Wheels, Pyramids And Plates: USDA’s Struggles To Illustrate Good Diet
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s first stab at offering nutrition advice came in 1894, when W. O. Atwater, a chemist and pioneering nutrition investigator for the agency, published this warning in...
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Lego Says it’s Changing its Policy After Ai Weiwei Controversy
Lego says it’s changing its guidelines for the purchase of large amounts of its iconic toy bricks, a policy that generated a social-media firestorm when used to block sales to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei....
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David Ireland’s Cabinet of Curiosities Opens its Mission District Doors
The unassuming light gray Victorian at the corner of 20th and Capp Streets is soon to be San Francisco’s first historic artist’s home. Unlike the Pollock-Krasner House on Long Island or architect...
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Artist Uses 3D Tech to Recreate Past Destroyed by ISIS
At software company Autodesk at San Francisco’s Pier 9, the 3D printers are humming. Here, people print all kinds of things, like biofabrics, prosthetic limbs, toys, jewelry and gadgets. Morehshin...
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Black Salt Collective Agitates the Archive with ‘Visions’ at SOMArts
Opening Thursday night in SOMArts’ main gallery, bright paintings, textiles, video screens and small wooden sculptures arranged altar-like in front of a salmon-colored wall welcome viewers to Visions...
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Cy and David’s Picks: Cuban Songs, a Persian epic, and Dreamstates
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/TDL01152016.mp3 Jan. 17: Ignacio Piñeiro...
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Chris Thorson’s ‘Recognition’ Isn’t What it Looks Like
Upon first glance at the floor of the Spotlight Gallery in the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville, we might feel a natural urge to clean up. A scattering of cigarette butts and plastic bags seem...
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Asunder No More, SFAC Gallery Expands and Reopens in Civic Center
Things were bit groovier in 1970, when the San Francisco Arts Commission founded a gallery space called “Capricorn Asunder” at 155 Grove Street. Think about it: can you imagine a city agency in the San...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Art Project Pulls Back the Covers on Homelessness
For the Super Bowl’s golden anniversary, Annice Jacoby is making a blanket. The blanket doesn’t show the insignias of the two competing teams. The handmade bed covering doesn’t bear much at all, in...
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Over 40 Years of Fine Printmaking at UC Santa Cruz Celebrated in Exhibit
Legend has it that the letterpress program at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) began when a student discovered an abandoned platen press in an old Cowell Ranch outbuilding in 1973. The next year, respected San...
View ArticleCollecting Life’s Remnants with Nigel Poor
Nigel Poor is a photographer who spends time documenting everyday existence, exploring the meaning of the traces of ourselves that we leave behind. She focuses on ordinary objects and materials,...
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Bay Area Painting Right Now: Maysha Mohamedi’s Aerobic Abstractions
When I boarded BART on a beautiful December Saturday to visit Maysha Mohamedi’s San Francisco studio, I found myself on an unexpectedly crowded train — full of Santas. Yes, it was SantaCon, a day of...
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Art of the NFL: A Timely Tribute to Football in Los Gatos
If there’s any time to appreciate football-focused art, it’s right now, as Super Bowl 50 approaches. So a South Bay art gallery is capitalizing on the excitement over the “big game” to feature artists...
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Different View of ‘Custer’s Last Stand’ in Red Horse’s Battle Drawings
We don’t have any photographs of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. The large-scale dramatic paintings executed after the fact were based on eyewitness accounts — though at times, not even those....
View ArticleAi Weiwei Withdraws Works in Denmark Due to Immigration Law
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is withdrawing his works from two museums in Denmark to protest a new law that allows Danish authorities to seize valuables from migrants. “Basically it’s an...
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Meet ‘The Tenth,’ A Slick New Magazine for Queer Black Men
Where a mainstream fashion magazine might do a special “black issue,” like Italian Vogue back in 2008, or a black lifestyle magazine might run a queer feature, the perspective of queer black folks...
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Cy and David’s Picks: A New Museum, Music to Take Us to the Stars and Super...
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 Tiffany Austin Jan. 29...
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‘Architecture of Life’ an Optimistic Start For New BAMPFA
If you’ve glimpsed the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive logo — a blue conversation bubble of sorts, with the brightly-colored letters BAMPFA situated at its center — you may have...
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The Bay Bridge Lights Return for an Unlimited Engagement
Light sculptor Leo Villareal is a longtime veteran of Burning Man, where art work is sometimes consumed by fire as the festival ends. So he had no regrets when his massive installation on the Bay...
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Remembering Marvin Lipofsky, Bay Area Studio Glass Pioneer
“I was told about Marvin before I actually met him,” Fritz Dreisbach, a pioneer of the American studio glass movement, remembers of Marvin Lipofsky, a revered, Bay Area-based glass artist and educator...
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