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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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‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The Parkway 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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Amy Sherald Gathers ‘Sublime’ American Portraits at SFMOMA
An energetic array of colors greets visitors walking through the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s new exhibition Amy Sherald: American Sublime. From mint greens to velvet lavenders and canary...
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Women Make ‘Their Mark’ in Elegant BAMPFA Show
I am of two minds when it comes to public museums exhibiting private collections. One mind grumbles, the other respects. Collectors with the funds to support their art-buying habits can accumulate...
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Andrea Bergen’s Art Hands the World Over to Its Scrappiest Scavengers
What do you think would happen if raccoons inherited the Earth? San Francisco artist Andrea Bergen posits that they’d be racing around on monster trucks, chowing down human snacks, slurping energy...
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YBCA Announces a New CEO After a Year of Protests and Staff Departures
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the multidisciplinary arts space in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens complex, today announced the appointment of Maricelle “Mari” Robles as its next CEO. Robles...
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100 Cultural Moments That’ve Shaped the Bay Area This Century (So Far)
Well, that snuck up on us! Can you believe that we’ve just capped the first 25 years of the millennium? Here at the KQED Arts & Culture desk, we started thinking about what the Bay Area arts scene...
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A Monumental Mural by Ranu Mukherjee Opens a New SF Ballet Program
The San Francisco Ballet and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have announced a new partnership to annually commission curtain drops from Bay Area artists. Earlier this year, Maria A. Guzmán Capron’s...
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Berkeley Art Center Slashes Budget, Launches Search for New Director
The Berkeley Art Center, a 57-year-old nonprofit arts space in North Berkeley’s Live Oak Park, announced on Dec. 13 the departure of co-directors Kimberley Acebo Arteche and Elena Gross. Arteche left...
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SF Arts Space 500 Capp Street Announces New Collective Leadership
Nonprofit arts space 500 Capp Street, located in David Ireland’s former Mission District home, will move forward as a collective, staff members announced on Tuesday. Under the new leadership structure...
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Art to See at the Start of 2025
Other than September, there is no bigger month for Bay Area visual art than January. Major shows open, year-long projects kick off, and the FOG Design+Art Fair (Jan. 23–25) caps off SF Art Week, a...
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Remembering My Friend Pete Doolittle, Anarchic San Francisco Artist
The morning after New Year’s Day, one of my oldest friends in San Francisco very suddenly, quite unexpectedly, died. His name was Pete Doolittle, and if you didn’t know him personally, you might know...
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Asking a Digital World to Believe in Film Photography
Nora Lalle poses at her home in the Outer Richmond on Jan. 10, 2025. She founded the photography magazine Pamplemousse in 2021. (David M. Barreda/KQED) San Francisco-born-and-raised artist Nora Lalle’s...
View ArticleNEA Awards $2.5 Million in Grants to Bay Area Arts Organizations
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced more than $2.5 million in 2025 grants to 88 different Bay Area arts organizations. The largest grant in the region will go to San Francisco’s Bay...
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The Artists of SFMOMA’s 2024 SECA Show Stand the Test of Time
In the month since I first visited the 2024 SECA Art Award exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, much has changed. Not to the show itself: The delicate paintings by Rupy C. Tut, Rose...
View ArticleAsian Art Museum Names New Director, Soyoung Lee
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum will soon have a new director and CEO. The museum announced today the appointment of Soyoung Lee, who most recently worked at the Harvard Art Museums as chief curator....
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