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On the Air: Cy, Rachael and Gabe’s Do List Picks for Sept. 1, 2017
On the Do List this week, KQED’s Cy Musiker welcomes co-hosts Rachael Myrow and Gabe Meline for a highly selective preview of the best shows and exhibits of the fall season. (Next week, The Do List...
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ICA’s ‘Detritus’ Looks at What Artists Leave Behind
It’s a group exhibition of Bay Area artists with a twist: instead of showing artworks, Detritus displays the byproducts of making. By “byproducts,” I mean objects that might, in some cases, be...
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At Last, a Space For the Philippines at the Asian Art Museum
While browsing the labyrinth of the Asian Art Museum near Civic Center station, it’s very possible that viewers might look through centuries worth of art from the Asian diaspora before finding the two...
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Meet Me in the Google Doc For, Uh… a Performance?
For many — myself included — Google Docs is more than just an online word processing platform, it’s a way of life. Why save files to a clunky old hard drive when you can access your documents from...
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Death of Local Character Bubbles Leads to Investigation of Strip Club
San Francisco’s LGBTQ scene was reeling Monday after Bubbles, a local DJ, artist and queer activist was shot to death over the weekend near a Tenderloin strip club. The incident has led one San...
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A Museum Show That Welcomes Selfies
Museums around the world are split on the selfie, often banning selfie sticks — fearing the damage that a careless, self-absorbed patron might cause to the artwork — but encouraging hand-held selfies...
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Making Iran and Oakland Feel Like the Same Place
Upon entering the darkness of Aggregate Space Gallery (ASG) in West Oakland, I’m immediately greeted by a bright, LED-lit image of two women’s profiles in a video installation titled “Although the...
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Headlands Balances Preservation and Intervention with New Artist Commissions
Headlands Center for the Arts has a new drinking fountain. This is a big deal. Anyone who’s spent time rambling through the Marin Headlands knows sweeping vistas are legion, but drinking fountains are...
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At Royal NoneSuch, an Artist Talk Gets Lively with Chess and Animation
Artist talks are whatever, right? The settings don’t usually help: darkened auditoriums with a 75-percent chance of also being stuffy. The acoustics are often strange, if not terrible. Talks themselves...
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Photographic Portraits Bring You Face to Face With the Vietnam War
They’re older and grayer now, the men and women who stare unsmiling into the camera. Their figures, shot against a black background, are superimposed on jungle foliage. It looks as if they’ve been...
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At City Limits, Sofía Córdova Imagines Life After Humanity
Scientists who wish to highlight the incredible — and largely destructive — impact humans have had on the planet have proposed the term “Anthropocene” for a new geological epoch. This term has been...
View ArticleFrom SF to NYC, He Was the ‘Human Instamatic’
In 2017, we’re all on Instagram, but in the late ’70s one man was known as the “Human Instamatic.” That was Martin Wong, whose posthumous exhibit Martin Wong: Human Instamatic is at BAMPFA through Dec....
View ArticleVallejo Memorial Mural Painted Over by Crew for ‘Transformers’ Movie
A Hollywood producer apologized profusely Monday after a film crew shooting in Vallejo painted over a beloved mural earlier this week. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, one of the producers behind Transformers...
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An Artist Chuckles and the Audience Follows in Cantor’s ‘Curiouser’
What makes Nina Katchadourian laugh? This is the question that has occupied my mind since viewing Curiouser, Katchadourian’s mid-career retrospective now on view at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor...
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On the Air: Gabe and Suzie’s Do List Picks for Sept. 22, 2017
This week on the Do List, the cat (Cy Musiker) is away, and the mice (Gabe Meline and Suzie Racho) take over! Listen to the picks above, and click through for more details on each show below. Now...
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de Young’s ‘Revelations’ Unveils a Hidden History of Black Artistic Resistance
A black-and-white photo by Jack R. Thornell in the first room of the de Young’s Revelations: Art from the African American South is forever burned in my mind’s eye. A black man lies bleeding on the...
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Asian Art Museum Moves Toward $90 Million Transformation
San Francisco’s Asian Art museum is moving forward with a $90 million transformation project. The plans announced Tuesday feature a big, new exhibition pavilion with a rooftop terrace....
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In Silicon Valley, An Ever-Growing Market for South Asian Art
On a recent Saturday morning, a handful of people milled about a spacious private home in Saratoga, looking at paintings leaning up against the walls and hitched up on easels. The home’s owner,...
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Nearly Forgotten by History, Charles Howard Still Surprises
BAMPFA’s Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos brings a long-lost artist home. Charles Howard graduated from Berkeley High School and attended UC Berekeley in the 1910s. His father, John Galen Howard, the...
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‘Comfort Women’ Statue Strains 60-Year San Francisco-Osaka Alliance
This year, San Francisco and the Japanese city of Osaka celebrate 60 years of their sister city alliance. But a new statue in San Francisco has angered Osaka officials, and endangers the cities’ long...
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