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‘Columbusing’: The Art of Discovering Something that is Not New
If you’ve danced to an Afrobeat-heavy pop song, dipped hummus, sipped coconut water, participated in a Desi-inspired color run or sported a henna tattoo, then you’ve Columbused something. Columbusing...
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Yosemite: A ‘Storied Landscape’ of War, Hope, and Beauty
How Photographer Carleton Watkins Helped Preserve Yosemite One hundred and fifty years ago, a San Francisco photographer overcame nature’s obstacles to change forever how we see California’s greatest...
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The Complex Life of ‘California’s Heartland’ On View at SF City Hall
Event Information View Larger Map The San Francisco Arts Commission’s The Valley/El Valle: Photo-essays from California’s Heartland runs through September 19, 2014 at San Francisco’s City Hall. For...
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Fly Like an Eagle: Site Picks the Best Aerial Drone Photos
An eagle soars above a national park in Bali, Indonesia. A waterfall in Mexico is seen from above its shelf of cascading water. Those are the top two finishers in a contest held to find the best images...
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Two Flights Up: Art and Text at [ 2nd floor projects ]
Just a few blocks from the bustle of 24th and Mission on a shady street up two flights of stairs, an intimate project space run by artist Margaret Tedesco provides some of the most consistently...
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Group Takes over Billboards, Bus Stops for Art
I walk through the Mission district five days a week for work, and when I think about my route from the 16th Street BART station, much of what I remember is the dirt-caked sidewalks embellished with...
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Choose Your Own Adventure Through the ‘Bay Area Now’
Every three years the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts takes stock of the art scene in the Bay Area. Always a snapshot of an active and ever-changing world, the triennial has featured work by the...
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San Quentin’s Prison Arts Project on Display at YBCA
Several years ago, when artist Henry Edward Frank was asked about his availability in a job interview he said he was only busy Friday mornings. “If I can’t have Friday mornings off, I don’t want the...
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The Return of San Francisco’s The LAB, a Historic Experimental Art Space
Last week it was announced that Bay Area curator Dena Beard, outgoing assistant curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, will assume the role of executive director at The LAB beginning...
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Behind the Scenes at White Walls/Shooting Gallery’s Latest
I was treated to a sneak preview of the new White Walls and Shooting Gallery exhibitions a couple days before opening night, which gave me a rare glimpse at the installation process for four artists....
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A Tantalizing but Unsatisfying History of Mah Jongg
I love games. Card games, board games, athletic endeavors, solitaire, puzzles, the works. But I’ve never played mah jongg. And I don’t mean the digital solitaire version, because I’ve definitely played...
View ArticleSF Conceptual Artist Discusses Why He’s Giving Away His Work
Over the decades he’s worked as an artist, Ronald Chase says he has accumulated too much of his own work. Now that he’s almost 80, the San Francisco-based conceptual artist has decided to strike a deal...
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Polite Guests from the Future: An Alternate Version of Russian History
The evening news is often a dance of fact and fiction, the truth twirling somewhere in between two or more expertly crafted fantasies. In recent months, the Russian government and media have executed...
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Group Behind Oakland’s Newest Mural Uses Walls to Depict Communities
Graffiti, street art, writers, aerosol art; no matter what you call it, painting on public walls can be controversial, commissioned or not. At its best, public art reflects the values and aspirations...
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Finding Photography ‘Secondhand’ at Pier 24
Secondhand, the first new exhibition to open at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco since July 2013, presents the work of over a dozen artists whose practice relies on the appropriation of...
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Jeffrey Blankfort Celebrates 80th Birthday by Putting His Historic Bay Area...
“Look at this guy wearing white bucks! He’s got white bucks on and the cops are dragging him away by the leg” exclaims Stephen Ehret, chuckling to himself as he clicks on a photograph of a 1964 San...
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Like, Comment, Share: Inside Facebook’s Artist-in-Residence Program
Say what you will about Facebook, the company knows how to make an impression. Its headquarters is spectacularly located on the Menlo Park shore of the Dumbarton Bridge, surrounded by salt flats and...
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Skinner, a One-Man Monster Factory, Breaks New Ground with Coloring Book
The painter/illustrator/toy designer known as Skinner is a one-man design studio that specializes in nightmares. After spending years with his head down, drawing the scary, disturbing visions that...
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The Stephen Wirtz Gallery Has Left the Building
I heard a rumor about three months ago that the Stephen Wirtz Gallery was closing and decided to just ignore it. My magical thinking was that, if I pretended I hadn’t heard it, it would turn out not to...
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Making Art of the Digital Divide at di Rosa
Event Information ‘Ones and Zeros’ A subjective look at the binary. Through Sept. 28 di Rosa preserve, Napa Details and tickets With Ones and Zeros, the gorgeous di Rosa preserve in Napa presents...
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