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‘Good Fire: Tending Native Lands’ Burns Bright at the Oakland Museum of...
For anyone devastated or dismayed by the last decade of catastrophic megafires in California, there is no more hopeful story than that of Native Californians reviving their use of intentional,...
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A Legendary Mural From the 1980s Has Been Repainted in East Oakland
Oakland graffiti artist Del Phresh poses in front of his newly revamped ‘Oakland Is Proud 2’ mural, located at the same site of his legendary ‘Oakland Is Proud’ piece, originally painted nearly 40...
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The After-Turkey: Your Guide to Family-Friendly Art Viewing All Over the Bay
You fought traffic on the road and crowds at the airport; you brined, trussed, and/or basted a turkey; and you prevailed! Everybody sat down at the table Thursday and ate themselves into a stupor. But...
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Tenderloin Museum Holds New Fundraiser to Continue Ambitious Expansion
The Tenderloin Museum — a hub for all things arts and history in the neighborhood — is asking for donations in order to complete the first phase of an ambitious expansion plan that would see the museum...
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The Best Art I Saw and Didn’t Write About in 2025
It was a more dramatic year than usual in the local visual arts scene: we witnessed cuts to federal funding, institutional layoffs, gallery closures, and (lest we forget!) an actual art heist. Amid all...
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A Third Gallery to Close at Minnesota Street Project
By the end of 2025, three galleries within San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project will have closed their doors. All three — Altman Siegel, Rena Bransten Gallery and Anglim/Trimble — cited the...
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‘Be Not Afraid’ Is a Cathartic Cathedral of Queerness
“I don’t know if you’ve ever been inside an Orthodox Church,” artist KT Seibert tells KQED, “but I just have a hard time believing that straight men designed all that …” Seibert is explaining the...
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Jack Fischer Is Fourth Gallery to Close at Minnesota Street Project
Just a week after Anglim/Trimble became the third gallery at Minnesota Street Project to announce its closure, a fourth has joined the list. Jack Fischer Gallery, established in 2002, will close at the...
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‘Emory Douglas: In Our Lifetime’ Shows the Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist
When it comes to the giants of protest art, few loom as large as Emory Douglas, the 82-year-old graphic artist, illustrator and muralist who served as the Black Panther Party’s minister of culture from...
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13 Ways of Looking at Claude
In honor of the beloved albino alligator Claude, who died last week at the age of 30, we have a special comic from local artist A.G. Moore, who “worked alongside” Claude at the California Academy of...
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This Painting Is Missing. Do You Have It?
This is a story about a missing painting, from an artist you may never have heard of. Though she helped shape European modern art, German artist Gabriele Münter’s work was quickly overshadowed in the...
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Your Guide to the Bay Area’s Biggest Art Month
January is now the most action-packed month of the year for Bay Area artists, galleries and museums, thanks in part to the international crowds that flock to Fort Mason for the opulent FOG Design+Art...
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At SFMOMA, a Small Show of Big Sculpture Has Even Bigger Implications
Art needs money. That’s especially true in the case of large public sculptures. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Cupid’s Span, a giant bow and arrow embedded in the grass at Rincon Park,...
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California College of the Arts Will Close in 2027
California College of the Arts, the last nonprofit art and design school in Northern California, announced on Tuesday that it will “wind down its current operations” and close by the end of the...
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What We Will Lose When California College of the Arts Closes
On Tuesday morning at City Hall, Mayor Daniel Lurie made the surprise announcement that Vanderbilt University would open a campus in San Francisco. “Today is a big day for our city,” Lurie said, in his...
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Your Guide to MLK Day Events Around the Bay Area
This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks the first year the federal holiday is not included on the list of entrance fee-free days to national parks, a choice made by the Trump administration...
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‘Who Is America at 250?’ Interrogates the Principles of the Land of the Free
This year marks the United States’ bisesquicentennial, or semiquincentennial, or sestercentennial, depending on what you feel like calling America’s 250th birthday. Whichever word you choose, it’s zero...
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An Eclectic, Open-Call Art Show Returns to Works/San José
Hadi Aghaee paints former President Joe Biden with three heads: One as a demonic caricature, another as the Joker, and another as a figure frozen in rage. Biden orders soldiers as he stands atop the...
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New Grammy Category Honors Album Covers and the Artists Behind Them
When it came time to decide the cover image for Wet Leg’s sophomore album, the British indie rock band packed items that might provide inspiration — velvet worms sewn by guitarist Hester Chambers, an...
View ArticleSFMOMA Announces 16 Finalists for the 2026 SECA Art Award
Just when the local scene could most use it, we’ve got some good news: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has named the 16 finalists for the 2026 SECA Art Award. This year’s SECA curators,...
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In ICA San José Show, Landscapes Offer a Makeshift Home for Ghostly Figures
Home is a complicated place for Anoushka Mirchandani. The India-born, San Francisco-based painter — currently an artist in residence at Silver Art Projects in New York City — has recently returned to...
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A New Art Installation Celebrates Oscar Grant’s 40th Birthday
Rev. Wanda Johnson, mother of the late Oscar Grant. (Mohammad Gorjestani) February 27, 2026 will mark Oscar Grant’s 40th birthday. Grant was killed at the age of 22 on New Year’s Day 2009, when he was...
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Not That Into Football? Try These Super Bowl Alt-Events
Super Bowl week is upon us, and by now you’ve likely heard of all the big-time hotshot corporate parties. Kehlani and Dom Dolla are coming to San José, Illenium is performing at the Cow Palace, and...
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ISO a Patron to Bring Back SFMOMA’s Free First Thursdays
Luck has run out for the budget-conscious arts lover: starting this week, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is pausing its First Thursdays program indefinitely. That four-hour window of free...
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Time Traveling Through Cece Carpio’s New Exhibition at SOMArts
Cece Carpio. ‘Brass and Copper,’ 2017. (Brandon Robinson) Inside SOMArts gallery, the walls are adorned with sharp machete blades everywhere, and a pair of adorable, covertly embedded dangly earrings....
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At BAMPFA, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Eloquent Art Lives On
There are so many words in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings that it can be a bit daunting to form a written response of one’s own. The retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film...
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SOMArts to Gather SF Arts Community During ‘State of Emergency’
In recent months, SOMArts Executive Director Maria Jenson has routinely found herself huddled in small groups, debriefing on street corners. It was always after an arts community meeting organized by...
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San Francisco Gets a Brand New Gallery — With a Focus on African Artists
Ayanda Mabulu, ‘The Load,’ 2025. (Courtesy of AOCA ) The first thing you see when you enter Art of Contemporary Africa (AOCA) — a brand new gallery at the Minnesota Street Project — are three stunning,...
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Tracing Her Black Ancestry, Trina Michelle Robinson Apprehends the Past
Trina Michelle Robinson is trying to talk to ghosts. For 10 years, the San Francisco-based artist has been on a journey to uncover and share the stories of her ancestors and the legacies of Black...
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Emory Douglas on His Iconic Black Panther Art, 60 Years Later
It’s no accident that the Black Panthers remain icons of resistance 60 years after their founding. That’s not only because of their groundbreaking survival programs or armed patrols against police...
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