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Haunting Photo of Migrants Takes World Press Photo’s Top Prize
An image of man passing a baby under a fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border has taken top honors at this year’s World Press Photo of the Year. The photo, titled “Hope for a New Life,” was taken by...
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Science Meets Art: Music to Fight Global Warming
The music tells a dramatic story. First, we’re zooming through the empty chill of space, then homing in on our little blue-green Earth just before the industrial age, with bird songs mixed with violin...
View ArticleVIDEO: Sneak Peak at Berkeley Rep’s ‘Macbeth’ Starring Frances McDormand and...
Now through Sunday, Apr. 10: Macbeth at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Frances McDormand (Fargo, Hail, Caesar!) and Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones) star in a production of Shakespeare’s tragedy of...
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A Trip to the ‘Up-Bay’ in Search of Vallejo’s Burgeoning Art Community
It started as a day trip and ended with searches on Zillow. We — visual arts editor Sarah Hotchkiss and KQED Arts contributor Lakshmi Sarah — had lofty goals for our sojourn to Vallejo. We would take...
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Manners Performs Utopic ‘Bodily Engagements’ at Interface Gallery
In Temescal Alley, the historic lane turned hip North Oakland marketplace, Interface Gallery hosts Bodily Engagements, an eight-week series of interdisciplinary and experiential performance projects....
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Audiences Strip Off and Get Steamy at Southern Exposure
Saunas aren’t very sociable places. People tend to sit and sweat in silence. But put a sauna in the middle of an art gallery and you get a very different vibe. In fact, it’s nothing short of a party...
View ArticlePainting A Future for Wildlife with Jane Kim and Ink Dwell
Jane Kim has painted hundreds of species of animals as a scientific illustrator who creates large scale installations and murals, “inspiring people to love and protect the earth one work of art at a...
View ArticleBlack as Ink: Revisiting Black History Through SF Artist’s Work
While discussions over Beyonce’s Super Bowl one-two punch and the continuing controversy ignited by #OscarsSoWhite packed this year’s Black History Month, art director George McCalman and content...
View ArticleChop Your Way to Enlightenment: An Illustrated Guide To Mindful Vegetable...
It’s 5:30am and my eyes spring open. I can tell I won’t be able to go back to sleep because my wakeful mind is already playing my “to do list,” “what ifs…” and “why didn’t I” stories on repeat. I roll...
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Design Team Chosen for India Basin Shoreline Parks Project
The San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks has chosen landscape architecture firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) to lead the redesign of two parks along San Francisco’s India Basin shoreline,...
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Oakland's Stories, Told Through Quilts
Some Quilts from the Exhibit “Lake Merritt Foggy Morning” by Alice Beasley “Oakland, You Are Welcome” by Teri Green “Hand’s Up, Don’t Shoot” by Jackie Houston “Firestorm” by Marion Coleman …read more...
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Artful Dodger: March Into March’s Visual Art Happenings
March has an urgency about it — likely due to the month’s name doubling as an imperative to walk determinedly. And so I urge you to move yourself, by whatever means of locomotion you prefer, to as many...
View ArticleA Boom Year for Bay Area Visual Arts
It is a big year for visual arts in the Bay Area. After being shuttered for three years, the SFMOMA will reopen as the largest modern and contemporary art museum in the country. The Berkeley Art Museum...
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SOMArts’ ‘Timeless Motion’ Electrifies Invisible Forces
In the late 19th century, at the dawn of the electric age, famous spiritualists traveled the country selling the promise of contact with “the other side.” An interest in unseen, possibly supernatural,...
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SFO Exhibit Shows How Artists Adapted Art Nouveau to Rock Posters
If you’ve wandered through the International Terminal Main Hall Departures Lobby at SFO this month, you may have noticed SFO Museum’s newest exhibit, The Allure of Art Nouveau: 1890–1914. It focuses on...
View ArticleSalvador Dali Collection Coming to Monterey
The Museum of Monterey is about to become home to the largest collection of woks by Salvador Dali on the West Coast, thanks to the arrival of 543 original etchings, lithographs, sculptures and...
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Anish Kapoor Gets Blackest Black To Himself, Enrages Everyone
Imagine you’re in preschool. Crayolas are your jam. You’re coloring up a storm. You reach for the black crayon to add some dark squiggles to your abstract expressionist masterpiece, and this other kid...
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Women Are Empowered, Vulnerable and ‘Perfect’ at Galería de la Raza
My first glimpse of the Mission’s Galería de la Raza is the kind face of an indigenous woman smiling sagely at me through the gallery’s windows, defiance reflected in her warm eyes while large pink...
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Anthony Discenza Crafts Alternate, Overlapping Realities at Catharine Clark
The free takeaway from Anthony Discenza’s current solo show at Catharine Clark Gallery (the labyrinthine-titled Anthony Discenza Presents A Novel: An Exhibition by Anthony Discenza) is an inky...
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Bay Area Painting Right Now: Sam Spano’s Blissful Interiors
In January 2016, Oakland’s City Limits held a one-night-only exhibition of new works by several artists, including Bay Area Painting Right Now alumna Lana Williams. It was a terrific show; I hope you...
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