Five months after the installation of R-Evolution , the giant metal sculpture of a nude woman in Embarcadero Plaza, and just two months since the appearance of the sea-serpent Naga in Golden Gate Park, the Sijbrandij Foundation has unveiled the latest piece of “big art” in San Francisco.

Coralee , an 18-foot-long mermaid made from recycled metal and glass by Bay Area artist Dana Albany, is now installed at the Port of San Francisco’s Pier ½ through September 2026. Made at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England for the exhibition Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man , the sculpture is, according to the artist, “a symbol of feminine strength and beauty, a modern-day heroine.”

Coralee is also the official harbinger of a major announcement: Over the next three years, the Si

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