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Reproduction of Banksy’s “Haight Street Rat” Just Fan Art
Tough luck for local Banksy fans: the iconic “Haight Street Rat” mural that popped up in San Francisco earlier this week is merely an homage to the notorious street artist and not an authentic Banksy....
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Veteran Nude Art Model Bob Webb Strikes a Pose [NSFW]
Note: This video has male nudity. You might not think to look twice at Bob Webb on the street, but for nearly 50 years artists have been paying to look at him — naked. Webb began modeling in his home...
View ArticleQuestion Raised About Timeline of Amelia Earhart Documentary
A Japanese military history buff has apparently undermined a new theory that Amelia Earhart survived a crash-landing in the Pacific Ocean during her historic attempted round-the-world flight in 1937....
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Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Welcomes You
At the end of a rare appearance from Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries last week at the Asian Art Museum, an audience member asked the Seoul-based digital poetry pioneers what piece of literature has...
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‘Pavilions’ Offers a Primer on Structures Built for Pure Pleasure
The pavilion is an architectural outlier. Traditionally a freestanding, temporary structure, it can provide utility or shelter, but more often than not its true purpose is pure spectacle. Imagine the...
View ArticleMexican Museum Defends Collection Over Authenticity Concerns
San Francisco’s Mexican Museum is defending itself against criticisms surrounding the authenticity of some of its holdings. In a press conference on Thursday, museum officials responded to reports...
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Tight on Wall Space, SFMOMA Will Text Its Art to You Instead
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has some 34,000 works in its collection — but you’ll only find a fraction of those up on the wall. “A little under 2,000 of them are on view at any one time in...
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Cy and A-lan’s Picks: Brave New Voices, Seeking Sanctuary, and Divine Black...
My co-host this week is A-lan Holt, a playwright and movie maker (Inamorata– with a screening August 4th at the Blackstar Film Fest), and the Associate Director of Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in...
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Women to Watch: Black Salt Collective
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2017. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
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How Drawing 1001 Black Men Helped an Artist to See
The first drawing in Ajuan Mance’s sketchbook-journal-art-project series, 1001 Black Men, is the torso of a shirtless, African-American man — inspired by the men who play basketball on the corner of...
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‘Writing on the Wall’ Captures Divisive Politics in Textural Traces
Bay Area native Richard Misrach has traveled across the United States over the course of his celebrated four-decade career. In that time, he’s captured the loneliness that shadows leisure and the...
View ArticleCalifornia License Plates May Feature Art from Berkeley Teacher
Protest art can be found in unexpected places, but it could soon be on license plates with the passage of one California state senator’s bill. SB 309, a bill authored by state senator Hannah-Beth...
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Salvador Dalí’s Remains Exhumed, Revealing A Perfectly Arranged Mustache
The remains of Salvador Dalí were exhumed Thursday night, pulled from their resting place by Spanish officials hoping to confirm whether the surrealist painter fathered a child in an affair. The closed...
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At Legion of Honor, Sarah Lucas Mocks Rodin’s Muse
If the Legion of Honor’s grandiose marble architecture evokes a regal sincerity plucked from the past, then British sculptor Sarah Lucas’ work, installed through September between the building’s...
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Printing For The Movement: A Love Story
How do you make a poster that inspires, organizes and illustrates a social movement? For printmakers Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza, the duo behind the Oakland-based graphic arts collaboration...
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Women to Watch: Taravat Talepasand
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2017. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
View ArticleWanna See SFMOMA’s Art Collection? Text Them
The SFMOMA has some 34-thousand pieces of art in its collection. But the museum only has room to show about five percent of it. Wanna see the rest? Text them. This is how it works: text the number...
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Blacklisted Cuban Artist Brings Extreme Political Art to Bay
The first day of school can be boring. Usually it’s the teacher going over the syllabus, setting ground rules and taking attendance. But Escuela de Arte Útil isn’t your typical school. Held in a big...
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Cy and Ariana’s Picks: Poets on Art, Drawing on Everything, and Jazz for a...
This week we welcome back as co-host KQED Youth Media Manager and music geek Ariana Proehl. Despite the fact that it’s summer, we are overstocked with cool stuff: We didn’t have a chance to talk about...
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Women to Watch: Amy M. Ho
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2017. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography...
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