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SF’s City Hall Lights Up in Hogwarts House Colors Tonight (Feb. 24)
Artsy Fartsy, Celebrations, Only in San Francisco Tonight, February 24, 2022, the exclusive West Coast production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child celebrates the official opening at San Francisco’s Curran Theater (445 Geary St). To mark the occasion, San Francisco’s City Hall will be lit up in Hogwarts House colors. Also in celebration, Geary Street will close starting more...
Pop-Up Art Installation for Ukraine Lights Up Palace of Fine Arts 2/22
Artsy Fartsy, Causes, San Francisco Thanks to Broke-Ass Stuart for sharing the news that the Palace of Fine Arts will turn into a pop-up art installation in solidarity with Ukraine tonight, Tuesday, February 22, 2022. Projection artist Alan Marling and the nonprofit organization Justice Murals are collaborating to bring Ukrainian art to San Francisco on the more...
Frida Khalo Immersive Art Exhibition Opens in SF March 12
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New The newest immersive art installation, Immersive Frida Kahlo, will make its West Coast premiere atLighthouse ArtSpace San Francisco at SVN West (10 S. Van Ness Ave.) beginning March 12 and running through June 11, 2022. Tickets start at $39.99 with timed and flexible options available. Immersive Van Gogh will continue to be on more...
SF’s Amazing Immersive Art Show Ends February 28
Artsy Fartsy, Museums / Cultural Institutions, San Francisco, Sponsored Step into an experience like no other: at teamLab: Continuity, you become part of an interactive landscape of blooming flowers, darting fish, and soaring crows. Ends February 28, 2022 – Due to popular demand, teamLab: Continuity has been extended through Monday, Feb. 28. This is your last chance to experience this more...
SF’s “Soapbox Derby” Returns for First Time Since 1978
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Fun & Games, Museums / Cultural Institutions, San Francisco Witness Bay Area creativity in overdrive when SFMOMA’s Soapbox Derby returns to McLaren Park for the first time in more than 40 years. The original artists’ derbies from the 1970s are legendary events in our history. Between the two races in 1975 and 1978, the museum commissioned cars and trophies more...
“The Obama Portraits” Are Coming to SF’s de Young Museum This Summer
Artsy Fartsy, Museums / Cultural Institutions, San Francisco The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery’s “The Obama Portraits Tour” will be coming to the de Young Museum. The exhibition will be on view June 18 – August 14, 2022. From the moment of their unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in February 2018, the official portraits of President Barack Obama and more...
GG Park’s “Lighted Forest” Special Valentine’s Display (Feb. 11-14)
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, San Francisco, Valentine's Day Golden Gate Park’s Entwined will feature a special Valentine’s Day display from Friday, February 11 to Monday, February 14. Take a walk with your loved ones and stop by Peacock Meadow to enjoy this illuminated art exhibit. An illuminating art installation in Golden Gate Park transforms Peacock Meadow into an enchanted forest of more...
Asian Art Museum’s New Exhibit “Seeing Gender” (Jan. 21 – Sept. 5)
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, LGBTQ+, Museums / Cultural Institutions, San Francisco, Sponsored Seeing Gender is the museum’s first exhibition to explore the collection through the lens of gender. “Gender and sexuality are so central to conversations our society is having today, especially in the Bay Area. With its diverse holdings, the museum can make an important contribution to that dialogue,” explain the more...
Napa’s Free Lighted Art Festival Returns (Jan. 15 – Mar. 13)
Artsy Fartsy, Fairs & Festivals, Outdoorsy 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 eight lighted art sculptures for eight weeks. Bring the family and experience the more...
49 of SF’s Most Inspiring Pandemic Murals from Boarded-Up Storefronts
Artsy Fartsy, Community, Fairs & Festivals, Murals, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco, Uplifting When San Francisco shut down during shelter-in-place in early 2020 artists created gorgeous temporary murals throughout the city on boarded-up storefronts. Fortunately, as the city reopened, many of these works of art were saved and are now on view together for the first time in the nation’s largest exhibit of more...
SF Debuts 6 Life-sized Tiger Sculptures for Chinese New Year (Jan. 17 – Feb. 19)
Artsy Fartsy, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Lunar New Year, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco is proud to bring back the public art project, Tiger on Parade, to its list of festivities this Lunar New Year. Six life-sized Tiger statues will be publicly displayed around San Francisco, from January 17 – February 19, 2022 to help ring in the more...
SF’s Colorful Golden Gate Park Show Wins “Best Fireworks” Design Award
Artsy Fartsy, Only in San Francisco, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Judy Chicago’s multicolored, site-specific Atmospheres performance: Forever de Young just won Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022’s Best Fireworks award. The artist performed the open-air smoke sculpture performance outside the de Young museum on Saturday, October 16, 2021 in Golden Gate Park, in celebration of the artist’s exhibition Judy Chicago: A Retrospective, now more...
SF Cartoon Museum Hosts Weird Art from HBO’s “Last Week Tonight”
Artsy Fartsy, Museums / Cultural Institutions, San Francisco By Kiley Russell, Bay City News Foundation If you’re a fan of neckties, Wendy Williams or depictions of lustful rodents, San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum will be your happy place for most of January. Starting Tuesday, January 4, 2022 and running until Jan. 25, the museum will be home to “The Last more...
Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco: Free Walking Tour (Dec. 26)
Artsy Fartsy, Only in San Francisco Take a tour of Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco on December 26. There’s not one, but two tours offered on the day after Christmas. San Francisco is an inherently cinematic city. Its rolling hills, Victorian rooflines, and panoramic vistas would make it a tremendous backdrop for any director — but nobody knew more...
SF’s Getting New 93-Foot Roller Skate Mural in Golden Gate Park in 2022
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Murals, San Francisco A ground mural featuring a golden roller skate surrounded by a psychedelic pattern may add new color to a legendary skating spot in Golden Gate Park after the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission voted unanimously to approve the final design today. The 28-foot by 93-foot oval mural planned for the more...
