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Undocumented Youth Tell Their Stories on Instagram
If you’re like most people, your Instagram feed is populated with food, vacations, selfies and cats. And then there’s the Undocumented Lives account — containing, as an example, a photograph by Diana...
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Suzie & Gabe’s Picks: A World Series Singer, Mid-Century Design, and 50 Years...
Correction: The tribute to ‘Sgt. Peppers’ takes place Friday and Saturday, June 2–3, not Thursday and Friday as stated. Details here. Festival season is heating up, with an upcoming deluge of bands...
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Tabitha Soren Captures the Other Side of Baseball in New Book
During her eight years with MTV News, Tabitha Soren brought journalistic gravitas to a network that focused on celebrity and drama. Her interview with Tupac Shakur still stands as one of his most...
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For a Few Hours, a Sculpted Dog was Urinating on the ‘Fearless Girl’
For a few hours Monday, the bitter face-off between a bull and a girl in New York City got a curious, four-legged interloper: a tiny pug, with one of those legs suggestively raised beside the girl’s...
View ArticleKathy Griffin Apologizes for Trump Photo
Kathy Griffin says she went way too far when she appeared in a brief video Tuesday holding what looked like President Donald Trump’s bloody, severed head. The comic posted a video later Tuesday...
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2nd Noose Found in D.C., This Time at African-American History Museum
Visitors found a noose Wednesday at an exhibition on segregation at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. — the second time in less than a week that a noose...
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Remember That Time When Wonder Woman Was a U.N. Ambassador?
Wonder Woman is certainly basking in accolades these days. The new movie starring Gal Gadot is being widely praised for finally giving the world a big-screen female superhero who — to quote just a few...
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Cy and Rachael’s Picks: Nashville Soul, Timeless Jazz, San Jose’s First...
KQED’s Cy Musiker and Rachael Myrow share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week. First things first: thanks to Suzie Racho and Gabe Meline for filling in these past few weeks while...
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She Photographed Jimi Hendrix Without Knowing His Name
In 1967, Elaine Mayes was living in a Haight-Ashbury commune and piecing together work as a photojournalist. With national media swarming the neighborhood, she saw firsthand, at 30, just how carelessly...
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William Krisel, who Helped Define California Modernism, Dies at 92
William Krisel, a pioneering architect who brought his vision of modernism to Southern California tract housing, died Monday at age 92. Tract housing often implies cookie-cutter. But in Palm Springs,...
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Something For Everyone in a Summer of Bay Area Visual Art
No one’s summer style is exactly the same — some people can’t wait to break out the flip-flops, while for others, the sight of bare toes is anxiety-inducing. Which is exactly why there’s no...
View ArticleCity of SF Cancels Multimillion-Dollar Transbay Terminal Art Project
A 41-foot high art installation that the city of San Francisco planned to unveil as part of its new $6 billion Transbay Transit Center has been canceled and its lead artist released from his contract....
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Art Collector Sells a Lichtenstein to Fund Criminal Justice Reform
A noted art collector and philanthropist has sold a major painting for an eye-popping $165 million to raise money for criminal justice reform. Agnes Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 work Masterpiece,...
View ArticleDali’s Bones to be Exhumed in Spain for Paternity Test
A Spanish judge on Monday ordered the remains of artist Salvador Dali to be exhumed to settle a paternity suit, despite opposition from the state-run foundation that manages the artist’s estate. Dali,...
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In Henry Wessel’s Photos of ’90s Richmond Homes, Lives Are in The Details
Spending time with Henry Wessel’s Real Estate Photographs, 40 color photographs taken from a car window of houses in and around Richmond, Calif., in 1990 and ’91, I began noticing garden hoses. The...
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You Don’t Have to Fly Halfway Around the World to Find the Art You’re Looking...
I recently flew to Europe to look at art. The main draw was documenta 14, the 14th iteration of a once-every-five-years exhibition (a quinquennial, I learned) that takes over the German city of Kassel...
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Making Queer and Trans Asian American Identities Visible
In Mia Nakano’s portrait of Kay Ulanday Barrett, the self-identified queer, trans, Pinay-American, disabled poet stares at the camera, glasses lightly propped upon the nose, short black hair styled...
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A Film Claims to Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart’s Fate
The photo is haunting. Among a number of figures gathered on a dock, the fuzzy image seems to be that of a woman, her back to the camera, gazing at what may be her crippled aircraft loaded on a barge,...
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Cy and Sarah’s Picks: A Tale of Four Immigrants, Photos of Injustice, and a...
My co-host this week is Sarah Sexton, an Oakland music promoter, founder of the record label Oakland Indie Mayhem, and one of KQED’s ‘Women to Watch’ in 2016. The best part of doing the show with...
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‘Architecture Of An Asylum’ Tracks History of U.S. Treatment of Mental Illness
When I moved to Washington, D.C., in 1962, St. Elizabeths Hospital was notorious — a rundown federal facility for the treatment of people with mental illness that was overcrowded and understaffed....
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