San Francisco Studio Provides Light Show for the Vatican
Obscura Digital, a creative studio based in San Francisco, helped the Vatican kick off the year-long Jubilee of Mercy last week by projecting high-definition images onto St. Peter’s Basilica. The...
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The True Story of How Art Saved Yosemite Valley
The history of Yosemite Valley is long and storied, complete with the eradication of the grizzly bear population, adventurous entrepreneurs, violently displaced native peoples and the bizarre...
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A Different Kind of Rock Show at the Oakland Museum of California
No, I’m not talking about the Rolling Stones. When I say “rock show,” I mean the back corner of the Oakland Museum of California’s art galleries, hosting UNEARTHED: Found + Made, a quiet but engrossing...
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‘Littoral Drift’ Delivers Chaos with a Dash of Control at SF Camerawork
Photographer Meghann Riepenhoff makes her San Francisco debut with Littoral Drift, a gorgeous installation of cyanotypes now on view at SF Camerawork. The exhibition explores intriguing ideas of...
View ArticleTsunami Boat Creates Ties Between Crescent City and Japanese Fishing Town
In March 2011, a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan. The damage was so severe that the small fishing town of Rikuzentakata was nearly flattened with 80 percent of it destroyed...
View ArticleIn Clovis: 1 Street, 16 Houses, 100,000 Christmas Lights. Plus Music.
Deb and Terry Toews have been happily married for 26 years. They’re best friends, they say. And every year they try to envision an even brighter future — for their front yard, that is. They’ve spent...
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Cy and David’s Picks: Bulletproof Stockings and Killer Shows in 2016
Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week. http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2015/12/TDL20151225.mp3 Harvey Weinapel, Jane Lenoir,...
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Is this Snowy Wonderland or the World Inside a Petri Dish?
Do you remember cutting paper snowflakes in school? Artist Rogan Brown has elevated that simple seasonal art form and taken it to science class. These large-scale paper sculptures may evoke snow, but...
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Reflecting on Art: The Eight Best Things I Saw in 2015
For the Bay Area visual arts community, 2016 can’t come fast enough. There’s so much to look forward to — and thankfully, that long period of deprivation is almost over. For example, 500 Capp Street,...
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Bright, Young, in Limbo: Film Sees Migrant Farm Life Through a Child’s Eyes
José Anzaldo is a bright, cheerful third-grader in Salinas, Calif. He loves school, he’s a whiz at math, and, like lots of little boys his age, he wants to be a firefighter when he grows up. He also...
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Cy and David’s Picks: Red Horse at the Little Big Horn and a Jazz Voyager
Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week. http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2015/12/TDL010116.mp3 Jan. 5 & 6: The Stylistics...
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Artful Dodger: Visual Art Happenings for a New Year
It might be the lingering effects of champagne, but it has been extra difficult culling January’s visual arts offerings down into a tidy list of five. The end of the month is particularly packed....
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Tax Burning Man? Nevada Considers It, Promoters Bristle
Tens of thousands of Burning Man fans are waiting for 2016 tickets to go on sale, but first, they’ll have to wait for the non-profit to resolve a tax dispute with Nevada. The non-profit that runs...
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How Senior Fashion is Turning Heads in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Furry hats, custom bags, hand-sewn sweaters, and lots of wild prints. These bold fashions are all the rage among the elders of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Buck Chew at the opening of the Chinatown...
View ArticleDaniel Clowes Boycotting Comic Award Contest Bereft of Female Nominees
Daniel Clowes announced Tuesday that he is pulling himself from a list of 30 nominees for a prestigious comic award in support of a boycott of the contest over the fact that all the nominees were men....
View ArticleJudge: Monkey Cannot Own Copyright to Its Selfie Photos
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos. U.S. District Judge William Orrick said in...
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Where Have All the Art Stores Gone?
At a moment when any change in the urban landscape feels like a crisis, FLAX art & design, the art supply store, has announced plans to relocate its flagship Market Street location to Oakland as...
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Monkey Can’t Own Copyright to his Selfie, Federal Judge Says
The legal saga of the monkey selfie continues: On Wednesday, a federal judge said the macaque who famously snapped a picture of himself cannot be declared the owner of the image’s copyright. At least,...
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Cy and David’s Picks: Food, Death, and Classic Rock
KQED’s Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week. http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2016/01/20160108tdl.mp3...
View ArticleOakland Committee to Vote on Establishing New Arts District
Oaklanders often claim the city has the country’s highest number of artists per capita, but those artists worry that the city’s rising rents will push them and arts organizations out of “the Town”,...
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