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Apple Cracks Down on Drones Filming Construction of Apple Park
A local drone pilot says Apple security has prevented him from filming the construction of the company’s new Apple Park headquarters. Since August 2015, Duncan Sinfield has been filming at Apple Park...
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With Paint and a Camera, She’s Forging a New Artistic Vision of Africa
Many images of Africa in Western media focus on war, famine or other crises that trouble the continent. But Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh wants to help people understand that there’s more to her...
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SmugMug Acquires Flickr, Promises to Keep Community Alive
Flickr, the image- and video-hosting site that created an online community long before apps like Instagram and Snapchat, has been acquired by rival service SmugMug. The new owners informed users Monday...
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‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Will Face Down Stock Exchange, Not ‘Charging Bull’
The Fearless Girl statue, which has stared down the Manhattan financial district’s famous Charging Bull for more than a year, will be relocating to a spot in front of the New York Stock Exchange. The...
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Not Your Grandmother’s Quilts in an Exhibition on Gun Violence
The timing is, sadly, just right for a new show at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. It’s called Guns: Loaded Conversations, and if you think quilts are just a collage of pretty patches for...
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On the Air: Cy and Nick’s Do List Picks for April 27, 2018
The Do List was taken over this week and we’re delighted. My co-host is Nick Abraham, a member of KQED’s Youth Advisory Board, guitarist in the band Unpopular Opinion, a high school junior at Sequoia...
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Mama Penny Bear’s Back Story Is As Delightful As You’d Expect
The sculpture is 12 feet tall — 12 feet six inches if you count the ears. A 5,700 pound grizzly bear with two cubs nestled into her side. She has a fancy Latin name, Ursa Mater, but really, everyone...
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KPIX Anchor-Turned-Sculptor Contributes Piece to Lynching Memorial
Dana King says she’s visited the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. five times in three days, and each time she’s seen it, she’s cried. “It’s awe-inspiring, it’s humbling,...
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Join a Human Bank of Fog, Courtesy of Art Collective Futurefarmers
Founded by artist Amy Franceschini in San Francisco in 1995, Futurefarmers is a group of artists, farmers, architects, and designers who create participatory art projects that address a diversity of...
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‘¡Murales Rebeldes!’ Celebrates the Lost-But-Not-Forgotten Murals of Los Angeles
This year for Cinco de Mayo, instead of donning a plastic sombrero and a technicolor poncho and drinking a sugar-based cocktail out of a giant plastic goblet, I behoove you to celebrate by learning the...
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A Festival of Transformative Art at YBCA
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, the Yerba Buena Center for the Art’s chief of pedagogy, says he was thinking recently about President John F. Kennedy’s call for the U.S. to send a man to the moon. “Kennedy...
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(Many) Years of Artistic Experience on View at Marin Civic Center
I often publicly state a desire for a narrower journalistic beat. “Instead of all of Bay Area visual arts and film, what if I only covered artists over the age of 70?” This is what I ask my editor...
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On the Air: Cy and Gabe’s Do List Picks for May 4, 2018
We had terrible news this week. San Francisco Chronicle Assistant Managing Editor David Wiegand, my founding co-anchor on The Do List, was found dead in his home on Tuesday. He was omnivorous in his...
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Goodnight Projects Calls it a Day After 9 Years in San Francisco
Goodnight Projects, the unassuming apartment gallery in San Francisco’s Noe Valley, is moving out. To celebrate its 9 years of hosting casual events and wonderful art, it holds one last party on...
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How A Synesthetic Artist Sees Sounds And Turns Music Into Paintings
Artist Christina Eve has synesthesia, a rare neurological condition that entwines the senses. In Christina Eve’s case, she sees sounds. Last year she sent me a handful of her colorful paintings she...
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Other Americas Appear in SF Camerawork’s ‘Focal Points’
The three-person exhibition now filling SF Camerawork’s second-floor gallery space could easily be titled Other Americas, or even Policing of the Past, Present and Future. Instead, it’s Focal Points,...
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Bask in Bay Area Art: The Summer Show Edition
It’s “summer” in the Bay Area, whatever that means when you still have to carry a sweater around. Casting about for what to do this season? A few suggestions: try a new ice cream flavor, catch a few...
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Timely ‘House Imaginary’ Reflects on Memories and Meanings of Home
“Home.” “House.” The terms are often used interchangeably, but a profound psychological divide separates the two. In an impressive multi-disciplinary installation, the artists featured in the San Jose...
View ArticleRaised in the SF Art Scene and Having His First Solo Show
Our visual arts pick this week is More Water, a show by Yarrow Slaps at State Gallery in the Mission. Yarrow is no stranger to the local art scene; his parents founded the Luggage Store Gallery almost...
View ArticleCasually Assured Artworks Grace Et al. in ‘Everything Changes’
If I could make this web post turn into a flashing neon sign, it would read, “LAST CHANCE! LAST CHANCE!” Brandon Walls Olsen and Julie Lai’s two-person show at Et al.’s Chinatown space is on view...
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