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Can “Minority” Artists Just Be Artists?
Growing up in a mixed-race family, the question of imposed identity was something that always interested Rhiannon MacFadyen. The black side of her family was highly educated, while the white side was...
View ArticleL.A. Exhibit Makes Disposable Plastic Trash Impossible to Ignore
Discarded plastic cups and bottles are so prevalent, they’re almost invisible. Whether it’s an iced coffee cup from Starbucks or a red Solo cup at a party, or a water bottle bought from a gas station,...
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James Turrell in Palo Alto: Hot Art Bling the New Thing on the Peninsula
The coming relaunch of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has lots of people buzzing in anticipation. But downtown San Francisco is not the only place where truly exciting things are happening on...
View Article#BayBackWhen: We Want Your Vintage Family Photographs From the 1960s!
In association with the broadcast premiere of Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue on Tuesday, May 3, at 8 pm on KQED 9 Do your family albums contain vintage snaps of you or your parents — or perhaps your...
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How Does the Influence of Grace Jones Impact Art Today?
Opening the door to The Grace Jones Project at the Museum of the Africa Diaspora is like entering the shrine of a living goddess. In the center of the gallery two display walls separate the space,...
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Charles Gatewood, Groundbreaking Photographer, Dead at 73
Charles Gatewood, an award-winning photographer who shot both celebrities and counter culture figures, including the Hell’s Angels and erotic performance artists like Annie Sprinkle, died Thursday from...
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Artful Dodger: Maximize Your May With Visual Art Happenings
Remember when SFMOMA’s reopening was still hundreds of days away? The time just flew by and now their countdown clock is in its tweens. On May 14, SFMOMA reopens as one of the largest museums in the...
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PHOTOS: The 1960s San Francisco Bay Area, Seen Though Family Albums
To celebrate the broadcast premiere of Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue on Tuesday, May 3 on KQED 9, we asked our social media fans to delve into their family albums and show us their snapshots taken...
View Article‘Tiny Kitchen’ Videos Cook Up Real Food In Doll-Sized Portions
Honey, I shrunk the queso. They’ve fried hard shell tacos, made a comforting bowl of chicken noodle soup, even whipped up a batch of rainbow sprinkle-covered doughnuts. In an age of molecular...
View Article‘Tattooed and Tenacious’ Reveals Badass Legacy of Female Tattoo Artists
When History San José recruited Sarah Grossman to show her work in the Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History exhibition along with a handful of other South Bay female tattoo...
View ArticleArt School: Apexer on Street Art Murals
Apexer is a street artist who creates colorful, spray-painted murals around the world. Using a visual foundation based in graffiti art and Chinese calligraphy, Apexer abstracts letterforms to create...
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Welcome to SFMOMA’s Infrequently Asked Questions Page
With the reopening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art just around the corner, future museum-goers are naturally inclined to wonder about certain things. Online, SFMOMA’s frequently asked...
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Cy and David’s Picks: A Water Ballet, a Rogue Wave, and the Biggest Museum in...
May 7 & June 4: Lucius singers and keyboard players Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig dress as identical twins (though they’re not) for all of this band’s gigs as “sort of a giggle.” And the band’s...
View ArticlePrized Murals at Pauline Kael’s Former Home in Berkeley Are Saved
Murals painted by the artist Jess in film critic Pauline Kael’s former home on Oregon Street in Berkeley have been saved. A 29-year-old tech worker who comes from a family of artists purchased the 1905...
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Tabitha Soren’s ‘Fantasy Life’ Processes Baseball Through Artistic Filter
Tucked away in the tree-lined hills of Berkeley, stationed among a compound of wood cottages, is Tabitha Soren’s darkroom: a converted garage that’s so cramped it would give anyone who’s claustrophobic...
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Displacement Fuels Questions in Artist Otobong Nkanga’s Performances
Otobong Nkanga is driven by what appears to be an insatiable curiosity about the world around her. Born in Kano, Nigeria and based in Antwerp, Belgium, her biography touches on every continent but...
View ArticleSOMArts Hires SFMOMA’s Maria Jenson to Be Its New Director
SOMArts Cultural Center, the city-funded artist incubator, gallery and performance space, announced Thursday that it has hired San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art’s Maria Jenson to be its new...
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Shiny, New SFMOMA a ‘Who’s Who’ of 20th Century Art. So What’s Missing?
In one of the galleries in the spacious new wing of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), triangular and oval canvases painted in bright oranges, yellows and greens by Ellsworth Kelly swirl...
View ArticleSan Francisco Supervisor Talking with George Lucas About Museum Site
A San Francisco Board of Supervisors member says the city has had preliminary discussions with George Lucas’ representatives about building his museum on an island in San Francisco Bay, instead of in...
View ArticleFacebook CEO to Meet With Glenn Beck, Other Conservatives
Radio host Glenn Beck and American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks are some of the conservative leaders Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to meet with this week. The meeting, scheduled...
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