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Inside Jasdeep Kang’s Meticulous, Interrogative Filmmaking
“Blue (American Dream),” a music video directed by filmmaker Jasdeep Kang, opens with a black woman (Tia Cabral, better known by her stage name, SPELLLING) leaning on the back of what appears to be a...
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Women to Watch: Indira Allegra
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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Women to Watch: Erin Salazar
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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VIDEO: Why French Artist Sophie Calle Bought a Burial Plot in Bolinas
Sophie Calle has been a regular visitor to in the sleepy coastal town of Bolinas ever since she launched her professional career there, producing a series of photographs of gravestones in the late...
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West Oakland Collective CTRL+SHFT Carves Out Space for Underrepresented Artists
Visitors to CTRL+SHFT’s gallery space in West Oakland immediately notice a massive, vibrantly colored painting by Oakland-based artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. Childlike confetti decorates the bottom...
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Two Artists, One Oyster-Filled Future, and the Vast Internet Archive
Oysters and the internet. Tanja Geis and Christopher Nickel, the inaugural artists of Embark Gallery’s new R&D Projects series, chose vastly different tracks in their research-based partnerships...
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On the Air: Gabe and Suzie’s Do List Picks for Aug. 11, 2017
This week, we’re talking about a Syrian wedding singer, the return of a beloved comedian, a NSFW art show, an Ethiopian jazz master, a 20th Street block party and more. Listen to the show above, or...
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Prince Gets His Own Purple
Prince was multi-chromatic; a comedian who said as few words as possible, an androgynous sex symbol, a devout mischief-maker, an artist who fused disparate styles — soul and rhythm and blues and rock...
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On the Air: Cy and Marc’s Do List Picks for Aug. 18, 2017
This week, KQED’s Cy Musiker welcomes Marc Bamuthi Joseph, an artist and curator of performing arts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The two talk about an ancient masquerade tradition, the art...
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Iconic Plague Images Are Often Not What They Seem
Many of the images we associate with the plague actually depict leprosy or smallpox. In fact, there are very few images of the Black Death from the time of the scourge. A few weeks ago, I reported a...
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Looking Back at the 1979 Eclipse Through Sarah Charlesworth’s Eyes
In 1979, when the moon last interrupted North Americans’ view of the sun, newspapers in the path of the eclipse proudly documented the moment. And Sarah Charlesworth, who would go on to have a nearly...
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Debate Reignites Over Removal of S.F. Monument
The debate over whether to take down the Pioneer Monument in San Francisco’s Civic Center emerged again amid national efforts to remove Confederate statues in the South. The monument has drawn...
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In Reckoning With Confederate Monuments, Other Countries Could Provide Examples
Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center conducted a study on public symbols of the Confederacy. The center found more than 700 Confederate monuments on public land in the U.S. — with nearly 300 in...
View ArticleAn Art Show for the Ears
Soundtracks, running through the end of the year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the museum’s first exhibit devoted to sound in modern art. The array of pieces includes whimsical Rube...
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On the Air: Cy and Jamedra’s Do List Picks for Aug. 25, 2017
On the Do List this week, we welcome back Jamedra Brown Fleischman, co-host of KQED’s podcast The Cooler, to help with the show. And we found plenty to entertain us: a singer with a luscious voice, a...
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An Expanded Vision of Healing and Divine Black Femininity
For the past seven years, Night Light has reigned as SOMArts Cultural Center’s annual audiovisual experience, where installations, live performance, and sound blanket the center as over 800 people...
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Baltimore Took Down Confederate Monuments. Now It Has To Decide What To Do...
If you walked into Baltimore’s Wyman Park Dell two weeks ago, a statue of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on horseback would have towered above you. There’s an inscription on the...
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Hope Comes to the Fore: 6 Visual Art Shows to See This Fall
Remember when all we could talk about was how 2016 had been really rough? We can’t wait for this year to end, we said. Surely whatever comes next will be better — less heartbreaking, less depressing,...
View ArticleA Bittersweet Harvest for Braceros
In the heart of wine country, the Napa Valley Museum hosts The Smithsonian presents Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964 about the Bracero program, which brought workers, mostly from...
View ArticleSpeaking Loudly with Art
The di Rosa in Napa, a gorgeous gallery set in the vineyards of southern Napa, is confronting some of the biggest issues of our age in a new show called Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times....
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