Serra statue into a statue of the extinct Xerces blue butterfly for Earth Day, but the SF Arts Commission got all aflutter and took the statue down.
SF News 90-Year-Old Greek Statue at Legion of Honor Vandalized, Pieces Missing One of San Francisco's oldest statues — a marbled Greek sculpture at Legion of Honor — was found without several parts this week, sparking calls for the return of the missing pieces by curators.
Arts & Entertainment 'Monumental' New Sculpture Installation Commemorating America's First Slaves Likely Coming to Golden Gate Park A collection of 350 sculptures that commemorate America's "original sin" of slavery is set to arrive by Juneteenth at the Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse.
SF News SF Archbishop Conducts Exorcism To Rid San Rafael Protest Site of Demonic Forces Saturday, the Archbishop of San Francisco performed an exorcism in San Rafael to cleanse the protest area where the St. Junipero Serra statue was reduced to nothing but its feet on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Sir Francis Drake Statue Removed From Larkspur Ferry Landing In Marin Ahead of planned protests in Larkspur this week, the city manager ordered the removal of a controversial statue of explorer and slave trader Sir Francis Drake from an area near the ferry terminal.
SF News Op-Ed: Which Monuments Should Come Down And What Should Replace Them? The growing recognition that monuments to white men who supported oppression have no place in our public spaces has been a long time coming. But protesters who are toppling them wield a blunt instrument.
SF News Eyeroll: SF Archbishop Holds Exorcism, Asks For God's Mercy For Toppled Junipero Serra Statue Over the weekend, homophobic SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone decided to stage some religious theater at the spot in Golden Gate Park where that statue of Father Junipero Serra was toppled by protesters ten days ago.
SF Politics Trump Threatens to Imprison Attempted Statue Topplers; Twitter Labels Tweet In Which He Threatened Protesters With every passing day you get the sense that our ever-unraveling and re-raveling President might be hitting a new low point even for him — but how many times have we all said this in three years? It's like we're all in a support group for children of narcissistic parents.
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?
Arts & Entertainment Prankster Gives Creepy Glowing Red Eyes To Gandhi Statue At Ferry Building The statue of Mohandas Gandhi in back of (or in front of, depending on your perspective) the San Francisco Ferry Building has been vandalized again, although this time pretty harmlessly.
SF News Some Fool Climbed The Statue At Dolores And Market And The Fire Department Had To Help Him Down A possibly intoxicated/high/balls-tripping idiot decided to climb the pegasus statue at the end of Dolores Street yesterday, across from the Whole Foods, tried to ride it like a horse, and then
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Inside Mission Dolores Cemetery While scores visit Dolores Park and the Mission daily, few check out the gorgeous cemetery inside the Mission Dolores Basilica. Gerard Livernois snapped this shot of a well-worn statue inside the resting grounds.
SF News Steve Jobs To Become Large Bronze Statue A Hungarian businessman who met departed Apple CEO Steve Jobs back in the early 80s wants to immortalize his idol in a larger-than-life bronze statue. The seven-foot-tall statue, which we have to wonder