After a decade of illuminating the Bay Area’s second-most iconic span, Leo Villareal’s artwork will be removed due to outages and weather damage, but fundraising efforts might allow a return to its former glory Leo Villareal, The Bay Lights , 2013 Photo by Dru Kelly , via Flickr The lights have gone out in San Francisco, and by all accounts, it will take upwards of $11m to turn them back on. After a decade of perpetual illumination, the iconic Bay Bridge art installation known as The Bay Lights (2013) was switched off at 8pm on 5 March, with organisers citing outages, cable issues and slow surrender to the area’s harsh weather patterns. Plans to remove the lights are afoot. The artwork by serial bridge illuminator Leo Villareal, consisting of nearly 25,000 tiny LED lights, has stretched over the 1.8-mile expanse between San Francisco and Oakland since March of 2013, […]

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