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The Bay Lights Are Coming Back in Spring 2025 (w/ Twice as Many Lights)
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Updates Great news! The Bay Lights are officially coming back and they’ll have twice as many lights. You know it’s big news when it’s in the New York Times! Today, The New York Times broke our news: The Bay Lights project is a “Go.” We’ve reached our $10M major gift goal, and the monumental more...
Bruce Lee Statue Coming to SF’s Chinatown?
Artsy Fartsy, Local Icons, Lunar New Year, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco, Stop Asian Hate Thanks to SF Gate for letting us know that a determined group, led by Bruce Lee memorabilia collector Jeff Chinn, is actively collaborating with the Bruce Lee Foundation to bring a butt-kicking statue of the martial arts legend to San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite statues scattered globally, including in Hong Kong more...
SF’s UN Plaza is Getting a Mini Lighted LED Forest
Artsy Fartsy, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Beginning Friday night, January 26, 2024, elements from artist Charles Gadeken’s illuminated installation Entwined Meadow will dazzle visitors to UN Plaza with changing light and color, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced today. The nine shrub sculptures, each composed of hundreds of LED lights at varying heights, arrived at more...
A Mini 1939 “World’s Fairs” is Coming to SF for One Day Only (Jan. 20)
Artsy Fartsy, San Francisco A mini version of San Francisco’s 1939 “Worlds Fair” is coming to Treasure Island for just one day only on Saturday, January 20, 2024. Dan and Armando Vargas, master model builders, are creating an exquisite miniature model of the Golden Gate International Exposition. The illuminated model is almost complete and the Vargas more...
SF Debuts Five Giant Dragon Sculptures for Chinese New Year (Jan. 28 – March 2)
Artsy Fartsy, Lunar New Year, San Francisco February 10, 2024, marks the first day of the Year of the Wood Dragon. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco is proud to bring back the public art project, Zodiac on Parade featuring the mythical Dragon, to its list of festivities this Lunar New Year. The public art project, more...
GG Park’s Powerful Art Exhibit w/ 350 Statues Says Goodbye
Artsy Fartsy, Goodbye, San Francisco Monumental Reckoning, a poignant and radically inclusive art exhibit to honor Black lives and the history of African descendants, will enjoy a closing ceremony at noon on January 12, to mark the end of its two-year exhibition in Golden Gate Park. Monumental Reckoning surrounds the vacant plinth in the Music Concourse where more...
Golden Gate Park’s Lighted Forest is Back for 2023
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Favorites, Holiday Lights, San Francisco San Francisco’s popular “Entwined” Lighted Forest in Golden Gate is back* from December 7, 2023 – April 28, 2024. *Pending permit approval, of course! The Entwined installation is still pending approval. It was reviewed at Wednesday’s Visual Arts Committee meeting, and next will be up for final approval at an upcoming more...
Japantown’s Immersive Light Show “Dandelion Project” Returns (Nov. 13-19)
Artsy Fartsy, San Francisco San Francisco’s Japantown is lighting up for APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, November 13-19, 2023 from noon to 6pm. This is likely located on the first floor of the Kinokuniya Mall. The Japantown Community Benefit District in partnership with Ryotaro Muramatsu and NAKED, Inc. is excited to bring back to San Francisco’s Japantown, Dandelion Project. As more...
SF’s Giant Laser Lights Return for APEC (Nov. 13-16)
Artsy Fartsy, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco Illuminate and Civic Joy Fund Partner to Beam Lasers Across San Francisco during APEC Week as a Gift from the People of San Francisco Major artwork will proceed despite late funding cut Arts nonprofit Illuminate, in partnership with the Civic Joy Fund, will activate Market Street with a never-before-seen array of 12 more...
SF Gets a Brand New 25-Foot Neon Sign
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, San Francisco Join Tenderloin Museum and SF Neon as they ignite a new, historically-informed neon sign above the entrance to the Tenderloin Museum at Eddy & Leavenworth in San Francisco. Three years in the making, this 25-ft double-sided neon will brighten the museum’s street corner and serve as both a literal and figurative more...
Check Out GG Park’s Newest Sculptures on the “Golden Mile”
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco The Golden Mile, a whimsical 1.5 stretch of Golden Gate Park teeming with large-scale art pieces, gigantic murals, and live music, has a birthday coming up and two extraordinary new installations will be unveiled as part of the celebration. Four sculptures called “Eat, Travel, Play, Care,” featuring Gillie and Marc’s iconic Dogman and more...
Giant ‘No Dancing’ Burning Man Sign Coming to Golden Gate Park
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Soon Golden Gate Park visitors will be greeted by a massive “NO DANCING” sign on JFK Promenade, across from the roller skating rink Skatin’ Place near 6th Avenue. The giant sign stands 20 feet high and spreads for 115 feet, but the artwork isn’t a Footloose-esque ban on dancing. In fact, more...
SF Planning Epic “Winter Lights at the Gardens” for GG Park in 2024
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco The Gardens of Golden Gate Park, which includes the Conservatory of Flowers, Japanese Tea Garden, and San Francisco Botanical Garden, are planning a unique winter lights installation from mid-November 2024 through early January 2025. Details are sparse for now as they are currently accepting proposals for a lighting partner to help more...
SF’s Huge “TreasureFest” Returns to Treasure Island in 2024
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco, Things to Do For the first time since November 2019, the massive “TreasureFest” makes its return to Treasure Island on February 24-25, 2024. Announced on September 19, 2023, Treasure Fest, a huge 18,000+ weekend festival will once again take over the eastern side of Treasure Island for 11 monthly weekend-long festivals starting in February more...
SF’s Wild New “Infinity Mirror Rooms” Coming This Fall
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New SFMOMA just announced a second “Infinity Mirror Room” as part of the brand new exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love, the first opportunity for audiences to experience Yayoi Kusama’s famed Infinity Mirror Rooms in the Bay Area. Today, SFMOMA reveals a second Infinity Mirror Room included in the presentation: LOVE IS CALLING, one of the largest and most immersive more...
