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Pack your Planner with Visual Arts this Fall
Has it been a year already? Do you find yourself paging through your planner — sorry, thumbing through the digital calendar of your smart phone — in disbelief? Resist the urge to panic. Embrace that...
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Art, Architecture and Wine take a Seismic Hit in Napa
Napa’s charming, historic downtown buildings suffered heartbreaking damage from the Aug. 24 earthquake, and the same is true for the area’s arts organizations, who are now in need of some serious...
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Scratching the Surface: a Guide to South Bay Arts & Culture
Perhaps you should be listening to the track “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” in the background as you read this. No, scratch that. Forget what you know. I mean, literally, scratch it… like DJ QBert...
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Art Galore On the Waterfront in Sausalito
Event Information Sausalito Art Festival Three-day event of art and music. Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2014 Marinship Park Details and tickets Now in its 62nd year, this venerable outdoor festival showcases the...
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Popping off the Walls at Cantor
Event Information Pop Art from the Anderson Collection Ten important Modern pieces Aug 2014 – Oct 2015 Cantor Arts Center Details and tickets Harry and Mary Margaret Anderson, known around Stanford as...
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Dream But Don’t Sleep: Remembering Mike “Dream” Francisco
Event Information The Dream Kontinues Short film about the Oakland graffiti artist Dream. Aug. 31, 2014 4pm Eastside Arts Alliance Details and tickets The first time Pendarvis Harshaw ever cruised...
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Stay in the East Bay for Art and Music this Fall
If you don’t already live in the East Bay, your friends probably do, and it might be time to consider a move over the bridge anyway. There are endless opportunities for fall entertainment in the East...
View ArticlePrintmaking with Favianna Rodriguez
Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary visual artist and community organizer who merges her artistic practice with political activism. Through her bold, vivid artwork, she has become a leading...
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The World Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
Event Information BigPicture Striking exhibition of nature photography. Through Nov. 2, 2014 California Academy of Sciences Details and tickets The Academy of Sciences has already hosted comedians,...
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When Earthquakes Aren’t Really Earthquakes
Event Information ‘The Reflector Project’ Unique interactive exhibit showing human-based seismic activity in real time. Sept. 12-Oct. 18, 2014 Luggage Store Gallery Details and tickets Many in the Bay...
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Laurina Paperina Kills Her Heroes
Installation shot of Proud To Be a Hero at Fouladi Projects; Photo by Kristen Farr It’s been five years since Laurina Paperina has exhibited her work in San Francisco, and boy, did we miss her. As an...
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Timothy Buckwalter Lives the Dream at NIAD
Portrait of Timothy Buckwalter by Tony Datillo A couple years ago, Timothy Buckwalter began to proclaim — loudly — on Facebook that he had landed his “dream job.” Then, in the weeks following this...
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In Unseen Photos, a Clearer Picture of Robert Frank’s America
Event Information ‘Robert Frank in America’ Exhibit of photographer’s rare images. Sept. 10, 2014-Jan. 5, 2015 Cantor Arts Center Details and tickets The 1959 publication of photographer Robert...
View ArticleNo Man Is an Island: Ai Weiwei’s Life and Art Before Alcatraz
Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei’s prominence in the public eye is largely fueled by his absence. Unable to leave China since 2011 — after being held in detention for 81 days on tax evasion...
View ArticleElements of Art: Shape
Continue gaining fluency in the language of the Arts with the second installment in our Elements of Art series. Shape is one of the seven basic building blocks of art along with Line, Form, Texture,...
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Taraneh Hemami Creates a Market of Iranian Dissent at Southern Exposure
Event Information ‘Theory of Survival: Fabrications’ Pop-up bazaars weave culture, history, and reflection. Sept. 5 – Oct. 25, 2014 Southern Exposure Details and tickets Racks and shelves of colorful...
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‘I Was Born to Give Out My Opinions’: An Ai Weiwei Top Ten
Chinese artist and antagonist extraordinaire Ai Weiwei came to the attention of the western art establishment as the market for contemporary Asian art flourished beginning in the late 1990s. Ai has...
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First Look: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
Listen to Mina Kim’s KQED News report on the installation. http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2014/09/530NewsAiWeiWei.mp3 A detail from “Trace” shows a portrait of Edward Snowden, the...
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Radio Show: The One About Free Speech and a Boy Band Survivor
Cy Musiker and David Wiegand scout the Bay Area for things to do this week and turn up a wealth of jazz, a musical memoir about student protest, a free show from a big name in landscape art and more....
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Robert Adams’ Journey to Nehalem Bay
The most compelling thing about landscape photography is not its ability to replicate the vastness of the wilderness, the tempestuous ocean, or the complexity of an old-growth forest. In fact, the...
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