Widely considered one of the world’s great public artworks, The Bay Lights on the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge debuted on March 5, 2013. The installation by artist Leo Villareal was instantly beloved and came to define San …

May 3, 2024 · The Bay Bridge light show will return in March 2025 after going dark over a year ago, its creator announced. Dubbed "The Bay Lights 360," the lights will wrap around the bridge's cables, so the display will also be visible in San Francisco's …

Dec 11, 2024 · Crews have begun installing 50,000 new LED bulbs for the second iteration of Bay Lights after an $11 million fundraising effort, according to the nonprofit Illuminate.

Dec 18, 2024 · A lawsuit filed by Mark Baker of the Soft Lights Foundation alleges that the Bay Lights 360 project poses significant environmental and neurological hazards.

Dec 9, 2024 · “Workers have begun installing 50,000 new custom-engineered LED lights on the Western span of the Bay Bridge,” reads an update on Instagram from Illuminate. “You can expect to see testing of the new strands starting early in the new year.”

Dec 9, 2024 · Crews started installing 50,000 custom-engineered LED lights on the western span of the Bay Bridge this week, marking the first step in bringing the iconic light display back to the Bay Area...

The Bay Lights was a site-specific monumental light sculpture and generative art installation on the western span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, designed to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its opening.

May 2, 2024 · With 25,000 LED lights covering the western portion of the bridge, they’re an impressive sight. The bridge has gone dark since the end of 2023, but now the lights are officially making a comeback. The lights were a temporary, two-year installation and even had a …

Mar 6, 2023 · This monumental light sculpture, created by the one and only artist Leo Villareal, is made up of 25,000 individually programmed white LED lights that create a never-ending, dazzling display across the north side of the Bay Bridge west span.

May 2, 2024 · For the past 14 months, the bridge’s Bay Lights art installation — 25,000 LEDs that twinkled across 300 cables on the western span of the bridge — has been turned off. Now, fans of the 1.8-mile...