In these tight budget times, city departments are competing for every dollar, especially when it comes to capital spending.
The wish-list of capital funding requests by city departments is more than $194 million. Quite a wish list considering that The City’s 10-year capital plan calls for just $76.5 million in spending. Read More
Downtown developers may lose the final say over what art to showcase on their property, even though they are sometimes forced to spend millions of dollars on it. Read More
Flying is more stressful than ever these days — but not, perhaps, if you’re gazing at diaphanous sculptures dangling from the ceiling.San Francisco International Airport’s remodeled Terminal 2 opens next month with a community gathering April 9 and flight service starting April 14. As part of the $388 million redesign, five new public artworks have been installed. Read More
Two women recline in a ditch in the shade of a tree looking relaxed, as if they’ve just exchanged the banal minutiae of their day. The pastoral mood belies the reality of the semi-automatic weapons resting casually in their laps.The immediate, affecting image is in a photo on display in San Francisco’s City Hall by Lynsey Addario, one of the photojournalists highlighted in “Afghanistan in 4 Frames,” a free San Francisco Arts Commission exhibit opening Wednesday. Read More
Two hand-painted glass panels, each 16 feet high and 150 feet across, have been installed on the facade of San Francisco International Airport’s new Terminal 2.The artwork was conceived by Seattle-based artist Norie Sato, who took photographs of cloud formations from an airplane and recreated the images on 240 rectangular sections of double-layered glass that comprise the massive panels. Read More
