Poet and Art Critic Bill Berkson Dies at 76
San Francisco poet, art critic and teacher Bill Berkson has died at the age of 76. He was a longtime professor of art history at the San Francisco Art Institute. Berkson’s stepdaughter Nina Lewallen...
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Cute Animal Murals Guard Against Pollution in SF’s Mission Bay
If you live in San Francisco, chances are you dutifully sort your trash into three bins, pat yourself on the back and call it a day, knowing Recology takes care of the rest. But outside the comfort of...
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Prisoner’s Scarlett Johansson Portrait Provides Path Towards Redemption
Solano State Prison inmate Greg Colignese, 45, is taking a drawing and painting class. About 20 others prisoners sit around tables in one of the prison’s recreation rooms. They’re working on all kinds...
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Women to Watch: Dana Harris Seeger
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2016. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
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A Starkly Different Iron Man: Black, Female, and 15 Years Old
Her name is Riri Williams. She reverse-engineered her own version of the Iron Man battlesuit in her MIT dorm room, got kicked out, and struck out on her own to do the superhero thing. Clumsily at...
View ArticleNew York City to Name Intersection ‘Bill Cunningham Corner’
A Manhattan street corner will be temporarily named for longtime fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, who died last month. Cunningham, who took pictures of everyday people on the streets of New York...
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Women to Watch: Ranu Mukherjee
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2016. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
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Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí the New Toast of Monterey
The largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí on the West Coast opened to the public on Thursday. More than 570 etchings, lithographs, sculptures and tapestries essentially took over the Museum of...
View ArticleSF’s Fine Arts Museums Hires New Curator for a New Job
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) announced Wednesday that Claudia Schmuckli will be become its Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming. Schmuckli comes to this newly created...
View ArticleGalería de la Raza Denied Long-Term Lease For San Francisco Space
San Francisco’s Galería de la Raza has been told by its landlord that it will not be given a long-term lease for the space it’s occupied in the Mission District for over 43 years, gallery...
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Women to Watch: Lily Chou
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2016. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
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At LA’s MOCA, a Celebrated Chef Serves Up Dinner as Art Installation
Many chefs think of themselves as artists in the kitchen. Craig Thornton has taken it to another level: For the past five months, he’s been serving up multi-course meals as part of a room-size...
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Women to Watch: Amanda Arkansassy Harris
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2016. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
View ArticleBurning Man Disputes $2.8M Bill for Federal Land Use Permit
Burning Man organizers are disputing their $2.8 million bill from the federal government — the cost last year of hosting its popular outdoor festival in the Black Rock Desert, a national conservation...
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Cy and David’s Picks: An Artist of the West, A Song from Hades, and a Play...
KQED’s Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week. July 16: Parker Milsap sings about Hades’s (Greek god of the underworld) love for Persephone in...
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Women to Watch: Brittsense
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2016. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
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When You’re a Nomad, You Need Portable Art
Think of it as art to go — and on the go. That’s the theme for the exhibition “Designs for Mobile Living: Art from Eastern Africa” at the Baltimore Museum of Art. There are a mere 28 objects, ranging...
View ArticleL.A.’s Museum of Broken Relationships Finds Closure on Hollywood Boulevard
When Croatian artists Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić ended their romance in 2003, they were left with ordinary, seemingly insignificant items they’d shared that had meaning only to them. So they...
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Women to Watch: Jean Melesaine
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2016. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
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Trail-Blazing Bay Area Photographer Gets Her Due in Los Gatos Exhibition
You may not recognize her name, but you’ve probably seen one of Anne Brigman’s photos before. She photographed people — including herself — nude, in dramatic poses against wild, natural backdrops,...
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