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Did We Just Miss Our Last Chance to See da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’?
When Minnesota Street Project, a gallery in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, showcased Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (“Savior of the World”) in mid-October on behalf of Christie’s auction...
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At Mills College, ‘Culture Industry’ Slyly Critiques Consumerism
Fact: I don’t fully understand what YouTube stardom is or how it’s achieved. As far as I can summize, the path to fame depends on a video going viral. The more people who see, rate, and share, the more...
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The di Rosa Embraces Community after a Brush with Disaster
Just one arts venue suffered damage in Napa Valley: the Nuns Fire burned right into the sculpture meadow at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art just south of the city of Napa. “You can see it...
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On the Air: Cy and Gabe’s Do List Picks for Nov. 24, 2017
We’ve offering a special Thanksgiving Do List for you this week, recorded at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. Consider it a treat, like pie for breakfast. My co-host, KQED Arts...
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First Queer Tattoo Fest Raises Questions Within Community
The soft hum of a tattoo needle vibrates under speakers blasting Black Sabbath in Nick Bergin’s San Mateo shop on a recent afternoon. He etches a male pin-up lounging inside a martini glass into the...
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At Mills, Local Korean-American Artists Embrace Multiple Identities
Chinktsugi is a life-size figure made of ceramic, wood, resin, and paint — the title is a play on kintsugi, the Japanese practice of fixing broken pottery. This technique uses lacquer mixed with gold...
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Gender Inequality in Bay Area Art Galleries, By the Numbers
In early November, Emily Reynolds, co-director of San Francisco’s Bass & Reiner Gallery, started a Google spreadsheet. “I spent a few hours putting it together and then a few days hand-wringing,”...
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David Hockney Treating Elementary School Students to the Opera
Roughly 50 elementary school kids from East Palo Alto are being treated this Sunday to a one-of-a-kind tour of SF Opera, led by the famous artist and opera set designer David Hockney. Following a...
View ArticleNYC Museum Refuses to Remove Controversial Painting of Girl
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has refused to remove a 1938 painting by the artist known as Balthus that depicts a young girl in what some are saying is a sexually suggestive pose. The painting...
View ArticleA Fire Relief Fundraiser in Comic Strips
One of Santa Rosa’s best arts venues is the Schulz Museum, founded by Jean Schulz, the wife Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. She lost her home in the Tubbs Fire in October, but the museum is fine and...
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Power of Sports Enacted and on Display in ‘Game Recognize Game’
Since he first took a knee during the 2016 pre-season to protest ongoing police brutality and racial inequality in this country, former San Francisco 49er quarterback and social justice advocate Colin...
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An American Procession Marching Toward Confrontation
Lots of artists have joined the so-called resistance since the election of Donald Trump as president. Among the most thoughtful are Southern California’s Sandow Birk and his wife Elyse Pignolet. The...
View ArticleOn the Air: Cy and Tomás’s Do List Picks for Dec. 15, 2017
Arts administrator and SF State Lecturer Tomás Riley returns as co-host on a show featuring fairy tale miracles, a bluegrass band, and the Mexican American Elvis doing a Christmas show. Miracles happen...
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The Bay Area’s Best Not-Always-Visual Art of 2017
It’s nearly the end of 2017. Thank goodness that’s over, I think, quickly followed by: What new horrors will 2018 bring? Speculative nonfiction aside, of all the things that happened this year, not all...
View ArticleThe Year We Couldn’t Keep Quiet
It was a year of small gains and unrelenting setbacks, but the Bay Area held strong in 2017: making inspired art, expressing ourselves and leading the national resistance. Against a backdrop of...
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Did We Just Miss Our Last Chance to See da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’?
When Minnesota Street Project, a gallery in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, showcased Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (“Savior of the World”) in mid-October on behalf of Christie’s auction...
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SF Arts Commission to Vote for Three Initial Treasure Island Art Projects
The City of San Francisco is moving closer to finalizing plans for the installation of up to $50 million worth of public art on Treasure Island. On Wednesday, the San Francisco Arts Commission will...
View ArticleDesiged with California Dreams in Mind
Beginning in the ’60s and ’70s, California designers rebelled against modernism’s one-size-fits-all mentality, blending counterculture ideals (political, social, and environmental) with product design....
View ArticleLush, Large-Scale Polaroids in the Presidio
Just a few months ago, Gallery Wendi Norris announced they’d be closing their SOMA location to focus on presenting shows in off-site locations around the world. If I Were a Poet is the first...
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In Pictures: Sharon Jones Remembered
Jacob Blickenstaff is a New York-based music photographer who worked with Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings extensively since 2009. Here, he shares archival shots of the dearly departed star. Jones’...
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