Alex Mak - Managing Editor
Art Parties, Openings, and Fests in OAK & SF
Did you say ‘MORE ART PLEASE’? Well, good. The weather’s nice and there are lots of art openings, parties, festivals on both sides of the bay in May. Here’s just a few in the next week or two.
Creating SF’s New Disaster Safety Guide
If you lived in the bay in 1989, chances are you remember in vivid detail the big Loma Prieta Earthquake that nearly crushed you, and your little dog too. I personally remember seeing the walls crack in my Aunts house, as I watched the Giants playoff game get started on TV,
Taggers Deface Mural Made by a Robot in SF. Hilarity Ensues
The taggers not only painted over the robot’s mural, they did it with the tech companies own paint.
Patricia’s Green Has A New 50ft Glowing Art Installation!
In a rather delightful way, Burning Man keeps a storage space on Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley. The San Francisco Arts Commission and Recreation and Park Department carved out a year lease for another sculpture that grew out of the Playa. Artist Charles Gadeken’s 50ft LED sculpture ‘SQUARED’ is now
So Many Art Parties, Films, and Festivals in SF, So Little Time
San Francisco’s Art Season has arrived and there are a ton of delightful art parties, fairs, fundraisers, concerts, films, and gala type events happening all over the place. From fancy to grassroots, outdoor to indoor, high art to tech heavy, from the art dealer driven to the artists running the asylum.
These E-Scooters Need to Be Stopped, And We Know How to Do it
While people were celebrating Saint Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland, Tech execs were busy driving e-scooters into ‘San Fran’ at a top speed of 15 mph. Naturally, there are some problems, you don’t introduce an invasive species into a San Francisco without upsetting the habitat.
It Was The Biggest Hunky Jesus Competition in History
Never before in history have more Jesusses been present in one place, during Easter resurrection. There were almost too many to name. There was Refu-Jesus, Puerto Rican Refugee-Jesus, Jesus Christ Super Star, Drunk Jesus, Crucified Bunny Jesus, Shower Jesus, Sweet Jesus, Water into Wine Jesus, Old Jesus, New Jesus, and two ‘cheesuses’ (which is when you have two Christs and you decorate them with cheese).
Kristin Farr : Artist You Should Know
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights Bay Area artists before they exhibit their work somewhere awesome, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. Meet artist, curator and journalist Kristin Farr, and see her work at First Amendment Gallery on 4/20/18. Free admission