Sculpture

This Is How the World Ends

"Matter + Spirit": Stephen De Staebler's Angels Don't Fly

Blown Away

Taking in Richard Serra's Arresting Drawings

Retrofuturistic Realness

Is It Real, or Is It Internet?

How Scary Will the New Transbay Transit Center Sculpture Be?

Courtesy of Tim Hawkinson and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects​It's reasonable to expect that the transformation of the now-destroyed structure once known as San Francisco's Transbay Terminal into a glistening new hub for high-speed rail will be for the best. In its final years, the old Transbay Term ... More >>

Rhymes with Rich

Courtesy of Tim Hawkinson and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects​It's reasonable to expect that the transformation of the now-destroyed structure once known as San Francisco's Transbay Terminal into a glistening new hub for high-speed rail will be for the best. In its final years, the old Transbay Term ... More >>

Pantha Du Prince: Show Preview

Courtesy of Tim Hawkinson and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects​It's reasonable to expect that the transformation of the now-destroyed structure once known as San Francisco's Transbay Terminal into a glistening new hub for high-speed rail will be for the best. In its final years, the old Transbay Term ... More >>

Fabric8's 50th Street Food Friday Rips Tonight

Tamara PalmerAdobo Hobo at Fabric8's Street Food Fridays.​For almost a year, Mission gallery Fabric8 has hosted Street Food Fridays, events that have introduced a number of aspiring vendors to the public, and given pavement cuisine a chance to thrive, rain or shine, in a family-friendly enviro ... More >>

Lo, Emperor Norton Has Returned to San Francisco

Hail Norton! Norton I, the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, has returned. The former industrialist -- who lost everything, went bananas, and wandered the streets of 19th-century San Francisco in quasi-military garb, paying for goods with his own currency and issuing edicts -- di ... More >>

Emperor Norton Returns to San Francisco

It took nearly 75 years for Peter Macchiarini -- and now his son, Danny -- to get this Emperor Norton sculpture built in San Francisco​"...There have been other Emperors in the history of this world of ours who have been out of their minds, their reigns were marked by violence and atrocity ... but ... More >>

Guerrilla Artist Assaults Aquatic Park

Last week, we wrote about how guerrilla sculptor Porfirio Vazquez will have his impromptu sculpture garden of reptiles relocated from Heron's Head Park, to the Bayview Opera House, and then to the EcoCenter at Heron's Head.Word must have traveled quickly that the path to neighborhood artistic fame i ... More >>

Heron's Head Park Stone Sculptures To Become Travelling Exhibit

​When we last visited impromptu sculptor Porfirio Vazquez, the Andy Goldsworthy of Heron's Head Park was sulking because his three-month old artistic career seemed to be nearly over.Last week, however, Vazquez complained because it seemed as if his artwork construction would never end."Do you thin ... More >>

"Winter Group Show"

​When we last visited impromptu sculptor Porfirio Vazquez, the Andy Goldsworthy of Heron's Head Park was sulking because his three-month old artistic career seemed to be nearly over.Last week, however, Vazquez complained because it seemed as if his artwork construction would never end."Do you thin ... More >>

Rees' Pieces

​When we last visited impromptu sculptor Porfirio Vazquez, the Andy Goldsworthy of Heron's Head Park was sulking because his three-month old artistic career seemed to be nearly over.Last week, however, Vazquez complained because it seemed as if his artwork construction would never end."Do you thin ... More >>

Snapshots: SFMOMA's New Rooftop Sculpture Garden

It was not an ideal morning for the SFMOMA to debut their rooftop sculpture garden. The day was gray with a light, sideways-falling mist coating the outdoor sculptures in a layer of dampness. Nonetheless, a healthy crush of reporters a packed a room fragrant with Blue Bottle coffee being served from ... More >>

"Richard Haden and Jeff McMillan"

It was not an ideal morning for the SFMOMA to debut their rooftop sculpture garden. The day was gray with a light, sideways-falling mist coating the outdoor sculptures in a layer of dampness. Nonetheless, a healthy crush of reporters a packed a room fragrant with Blue Bottle coffee being served from ... More >>

"Smokem If You Gotem" by Erik Foss at Gallery Three

It was not an ideal morning for the SFMOMA to debut their rooftop sculpture garden. The day was gray with a light, sideways-falling mist coating the outdoor sculptures in a layer of dampness. Nonetheless, a healthy crush of reporters a packed a room fragrant with Blue Bottle coffee being served from ... More >>

Spider Woman

It was not an ideal morning for the SFMOMA to debut their rooftop sculpture garden. The day was gray with a light, sideways-falling mist coating the outdoor sculptures in a layer of dampness. Nonetheless, a healthy crush of reporters a packed a room fragrant with Blue Bottle coffee being served from ... More >>

Hark!

It was not an ideal morning for the SFMOMA to debut their rooftop sculpture garden. The day was gray with a light, sideways-falling mist coating the outdoor sculptures in a layer of dampness. Nonetheless, a healthy crush of reporters a packed a room fragrant with Blue Bottle coffee being served from ... More >>

Burning Man's 'Big Rig Jig' Artist Nails It on 1st Try — A Q&A

It was not an ideal morning for the SFMOMA to debut their rooftop sculpture garden. The day was gray with a light, sideways-falling mist coating the outdoor sculptures in a layer of dampness. Nonetheless, a healthy crush of reporters a packed a room fragrant with Blue Bottle coffee being served from ... More >>

Giant Bourgeois Spider Mounts San Francisco

It was not an ideal morning for the SFMOMA to debut their rooftop sculpture garden. The day was gray with a light, sideways-falling mist coating the outdoor sculptures in a layer of dampness. Nonetheless, a healthy crush of reporters a packed a room fragrant with Blue Bottle coffee being served from ... More >>

Strange Fruit

The weird, wonderful, disturbing world of Joyce Scott

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

The weird, wonderful, disturbing world of Joyce Scott

Maverick or Madman?

The intensely weird world of sculptor Stanislav Szukalski

Beetle Mania

Big pictures of little ladies

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibitions

The Politics of Burning Man

Burning Man and the Republican convention coincide. Where's a good progressive to go?

Best Museum

California Academy of Sciences

Pranks for Nothing

Two sculptors stage a hoax at Oracle's trade show as a statement against the treatment of artists

Artjournalism

Bruce Conner, the greatest artist you don't know, uses our Peter Byrne for image-honing purposes. We use Conner to get you to pick up the paper.

Money, Art, and Lawyers

Razing of long-standing Berkeley Shellfish sculpture creates potential legal dispute

Night Crawler

Razing of long-standing Berkeley Shellfish sculpture creates potential legal dispute

Night Crawler

Razing of long-standing Berkeley Shellfish sculpture creates potential legal dispute

A Calder Balancing Act

SFMOMA brass are going through hoops to keep cantankerous heirs of the sculptor happy

Duck!

Sculptor Brian Goggin throws art out the window

Pet Sounds

Douglas Hollis combines audio with visual in his larger-than-life environmental sculptures

Night + Day

Douglas Hollis combines audio with visual in his larger-than-life environmental sculptures

Aisle Seat

Douglas Hollis combines audio with visual in his larger-than-life environmental sculptures