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Meet Jeff Marshall, the Kite Maker of the Tenderloin
It was 1993 when Jeff Marshall, a 35-year-old born and raised Houstonian, had enough of the Texas heat. So he hitched up his motorcycle and headed for Seattle. Except he never quite got there....
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‘Beyond The Streets,’ and Far From Vandalism: Street Art Gets a Massive Show
Outlaws. That’s what they were considered when they spray-painted walls and bombed subway cars with modern-day hieroglyphics. They worked in alleys and train yards, bridges and tunnels. Now, many of...
View ArticleSan Francisco to Reconsider Removal of Statue Deemed Racist
Activists urging the removal of a prominent 19th century statue in San Francisco depicting a Native American at the feet of a Spanish cowboy and a Catholic missionary will get another chance to make...
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Janelle Monae to Host ‘Dirty Computer’ Screening at Feels 6 Art Preview
Feels 6, an Oakland-born art and music fest, is resurfacing in Richmond on June 16 after a two year lull, with headliners Kelis, Princess Nokia and Mykki Blanco. And Wine & Bowties, the creative...
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Unidentified Thief Caught on Camera Stealing $45,000 Banksy Print from Exhibit
Right around dawn Sunday, an unidentified person stole into an art exhibition space in Toronto. Encased in a sweatshirt, with hands in armpits and face obscured by a camouflage cap, the dark-dressed...
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Photos and Recap: Wine & Bowties’ FEELS VI at the Craneway Pavilion
After a two-year absence, the Wine & Bowties crew brought back its massive party/show/festival/celebration FEELS at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond over the weekend. Though the venue may have...
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‘It Was Hard to Take These Pictures, Knowing What Was Coming Next’
Sometimes, an image breaks through and captures the essence of a story that we’ve all been hearing about. John Moore made one of those images last week, when he photographed a 2-year-old Honduran girl...
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Amidst ‘Way Bay 2,’ Rediscovering the Audacious Life of Frank Moore
Way Bay 2, the second installment of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s Bay Area survey, opened on June 13 with some changes to the previous show. Part California history lesson and...
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‘It’s Horrifying’: 10 Bay Area Artists Speak Out on Child Detainment at the...
This week, we learned that the U.S. has separated over 2,300 children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and placed them in chain-link cages, tent camps and other detainment centers. Audio...
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Smithsonian Reveals Winning Design for New Native American Veterans Memorial
Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has announced the winning concept for the National Native American Veterans Memorial: Multimedia artist Harvey Pratt’s...
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This Page Intentionally Left Blank: An Incomplete History of Peregrine Press
Two things you will not learn about Henry Evans upon visiting the cozy Union-Square-adjacent fifth floor rooms of the Book Club of California: in 1955, Evans passed up the opportunity to publish Allen...
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Part Two of di Rosa’s ‘Be Not Still’ a Lesson in the Importance of Being Earnest
According to the exhibition’s internal logic, the young man in the photograph wearing little more than a smear of lip gloss and a 10-inch strap-on is a witness; the three life-sized figures made of...
View ArticleCalifornia Gives Millions to Cheech Marin’s Chicano Art Museum
Just months after California legalized recreational marijuana the state is giving stoner comedian Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum $9.7 million. It must be kismet. The money was rolled up in the $139...
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At the Education Department, Student Artworks Explore Tolerance and Racism
Empathy, tolerance and acceptance: More and more, educators are focusing on the importance of schools’ paying attention to stuff other than academics. And for the past two months, an exhibit at the...
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Pier 24 Offers a Dark Look at America’s Past Decade in ‘This Land’
“This is not,” Alec Soth says, “a happy-go-lucky portrait of society.” While Soth’s exhibition-guide description refers to only his own series Songbook (black-and-white depictions of small-town life,...
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London Mayor Says ‘Trump Baby’ Blimp Can Fly In Protest of President Trump’s...
The “Trump Baby” blimp is nearly 20 feet tall, wearing nothing but a diaper and a grimace. A tuft of yellow hair tops his orange head. He is armed with a cellphone, ready to tweet. And now he is nearly...
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‘Undocu-Queer’ Artist Julio Salgado on Creative Resistance
As protests against President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policies continue across the country, Julio Salgado‘s art feels more resonant than ever. Salgado, a queer, undocumented artist and...
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Provocative Textile Art in San Jose Targets America’s Tolerance for Mass...
You’ve got one more week to check out Guns: Loaded Conversations at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. So go! Few issues are so polarizing politically, but as the number of mass shootings...
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Oakland DOT’s New Mural Program is Street Art—Literally
This summer, the Oakland Department of Transportation (OakDOT) is bringing neighborhoods together to beautify their streets as part of a new program called “Paint The Town.” The program, which began in...
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Pure Visual Indulgence at the Legion of Honor’s ‘Truth and Beauty’
Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is an escape. In the mausoleum-like lower galleries at the Legion of Honor, there are no windows to remind you of the outside world. There’s...
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