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SF’s Bay Bridge “Bay Lights” to Go Dark Unless $11 Million is Raised
Artsy Fartsy, Getting Help, San Francisco San Francisco’s gorgeous twinkly Bay Lights may be going dark soon. One of the largest light sculptures in the world with 25,000 LEDs has illuminated the 1.8-mile-long bridge since 2016. The installation by artist Leo Villareal was only supposed to be temporary. Originally installed as a temporary two-year artwork, this more...
Check Out SF’s Glowing Forest Submerged Due to Rains
Artsy Fartsy, Storm Watch Golden Gate Park’s beautiful lighted forest, “Entwined” is submerged underwater. With all the heavy rains, we caught a glimpse of Entwined on New Year’s Day where the ground was turning to soup. As we know, the rains continued, and now Entwined, located in Peacock Meadow, is now located in the newly formed more...
Napa’s Lighted Art Festival is Back for 2023 (Jan. 21 – Feb. 19)
Artsy Fartsy, Fairs & Festivals The Napa Lighted Art Festival is a celebration of creative arts, technology and lights, and supports innovative techniques using light and light technologies as a growing art medium. This walkable outdoor experience is free in Downtown Napa featuring 10 lighted art sculptures for five weeks and projection artwork on three more...
New GGPark Art Piece “Tune In” Hidden Under a Tunnel
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Parks & Beaches Tune In will transform part of John F. Kennedy Blvd. in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park at the Crossover Drive underpass into a huge, interactive sound-making instrument. The installation combines three octaves of vibrantly painted tubular bells for a total of 15 chimes ready to be played by anyone willing to more...
Twitter HQ to Auction Off Hundreds of Its Items (Starting at Just $25)
Artsy Fartsy, San Francisco Thanks to SF Gate for sharing the news that hundreds of items from Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco are going up for auction on January 17, 2023. If you ever wanted a 6-foot tall “@” symbol planter, now’s your chance. The auction will feature 388 lots of surplus corporate office assets more...
USA’s Largest Holiday Light Arts Fest “Let’s Glow SF” Returns to SF
Artsy Fartsy, Holiday Lights, Only in San Francisco Let’s Glow SF returns to Downtown San Francisco for the second year in a row. The free, outdoor holiday light arts festival is returning with more artists’ holiday-inspired works projected across some of downtown’s most notable buildings. From 5-10pm nightly, running Friday, December 2, 2022 – Sunday, December 11, 2022, is more...
Hundreds Crowd BART Platforms for “BART Basel” Guerilla Art Show
Artsy Fartsy, Only in San Francisco The quirky BART Basel returned touting itself as “the leading train platform connecting collectors, gallerists, and artists.” Hundreds turned up at San Francisco BART stations for the second annual guerilla art show, held Saturday, December 3, 2022. Organizer Danielle Baskin described the event on Twitter for the first annual event back more...
“Cathenge” Glowing 9-Foot Tall Cat Sculptures Come to SF
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, San Francisco The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) is pleased to let the cat out of the bag and announce the year-long installation of Cathenge, a new multisensory “Holofelinity Sound-Light Sculpture” installation by artist David Normal in Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley. Cathenge features six illuminated 3D-printed cat sculptures, or “Catholiths”, set atop a pedestal more...
SF’s North Beach Has a Brand New Jazz Club
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, San Francisco Thanks to Datebook for sharing the news that San Francisco’s one-time jazz capital, North Beach, will once again have a jazz club. The 4,000 square-foot Keys Jazz Bistro or “Keys,” located at 498 Broadway, hosts its grand opening on Thursday, November 10, 2022 with the exclusive one-time-only musical pairing of vocalists Mary more...
Golden Gate Park’s Lighted Forest is Back for 2022
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Favorites, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Entwined, the iconic illuminated art installation, returns to Golden Gate Park on December 1. Entwined will be hosted at Peacock Meadow for its third season from December 1, 2022 to March 12, 2023. This dazzling forest of light first welcomed parkgoers as a safe and joyful outdoor destination in 2020 and more...
Sculpture of 100 Old Vibrators Coming to SF
Artsy Fartsy, Sponsored Magic Wand’s ‘Pleasure as Art’ Sculpture, a sculpture made out of 100 decommissioned wand vibrators, is coming to Good Vibrations in San Francisco next month. The exact opening date has not yet been announced, but it’s expected to be on view starting in early December 2022. The piece was created by visual artist more...
Check Out SF Chinatown’s Brand New Lanterns
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, San Francisco San Francisco’s Chinatown has some brand new illuminating art. Lantern Stories: San Francisco is a new public art installation of 29 illustrated lanterns by award-winning interdisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu was installed in October 2022 and illuminates San Francisco Chinatown’s history, culture, and community. Creating a luminous canopy on the 600 more...
BART-themed Jack-O’-Lantern Stencils for Halloween
Artsy Fartsy, Halloween Carving a pumpkin is an art. The “oooos” and “aahhs” of trick-or-treaters coming to your door as they check out your carefully crafted pumpkin is something we all love to hear. From the classic jack-o’-lantern to a favorite cartoon character, there’s so much to choose from when it comes to more...
Check Out SF’s New “DoloDrip” Rainbow Stairs
Artsy Fartsy, San Francisco San Francisco has a brand new colorful rainbow staircase. San Francisco’s newest rainbow, known as #DoloDrip, is located on the Sanchez Street Stairs (between Sanchez and Noe on 19th Street), just west of Dolores Park. We don’t know when this was painted, but it was posted by @dolorainbow on October 19th along more...
SF’s Brand New ‘Central Subway’ Preview
Artsy Fartsy, Transportation San Francisco’s brand new Central Subway Stations will host a series of media preview events to celebrate the upcoming weekend service, their unique designs specific to each neighborhood, and to showcase the landmark artworks that were commissioned for each of the stations. STATION TOUR UPDATE – There are no tours open more...
