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What You Could Take Away From ‘David Bowie Is’
There is a wonderful irony in a career retrospective of a living artist that becomes so popular it outlives its subject. In 2010 — long before David Bowie Is travelled to ten other locations around the...
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Snapchat’s Stock Sinks After Rihanna Denounces Domestic Violence Ad
Singer Rihanna denounced an ad that appeared on Snapchat making a game of domestic violence that featured photographs of her and Chris Brown. And the social media app’s stock price went tumbling. “Now...
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Celebrating Rube Goldberg’s Dada-Like Cartoon Inventions
Rube Goldberg grew up in San Francisco and became one of the world’s most famous cartoonists in the 30’s and 40’s — an era when everyone read the funnies in their daily newspapers. He was especially...
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On the Air: Cy and Tomás’ Do List Picks for March 23, 2018
Our favorite arts administrator Tomás Riley (formerly with CounterPulse) is back as co-host, and the show is music heavy (a good thing), with electro-pop from Emily Afton, a new song cycle about being...
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Mural of Pint-Sized Immigration Activist Sophie Cruz Beams Over San Jose
If you’ve walked past the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose in recent weeks, you’ve seen it going up…a giant mural of a little girl. The dedication is Saturday, and likely to benefit from the...
View ArticleStreet Artist Reflects Native American Dignity at a Monumental Scale
High atop a scissor lift in Oakland, wheat-pasting a 25-foot wide upside-down American flag, Chip Thomas takes pride in his role as a provocateur. But put the 61-year-old photographer and street artist...
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Congress Takes a Brush to the Budget, Barring Federal Funds for Portraits
Updated at 5:50 p.m. ET For many elected officials, it’s something of a rite of passage: After getting to Capitol Hill, bearing their constituents’ hopes and fears on their shoulders, virtually every...
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At the CJM, ‘Rube Goldberg’ is an Adjective, Not a Verb
It’s not often a cartoonist achieves notoriety of such a level that his or her name comes to stand for something else. Usually their characters live on, their images morphing into decals on cars’ rear...
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The Hustle: A Photographer Juggling Contract Gigs, Toddler in Tow
Note: ‘The Hustle’ is a KQED Arts series exploring how artists make ends meet in the Bay Area. After an exodus of artists priced out of the region, every Thursday in March and April we talk with a...
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3 Photographers Who Captured the Undersides of Life
We snap a selfie with the tap of a finger. We’re used to preserving smiling moments. At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, there’s an exhibit right now which goes to darker places with a...
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A Blip on the Screen in 1969, When Artists Made TV for KQED
It’s my third visit in as many days to McEvoy Foundation for the Arts’ screening room in San Francisco, and I’m fully captivated by what it’s showing — a presentation of early experimental video,...
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Cult of the Machine Explores the Magnetic Pull of Industrial Design
You’re going to want to block out a few hours to see Cult of the Machine at the de Young Museum. The exhibit is a comprehensive exploration of the Precisionists, a group of U.S. artists enthralled by...
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On the Air: Rachael and Sahba’s Do List Picks for Apr. 7, 2018
Rachael Myrow here, pinch-hitting for Cy Musiker this week. Naturally, I picked a co-host from Palo Alto — visual artist and salon organizer Sabha Shere — and we talked about the upcoming concerts and...
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‘Testimony’ Complicates Assumptions with Empathetic Portraits of Immigrants
How we’ve come to see immigration and its larger political narrative, and policies, is so often ham-fisted into a general categorization of feeling. It’s a strict black or white, good or bad, depending...
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Trevor Paglen Turns ‘Impossible Objects’ into a Space-Bound Reality
Trevor Paglen’s new show is called Impossible Objects, but the drawings, prototypes, and photographs on display at Altman Siegel document a project, that, while seemingly implausible, is very much...
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Get Out of Town! For SF Galleries, It’s a Growing Trend
The way Lauren Licata explains it, the impetus behind setting up a timeshare gallery in New York’s Lower East Side was “cognitive dissonance.” The co-founder and director of R/SF projects, a...
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Next! Search for New FAMSF Director Is On After The Met Poaches Max Hollein
Max Hollein has only been in the San Francisco Bay Area for two years, but in his short tenure as the head of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, he caught the eye of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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Isamu Noguchi’s Playful Side on View at SFO’s International Terminal
Inside SFO’s International Hall, before you get to security, there’s a visual treat you don’t need a ticket to see: two giant cases displaying Isamu Noguchi: Inside and Out. You’ve probably seen at...
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The Meaning of the Elusive Single Family Home at the San Jose Museum of Art
My daughter has a close friend who often says, “I’m a millennial, which means I’ll never own a home.” What a sad comment. But it’s pretty realistic here in the Bay Area, with its elusive and...
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On the Air: Cy and Ariana’s Do List Picks for April 20, 2018
On The Do List this week, we’re welcoming the return to the Bay Area of Tony Kushner’s mind-bogglingly brilliant play Angels in America, plus an art exhibition in San Jose on the meaning of the house,...
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