Artist Koons Meets French Minister Over Sculpture Dispute
American artist Jeff Koons met with the French culture minister Tuesday amid a debate over a monumental sculpture he plans to offer Paris as a memorial to victims of the 2015 terror attacks. Two dozen...
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‘The Third Muslim’ Builds an Archive of Resistance to Stereotypes
What does it mean to be marginalized? How does it feel when a community that shares your religious beliefs in turn rejects you based on your race, gender identity, or physical ability? These are two of...
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New Art Space Cloaca Projects Fills Small Space with Big Ideas
One of San Francisco’s newest visual art spaces is also one of the trickiest to say out loud with confidence. (Runners-up in this category include KADIST and Bass & Reiner.) CLOACA PROJECTS, the...
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Truck Driver Plows Over Peru’s Nazca Lines, Leaving ‘Deep Scars’
A semitrailer driver ignored warning signs and drove over Peru’s famous Nazca Lines on Saturday, causing significant damage to the UNESCO World Heritage site. The driver, identified as 40-year-old...
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From Sandwich Shops to Cotton Mills, Art that Honors the American Worker
A lot of very hard work is going on at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. A muscled guy in an undershirt tightens a big bolt with his wrench; a farm worker bends almost in half, filling...
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di Rosa Hands Programming Over to Artists in ‘Uncertain Times’
I will freely admit to accidentally driving past di Rosa’s unassuming Carneros Highway driveway on more than one occasion — at 50mph and on a long stretch of rural sameness, it was easy to miss. But...
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Paul Clipson, Visionary Filmmaker and Projectionist, Dies at 53
Paul Clipson, the San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker once described as a “poet of cinema,” died unexpectedly Saturday at the age of 53. Clipson made dozens of short films and collaborated...
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‘Tour’ is a Twisted Place in Sonny & the Sunsets Frontman’s Art Show
To the outside observer, touring as a professional musician is all sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. But in reality, it’s full of long drives, meals at Waffle House, and the inevitable in-fighting that...
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Rainen Knecht’s Painted Ladies Have a Devilishly Fun ‘Attitude Problem’
Maybe you’ve heard of Minnesota Street Project (MSP, for those fond of acronyms), the warehouses of art spaces, studios and services in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. But have you heard of the...
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‘OK Google, Tell Me About ‘Designed in California’ at SFMOMA.’
If you visit the latest architecture and design exhibit at SFMOMA and begin to wonder if you accidentally stumbled into an electronics show, you’re probably in the right place. To the left near the...
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Paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama Unveiled at Portrait Gallery
Brand new portraits of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama — wearing matching calm, strong expressions — were revealed on Monday at the National Portrait Gallery in...
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Bay Area-Themed Valentines for 2018, From SF With Love
We know how it is. Maybe the fog has rolled in on your relationship. Or maybe you’ve had you eye on that special someone but, like the coin-op binoculars at the Cliff House, it never seems to come into...
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Kadist Exhibition Asks: What if Monuments Were More Like Bodies?
American exceptionalism has two sides — a belief not only in the moral infallibility of our country’s founding principles, but that our problems, as a result, are uniquely ours. In KADIST’s current...
View ArticleJudge Awards Graffiti Artists $6.7M After Works Destroyed
A judge awarded $6.7 million Monday to graffiti artists who sued after dozens of spray paintings were destroyed on the walls of dilapidated warehouse buildings torn down to make room for high-rise...
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Reproductions of Famous Paintings Cover Former Green Day High School
Pinole Valley High School in the East Bay already has one big claim to fame: two members of the rock band Green Day were students there before they made it big. Now the school is earning a reputation...
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‘Photography in the Americas’ Yields Much More Than Documentary
Did you feel left out while Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA took over nearly every Southern California arts institution last year? Led by the Getty, LA/LA brought Latin American and Latino art into...
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Mission District Photographer’s Final Show Becomes a Memorial
In a fitting tribute to recently-passed photographer Ted Pushinsky, his memorial will be held the night his final exhibit closes. Local Stories: Photos of San Francisco ends its run at Acción Latina’s...
View ArticleWhat Viewers Didn’t See Changed Everything for Ben Vereen
Bert Williams was one of the great black vaudevillians, but like most black performers of the era, he had to perform in blackface before white audiences. Thirty seven years ago the Broadway star Ben...
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Tales of Seeking Sanctuary Woven into 36 Rugs at Fort Mason
The For-Site Foundation, which oversaw the provocative @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz exhibition in 2014, is back with an equally thoughtful and troubling show about the idea of sanctuary as a basic...
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On the Air: Cy And Jamedra’s Do List Picks for Feb. 16, 2018
Jamedra Brown Fleischman is back as co-host this week, with her twins adding to the fun, watching from the control room of the studio. The picks this week are a reminder that we’re deep into Black...
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