Make Your Own Political Art in 5 Easy Steps
For hundreds of years, artists have used their work to spread messages about important issues. Eye-catching artworks can help start a dialogue about social justice, as well as raise awareness for...
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Can One Artist’s Work Prompt Conversations About Border Politics?
Called a “Mexican terrorist” after a recent show in Arizona, Ana Teresa Fernández’s work is powerful in its command of artistic practice as well as the themes she chooses to tackle. Born in Mexico,...
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Cy and David’s Picks: The Racial Politics of Sugar, a Magic Dragon, and The...
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/2016/04/TDL20160408.mp3 April 8 & 9: Both...
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Kate Haug Unearths History of Poor People’s Campaign in ‘News Today’
Forty-eight years ago today, on April 9, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s casket made a three-mile journey from Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia to a public service at Morehouse College. The...
View ArticleSex, Drugs, and Equal Pay: Wimmen’s Comix Get Their Due
Underground comics enjoyed a golden age in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, and the heady, weed-scented thrum of San Francisco was its heartbeat. R. Crumb’s gleefully filthy Zap Comix premiered in 1968...
View ArticleIllma Communication: Naked Trump Portrait on Display in London Gallery
The infamous “Donald Trump with a Micropenis” portrait, created by artist and Bay Area native Ashley “Illma” Gore, went on display at a gallery in London last week after she was unable to find a...
View ArticleBetter Late Than Never: Olympic Champion Greg Louganis Gets His Wheaties Box
In his competitive diving career, four-time Olympic diving gold medalist and five-time world champion Greg Louganis has been all over the world. Now he’ll be in one place that’s eluded him for years:...
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A Disturbance in The Fur-ce: Event Renamed After Lucasfilm Notice
The world record-breaking Light Battle Tour, which drew large crowds during its stop in the Embarcadero’s Sue Bierman Park last December, will now be known as Cats in Space Tour after a legal...
View ArticleLost In Translation: Study Finds Interpretation Of Emojis Can Vary Widely
Emojis were supposed to be the great equalizer: a language all its own capable of transcending borders and cultural differences. Not so fast, say a group of researchers who found that different people...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates Pivots From Politics to Comic Books with ‘Black Panther’
One of America’s most popular writers on race is now concentrating on the life of the superhero king of a mythical African country. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ lifelong love of comic books made him jump at the...
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Quilts Help Stitch Together New Perception of East Palo Alto’s Cooley Landing
Cooley Landing, on the shores of East Palo Alto, has been used and abused over the last century. It was even the San Mateo County dump for a couple of decades. But a local environmental artist is...
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Stanford’s New Map Center Lets You Get Up Close & Personal
One of the largest map collections in the country is about to open at Stanford. The David Rumsey Map Center is not just big in size, with more than 150,000 items, including rare first editions. It’s...
View ArticleSee How San Francisco Rebuilt 110 Years After the 1906 Quake
At 5:12 a.m. the shaking started 110 years ago today. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake and ensuing fires destroyed more than 80 percent of San Francisco and killed about 3,000 people. The destruction...
View ArticleEnduring Portrait of Berkeley’s Boulevard of the Unconventional
For decades, Telegraph Avenue has been the Boulevard of Unconventional Berkeley — a Bohemian enclave, then the Free Speech Movement, anti-Vietnam War, People’s Park, hippies, punks, street people....
View ArticleBill Graham and the 'Rock & Roll Revolution'
From the mid 60’s until his death in a helicopter crash in 1991, Bill Graham was at the center of the Bay Area’s rock and roll scene, producing nearly every significant rock concert in the region...
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‘Dancers We Lost’ Honors Bay Area Dancers who Died of AIDS
A new exhibition of photographs housed at the Community Gallery at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood gathers together a series of portraits of Bay Area dancers who died...
View ArticleHarriet Tubman to Replace Slave-Holder Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill
Last year, I wrote about Women On 20s, an organization whose mission is to put a woman’s face on paper currency by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to...
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Revolutionary Artists Cut Deep in San Jose’s ‘MONARCA’ Exhibition
Yescka’s call to action as an artist truly began in 2006 during the Oaxaca teachers’ strike, when a tear gas canister hit him in the chest at close range. Thinking he had been hit with a bullet, he...
View ArticleDe Young and Legion of Honor Announce Price Increase
Visiting San Francisco’s de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor will cost more starting in July. The board that oversees the two nationally prominent art institutions, collectively known as the Fine...
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Mariana Castillo Deball Strings Together Artifacts and Absences at SFAI
I try not to put the word “history” in my headlines, under the (likely correct) assumption that any mere mention of the subject causes eyes to glaze over. And once the eyes glaze over, the...
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