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Craig Calderwood Complicates—and Queers—Craft Supplies
One of the most iconic burns in the history of The Simpsons occurs in the episode “Two Dozen and One Greyhounds.” In the wake of a botched dinner party, Rev. Lovejoy storms out of the Simpsons’ dining...
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Cathy Lu’s ‘Peach Garden’ Steams up the Outer Sunset
Long before peaches came to mean—ahem—something else, they were Chinese symbols of longevity and prosperity. “I didn’t really know about it growing up,” says ceramics artist Cathy Lu of the peach’s...
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‘Contact Warhol’ Dives into Andy’s Obsessions with Sex and Celebrity
Before there was Instagram and Snapchat, there was Andy Warhol. He anticipated the way we would come to openly acknowledge and then celebrate our fascination with pop culture and, really, ourselves....
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Exhibitions Across the Bay Area Remember the North Bay Fires
As Bay Area communities reflect on the days that forever changed their landscape, relationships and local economies, art institutions have stepped up to provide room for that contemplation, proving the...
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Zio Ziegler’s ‘Fourth Wall’ Captures One Instant in a Practice of Restless Vigor
According to a quick survey of his one-man show at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, here’s what Mill Valley-based artist Zio Ziegler is interested in at this very moment: mouths, eyes and other...
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A Century Ago, She Photographed Herself in Nature, Naked and Unafraid
In response to the imposing and extractive Land Art of the 1960s and 1970s, artist Judy Chicago once said: “I was and am horrified by the masculine built environment and the masculine gesture of...
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You Can Touch the Art, But Only Because it Gave You Permission
Amanda Curreri’s current exhibition at Romer Young Gallery starts with a bit of concrete poetry. In the press release, on three lines, the Cincinnati-based artist selectively eliminates letters from...
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Ever-Expanding ‘Verasphere’ Testifies to the Restorative Power of Creativity
On top of Duboce Park, the current exhibition at the Harvey Milk Photo Center offers a kaleidoscope of community, couture trash fashion and LGBTQ history. Verasphere: 25 Years of Art & Love...
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Hip-Hop Photographer B+ Shot Just About Anyone That Mattered
It only took three years for Brian Cross to make his mark in America. After moving from Ireland in 1990, the naturally curious Cross researched, wrote, photographed and published It’s Not About a...
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In ‘Undocumented Heart,’ Day Laborers Turn their Migration Stories into Art
On the same day demonstrators took over the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. to protest the confirmation of controversial Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, across the country in...
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Woody De Othello Believes in the Secret Life of Objects
After hours, when the bright fluorescent lights of Jessica Silverman Gallery are turned off, and when the security gates are rolled shut, I like to imagine that Woody De Othello’s ceramics slowly,...
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Pics or it Didn’t Happen: How San Francisco and Los Angeles Grew Up
California’s photographic history begins when California does. That is, when the state of California does (the land, its native people and their colonizers existed long before 1850, known by Ohlone and...
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Prepping for Art Basel, Toxic Waste Face Bring Mind-Melting Drag to The Stud
Toxic Waste Face combines the superpowers of avant-drag performers Jader (one of the stars of KQED Arts’ Changing Face of Drag series), Vainhein and Pseuda to venture beyond gender-bending and into...
View ArticleSouthern Exposure Announces Resignation of Executive Director
San Francisco visual arts nonprofit Southern Exposure announced Thursday that its Executive Director Patricia Maloney, who has held the position since March 2016, will resign at the end of 2018. “Over...
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Etel Adnan May Be the World’s Greatest Living Colorist
One of the most exciting recent developments in art has been the critical and commercial resurgence of female artists in their senior years. Working for decades at the industry’s margins or completely...
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With Midterms Approaching, Artists Take Creative Action at CCA
With the Nov. 6 midterm elections less than two weeks away (DON’T FORGET TO VOTE), a sleek show at California College of the Art’s Hubbell Street Galleries reminds audiences that all good art is...
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Womxn* Art Handlers Carefully Deinstall Glass Ceiling of the Preparator World
On a recent Wednesday evening after hours at Jessica Silverman Gallery, a group of over a dozen art handlers sat in a circle on the floor describing how they ended up in this line of work—a largely...
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Bruce Munro’s Narnian Fantasies Light Up Montalvo Arts Center
The Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga is a romantic place when the sun goes down. A warm South Bay wind blows through the towering trees. The warm burble of laughter and conversation from party goers in...
View ArticleSFAI Town Hall Opens the Doors for Public Response to Exhibitions Program
Last month, when KQED Arts reported on the alarming disappearance of three full-time curatorial positions from three Bay Area arts institutions, there was an outpouring of public outcry, and a...
View ArticleThomas Campbell, Former Met Director, to Head de Young and Legion of Honor
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, parent organization to the de Young and Legion of Honor museums, announced the appointment of Thomas Campbell as director and CEO Tuesday, ending a six-month...
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