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What Happened to the 9-Year-Old Smoking in Mary Ellen Mark’s Photo?
A good photograph can speak volumes about its subjects, yet still leave you wanting to know more. The acclaimed and prolific American photographer Mary Ellen Mark, who died May 25 at the age of 75, was...
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Radical Photos Capture Indelible Moments in California’s Past
In 1927, when they were both just seventeen, Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel left their home town of Fellbach, Germany and headed to America. For the next five decades, they would make their careers as...
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Photographers Divulge Best Places to Take Wedding Pics at SF City Hall
San Francisco’s City Hall just celebrated its 100th anniversary. And with last week’s landmark Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, the many couples who nobly awaited nationwide marriage...
View ArticleMission Mural Endures Third Act of Vandalism in a Month
In the third act of vandalism this month, the mural outside the Mission district’s Galería de la Raza was set on fire Monday night. The section of Manuel Paul’s mural “Por Vida” that depicts two men...
View ArticleArt + Activism with Sanaz Mazinani
Sanaz Mazinani is an artist with a background in political activism who uses art to inspire dialogue about perceptions of cultural identity. In the latest episode of Art School, she describes her...
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Celebrities Try on Their Artist Hats, Find Not All Berets Fit
Celebrities aren’t just at the checkout aisle at the supermarket anymore. They’ve infiltrated the art world. Just a few weeks ago, MoMA’s “embarrassing” Björk show closed. Two years before, actress...
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Mission Residents Unite Over Defaced LGBTQ Mural
Hundreds of people gathered in San Francisco’s Mission District on Wednesday to rally in support of a vandalized mural that celebrates Latino LGBTQ. The rally featured speakers, dancers and poets. The...
View ArticleDavid Maisel’s Surreal Aerial Photos Reveal Scars on the American West
In 2001, during a flight in the tiny Cessna he’d chartered, photographer David Maisel felt his fingers grow so numb from the cold that he began to lose dexterity operating his medium-format camera....
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Peruvians Love Their Chicha Street Art. The Government … Not So Much
Elliot Tupac is bringing the street art of Peru to Washington, D.C. A brush in one hand, a can of spray paint in the other, a tanned Tupac is emblazoning the word “Libertad” — Spanish for freedom — in...
View ArticleAfter 11 Years, Oakland Artist Collective Forced To Find New Home
The Rock Papers Scissors Collective (RPSC), a volunteer-run communal artist space in Oakland, announced this week that it is losing its lease on the Telegraph Ave. storefront it has called home for the...
View ArticleArts Shake Up: Longtime Executive Director Leaves Southern Exposure
The San Francisco-based visual arts organization Southern Exposure announced on Tuesday that its Executive Director Courtney Fink will step down after 13 years. Fink’s exit marks the fourth such...
View ArticleA New Museum in a Changing Tenderloin
A new museum opened Thursday in downtown San Francisco. The Tenderloin Museum sits on the corner of Eddy and Leavenworth Street in the middle of one of San Francisco’s most economically and socially...
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SOMArts Drills to Vibrant Core of Bay Area Alternative Scene
Event Information ‘Making a Scene: 50 Years of Alternative Bay Area Spaces’ Venues and visionaries of a self-propelled scene. July 9-Aug. 20, 2015 SOMArts Cultural Center Details With its first seeds...
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City Plans to Transform Treasure Island with $50 Million for Public Art
In an art-themed version of the movie axiom, “if you build it, they will come,” the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) hopes to draw locals and tourists alike to Treasure Island — and not just for...
View ArticleLake Berryessa Fire Timelapse: Poetry of Smoke and Light
[vimeo 134351601 w=800 h=449] Justin Majeczky, a photographer who specializes in timelapses, was at home in the Yolo County town of Woodland on Wednesday when he saw smoke to the west. He was seeing...
View ArticleWhat Ai Weiwei’s New Passport Means for the Artist’s Career
After being jailed by the Chinese government in 2011, and his work censored in the country, the dissident artist Ai Weiwei received his passport back this week. “My heart is at peace,” the artist said...
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Giant 100-Year Old Mural Unveiled at de Young
Last week, the de Young museum installed a mural in its lobby, unseen by the public for nearly 100 years. The massive beaux-arts painting is the work of William de Leftwich Dodge, one of the most...
View ArticleRanu Mukherjee’s Hybrid Films
Ranu Mukherjee created the term hybrid film to describe her dynamic, animated artworks created with hundreds of layers of photography, paintings and digital imagery. In the latest episode of Art...
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Sexy Sculpture Fills CULT’s Summer Group Show [NSFW]
WARNING: This article contains a sexually-explicit image. Once you figure out how to pronounce it, SEXXXITECTURE begins to sound like a lifestyle blog pairing sensuous spiral staircases with trails of...
View ArticleInstagram Artist Recreates Modern Art Masterpieces out of Oreos
Instagram isn’t just for selfies or validating your self-worth anymore. It can also serve as a platform for an artistic project. A few months ago, I wrote about Sad Animal Facts, an account that...
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