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For Mildred Howard, There’s No Time Like the Present
Mildred Howard is up to something. The legendary Bay Area artist, who was born in San Francisco in 1945, has organized three concurrent exhibitions of her work on both sides of the Bay under the title...
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‘Prodigal Daughter’ Beautifully Illuminates One Woman’s Road Less Traveled
“Painting is a ritual to confront the past and heal what is broken,” Mabel Valdiviezo says in the first moments of her film, Prodigal Daughter. “It reveals layers that the camera cannot capture and...
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Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith Discuss New Book in Newly Reopened Theater
Without question, Robert Mappelthorpe is the photographer with which poet, writer and musician Patti Smith will always most closely be associated. As his working partner, lover and lifetime confidant,...
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A Palestinian San Francisco Photographer Reflects on a Year of War
A self-portrait by Najib Joe Hakim exploring conflicting symbols of “Palestinian-ness.” (Najib Joe Hakim) The ancient drum beats of Palestinian folk music blared at the California Academy of Sciences...
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Two Artists Answer the ‘Call of the Void’ with Lime-Hued Paintings
It felt appropriate to visit a show titled Call of the Void during an unrelenting heat wave. A deep, dark, cool nothingness was all my reptile brain desired as I walked down an unshaded stretch of...
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A Gazan Photographer Embraces Her Refugee Lens in San Francisco
When she thinks back to her childhood in Gaza in the late ’90s, Lara Aburamadan recalls spending her days hanging out and enjoying food with her family on sandy beaches, swimming in the Mediterranean...
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The Emotional Power of Mary Cassatt’s Magnificent Women and Bored Girls
A world-famous artist in her era, and widely known as both an artistic and a social revolutionary, the American impressionist Mary Cassatt is too often absented from exhibitions in favor of...
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Barry McGee Enters a New Era: ‘It’s a Rebirth, of Some Sort’
Inside Berggruen Gallery, at the opening of his first solo show in San Francisco since 2015, Barry McGee stood against the front wall, surrounded by a crush of 20 people. The gallery’s lights dimmed...
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Workers Unionize at NIAD, Richmond’s Progressive Art Studio
The employees of NIAD Art Center, a Richmond studio serving artists with disabilities, announced Tuesday morning that they will form a union. NIAD Unidad will be affiliated with the American Federation...
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Reintroducing Tamara de Lempicka, the High Priestess of Art Deco
One of the great joys of visiting museum exhibitions, especially retrospectives, is the possibility of discovering something new about an artist you think you know well. (An uncharacteristic plexiglass...
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Artists Pull Human Stories Out of the Archives in Affecting San José Show
In Allegedly the worst is behind us, a group show at the Institute of Contemporary Art San José, the 12 included artists, many of them living and working in the Bay Area, use their art as an archive of...
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In Oakland, ‘Artists Against Apartheid’ Build Solidarity With Palestinians
On Tuesday night in Oakland, about 70 artists — mostly in their 20s and 30s, with some as old as 80 — filed into a small storefront near Fruitvale BART. In attendance were Stanford students who had...
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SFMOMA Goes All in For Sports
It’s difficult to suppress a dazed smile as the elevators open on the seventh floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The sensory bombardment is immediate: speakers play the sounds of a...
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Headlands Center for the Arts Announces New Executive Director
In a surprise announcement, Headlands Center for the Arts has named Louisa Gloger as the next executive director of the 42-year-old Marin artist-in-residence program. Gloger, who is currently executive...
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‘Makeshift Memorials’ Solemnly Chronicles Art of the Pandemic Era
Looking back at the past four years is not necessarily something I’m ready to do, and yet it’s exactly what the latest exhibition at Kadist demands. For Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions, curators...
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Free Admission and Halloween Activities at Santa Rosa’s Schulz Museum
Since 1966, each fall, families have been cozying up on the couch to watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, the classic animated television special with a heartwarming story of hope for a spooky...
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Hunters Point Shipyard Artists Cry SOS: ‘Save Our Studios!’
Nearly two dozen artists showed up at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday in matching shirts and sailor hats, determined to make a splash to save their creative home at Hunters Point...
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Marlon Mullen, Longtime NIAD Artist, Lands a MoMA Solo Show
Richmond artist Marlon Mullen’s colorful, stylized paintings have caught the eye of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which recently announced it will host his first solo museum show. Projects:...
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With a New Space, MarinMOCA Brings North Bay Art Front and Center
For many San Franciscans, myself included, Marin is a mysterious, majestic place with hidden pockets of culture and community, all nestled in the shadow of Mount Tamalpais. But there’s a rich history...
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Crass Artist’s Subversive Zine Work Flips Off San Francisco Center for the Book
There are only a handful of punk logos that have stood the test of time, and they’re almost universally recognized: Black Flag’s bars, Misfits’ Crimson Ghost and Crass’ anti-authority cross. The last...
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The Deceptive Minimalism of Léonie Guyer at House of Seiko
Every morning, when Léonie Guyer enters her studio, she tries to trick herself. “Before I cross the threshold,” she says excitedly, her face animated by the thought, “I try to trick myself into...
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A Vallejo Gallery Hosts a Slippery Show of Thrilling Distortions
Despite appearing like a fairly straightforward Vallejo storefront, a few clues hint at Personal Space’s mutability. There’s even a “sign,” if you could call it that, mounted to the edge of the...
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Welcome Back to the Klay Area, Mr. Thompson
An illustration of NBA star (and boat owner) Klay Thompson with his pup, Rocco. (Kaitlyn Joe-Johnson) The NBA season is in full swing, and with a 7-1 record, the Golden State Warriors are balling. As...
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Close Your Phone, Leave the House: Things to Do This Post-Election Weekend
There’s no way to sugar-coat it: here in the Bay Area this week, a lot of people are holed up, feeling despair at another Trump presidency and doomscrolling on their phones. Some of the more...
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The Wattis Reopens With a Show That Spills Onto a New CCA Campus
When the art community bid adieu to the Wattis Institute’s decade-long home on Kansas Street earlier this year, I was heartbroken. It had been a good run of shows at the California College of the Arts’...
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‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The California Theater in Berkeley
This week, KQED is proud to present Movie Theaters We Have Lost by Briana Loewinsohn, a cartoonist, teacher and author of the upcoming graphic memoir Raised By Ghosts, about growing up in the East Bay....
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‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: United Artists in Berkeley
This week, KQED is proud to present Movie Theaters We Have Lost by Briana Loewinsohn, a cartoonist, teacher and author of the upcoming graphic memoir Raised By Ghosts, about growing up in the East Bay....
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‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The Pussycat Theater in Oakland
This week, KQED is proud to present Movie Theaters We Have Lost by Briana Loewinsohn, a cartoonist, teacher and author of the upcoming graphic memoir Raised By Ghosts, about growing up in the East Bay....
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What’s the Use of ‘Political Art’ in 2024?
Who could forget the pussy hats, the colorful protest banners, the nude statues and subversive murals of the first Trump administration? Voters, apparently. Despite a surge in art-as-resistance eight...
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‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The UC Theatre in Berkeley
This week, KQED is proud to present Movie Theaters We Have Lost by Briana Loewinsohn, a cartoonist, teacher and author of the upcoming graphic memoir Raised By Ghosts, about growing up in the East Bay....
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