Through the Eyes of Late NPR Photojournalist David Gilkey
On Sunday, we lost one of our own. David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist who documented both tragedy and hope, was killed in Afghanistan along with NPR’s Afghan interpreter and fellow journalist...
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How to Fix an $82 Million Warhol
Stuff just happens, sometimes, even to an Andy Warhol silkscreen worth an estimated $82 million, and under constant surveillance. According to KRON 4, a visitor to the San Francisco Museum of Modern...
View ArticleCopycake: When Food Art Ideas Get Swiped
Where do you draw the line between inspiration and straight-up imitation when it comes to food? A few years ago, we brought you the story of Caitlin Freeman, a pastry chef baking innovative,...
View ArticleSpirit of Fallen Artist Rises in Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project
When 27-year-old artist Antonio Ramos was shot and killed last fall while painting a mural under a highway overpass in West Oakland, the story of his death captured national and international...
View ArticleArtist Who Painted “Trump with Micro Penis” Stars in Funny Or Die Video
Illma Gore, the San Francisco-raised artist who caused a stir earlier this year with her portrait of Donald Trump with a “micro penis,” is featured in a video on the comedy website Funny Or Die...
View ArticleBefore the Selfie: A Brief History of Looking at Ourselves
FYI: This piece is drawn from the latest episode of The Cooler podcast, which you can listen to here! Is there anyone with access to a cameraphone and a WiFi connection who can honestly say they’ve...
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Bay Area Sculpture Right Now: Welcome to Joey Enos Land
As a kid growing up in Alameda, Joey Enos was obsessed with all things Disney. “I wrote letters to Michael Eisner as a kid, begging him for a job,” he says, slightly embarrassed, standing in his...
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Historic Ruth Asawa Fountain Removed, Preserved in Santa Rosa
To the cars passing by, it looks like just another fountain, one they’ve driven past hundreds of times before. But here in Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square, today filled with loud tractors and backhoes...
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Black Men in Suits Counter Popular Media Narratives in MoAD’s ‘Dandy Lion’
The second floor of San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is lined with beautiful photos of Black men in suits. The men look like they’ve contemplated every detail of their well-fitting...
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Cy and David’s Picks: Horror on Duck Lake, Frameline at 40, and News From the...
KQED’s Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week. June 10: Eli “Paperboy” Reed is from Brookline, Massachusetts, but his music was shaped more by...
View Article“Fat Axl,” Image Control and the Damage Done
Earlier this week, it emerged that Axl Rose had issued Google with several DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices over a particularly unflattering image of himself wearing a big red...
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Stanley Cup Inspires Artwork Bet, Highbrow Trash Talk Between 2 Museums
Maybe art’s fair in love and war. While the San Jose Sharks and the Pittsburgh Penguins compete in the Stanley Cup Finals this week, museums from each city are wagering pieces from their collection...
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New 92-Foot Statue, Tallest in the City, Unveiled in Downtown San Francisco
San Francisco has a new landmark — a statue almost as tall as New York’s Statue of Liberty — and the public won’t be seeing it until next year. The 92-foot-tall “Venus” was unveiled to the media Friday...
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‘Chain Reaction’ Proves There’s at Least 21 Artists Left in San Francisco
The second exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission’s newly reopened main gallery space, housed inside the War Memorial Veterans Building, expands on its inaugural showing of just 10 Bay Area...
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No Reservations? No Problem: Walk-In Campsites Around the Bay Area
Camping is growing in popularity. According to National Park Service data, every kind of camping (tent, backcountry, RV, campsites operated by concessionaires) got a boost in the past few years with...
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Santa Cruz Art Show Redefines “Open Studios” by Putting Artists on Display
This summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ventures into new territory — by putting the artists themselves on display. In so doing, the show Art Works gives a whole new meaning to the...
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Clarion Alley Mural Project’s Decades of Dissident Artwork Now Online
Twenty-four years after its founding, the Mission’s Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP), a community-based arts space occupying the walls along a 560-foot-long alley between 17th and 18th Streets and...
View ArticleConnie Wolf Abruptly Resigns as Director of Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center
Connie Wolf, director of Stanford’s Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts for the past five years, announced Wednesday that she would be leaving her post by the end of next week, according...
View ArticleL.A. Teen Brings Home Souvenir of a Lifetime from the Summer of Love
Today, rock festivals are just part of the summer landscape. But in 1967, they were totally new. Forty-nine years ago this weekend, the Monterey International Pop Festival introduced audiences to rock...
View ArticleHead of Chicago Parks: Group Wants to Sabotage Lucas Museum
The head of the Chicago Park District says demands from a group suing to block Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas from building his museum on Chicago’s lakefront are “outrageous.” Friends of the Parks...
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