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Mexican Museum Finally Getting the Home it Deserves
After 40 years of delays and false starts, San Francisco’s Mexican Museum is finally getting a new home in the Yerba Buena Art District next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM). City and museum...
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Ed Ruscha Dreams of Empty Streets in His Version of the Great American West
The story of Ed Ruscha, the iconic 78-year-old, Los Angeles-based artist whose work defines a certain brand of sun-drenched California cool, could be told in a multitude of ways. “But there’s not time...
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Women to Watch: Ana Teresa Fernandez
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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First Person: Kayan Cheung-Miaw Honors the Dead with Art
How do you honor the dead? In my culture we do it with numbers. In a family, each child gets a number “fifth sister, seventh brother,” even the children who die as infants. In this way, we honor and...
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Cy and David’s Picks: The Russians are Coming, Speaking to Angels, and...
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/2016/07/TDL20160722.mp3 July 22, Aug. 12 &...
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Women to Watch: Jessica Sabogal
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 ArticleDede Wilsey Resigns as de Young & Legion of Honor Board Chair
Dede Wilsey is a powerful fundraiser and donor on the San Francisco arts scene. But her 20-year tenure as president and four-year tenure as CEO of the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco...
View ArticleGet Excited: Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel Are About to Save the Day
A little over a year ago, comic book-loving women all over the country sat down to watch the first trailers for CBS’s brand-new Supergirl series, only to find themselves filled with what can only be...
View ArticleKid Curator: How To Look at Public Art
Have you ever wondered about the public art you see around town? Do you know how to find the meaning of outdoor sculptures and paintings? Join an adorable six-year-old host on a journey to discover...
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OMCA ‘Wants You to Know’ Your West Oakland Neighbors
The result of a coordinated effort between the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), social practice artist Chris Treggiari, community organizations and over 700 locals is Oakland, I want you to know…,...
View ArticleJack Davis, ‘Mad’ Magazine Artist and Prolific Illustrator, Dead at 91
Jack Davis, the prolific Mad magazine illustrator, cartoonist and movie poster artist, has died. He died Wednesday morning, according to his son-in-law, Chris Lloyd. He passed away in St. Simons,...
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Abundance to Absence, California’s History Told Through Its Water
The leading hypothesis on the origin of the word “California” is that Spanish colonists named their discovery of what is now the peninsula of Baja California after a mythical island in a 16th-century...
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Hapa Population Reflects on Art and Identity in New San Jose Exhibition
Walk to one corner of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose’s newest exhibit and you’ll find yourself face to face with a wall of Post-its. The Post-its are medium sized, in pastel pinks, blues and...
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Ed Drew’s ‘Native Portraits’ Drawn from Talking Circles, Fixed on Tintypes
On July 21, Spayne Martinez walked into the California Historical Society at the corner of Annie and Mission Streets in San Francisco. As an Academy of Art University alumna, she probably walked past...
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Betty Guy, Internationally Renowned Watercolor Artist, Dead at 95
Betty Guy, a beloved, internationally-renowned watercolor artist and San Francisco native, has died. She was 95. Guy, who passed away on July 22 at her home in Bernal Heights, was the house artist for...
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Crack the Code to Sacred Black Womanhood at SOMArts
Let go of what you think you know about Black womanhood. SOMArts’ current exhibit, The Black Woman is God: Reprogramming That God Code takes the viewer on a journey beyond definitions, stereotypes and...
View ArticleA Fresh Look at Celebrity Portraiture: County Fair 2016 Edition
Each year when I attend the county fair to observe the local amateur art exhibition, I inevitably think to myself, “You can keep your Roberta Smiths and Jerry Saltzes of the world, gallivanting from...
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Bay Area Sculpture Right Now: Nicki Green’s Talismans of Queer Subtlety
When artist Nicki Green moved to San Francisco from New York to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, she knew she’d come to the right place. “I think I called my parents right after landing and was...
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Artful Dodger: No Rest in August, Art Happenings Aplenty
If, like me, you’re scratching your head wondering where the heck July went, you probably haven’t planned much for August, our final foggy month of “summer” in the Bay Area. And usually that would be...
View ArticleYoung Inmates Help Turn Solitary Confinement Cells Into Art Spaces
Green paint covered tattoos on the girls’ hands as they worked on the mural. At Camp Joseph Scott, a juvenile detention center in Santa Clarita, five girls worked on the wall – some standing, some...
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