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Flintstone House Owner Hires Lawyers to Fight Hillsborough Lawsuit
She’s not going down without a fight. At 85 years old, Florence Fang says she bought her bright orange, non-rectilinear “Flintstone House” in Hillsborough (after it sat on the market for two years)...
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Oakland Museum’s ‘Queer California’ Brings Lesser-Known Narratives to Life
One would never expect an exhibition about California’s LGBTQ+ past, present and desired future to be dull, but the Oakland Museum of California’s Queer California: Untold Stories, on view from April...
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Arthur Jafa Does Not Want to Be Known as ‘The Found Footage Guy’
Yes, the work that catapulted Arthur Jafa to art world fame, 2016’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death, is a powerful compilation of found footage of black joy and pain set to Kanye West’s...
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Drawing the Oakland Teachers’ Strike
When Thi Bui learned that Oakland Unified School District teachers were going on strike, she knew that had to do something. As a former teacher at Oakland International High School for seven years, she...
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Rightnowish: Refa One, Spraypaint in Hand, Honors West Oakland’s History
I stand on the corner of 14th and Peralta in West Oakland, marveling over a mural painted on the broad side of the Sav-Mor liquor store. With a brilliant blue background, African Adinkra symbols along...
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Aggregate Space Gallery Faces Displacement, Despite Doubling Budget
On Monday, Feb. 18, Conrad Meyers addressed roughly 40 supporters of Aggregate Space Gallery convened for dinner in the workshop adjacent to the nonprofit, artist-run space in Oakland. He wore...
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Rightnowish: Gavin Grant’s Visions in Woodworking
Gavin Grant didn’t set out to be a wood sculptor. In college, he signed up as a teacher’s assistant in a wood shop class—just to earn a few credits so he could graduate. And then he fell in love with...
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Photographer Robert Buelteman Will Force You to See the Natural Beauty Around Us
Montara-based Robert Buelteman made his reputation with breathtaking black-and-white photographs of the Peninsula’s wild spaces. His photos have helped raise money for local environmental groups like...
View ArticleA Book Release for Santa Rosa Cartoonist Brian Fies and ‘A Fire Story’
Shortly after Santa Rosa cartoonist Brian Fies returned home on Oct. 9, 2017 to discover that his house and all his family’s possessions had vanished in the Tubbs Fire, he bought some markers at the...
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Shannon Ebner’s Photography is Black and White and Read All Over
Shannon Ebner‘s work is a moving target. Her concentrated, multivalent investigations of the relationship between language and photographic images consistently yield unpredictable outcomes. For STRAY:...
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Whatever You Do, Definitely Do Go in the Basement of This Art Show
In October of 2017, San Francisco gallerist Wendi Norris announced she’d be giving up her eponymous downtown gallery space of eight years to “activate underutilized spaces around the world by using...
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Betti Ono Gallery Secures Long-Term Lease With City of Oakland
Oakland’s Betti Ono gallery, an eight-year-old mainstay of the downtown art scene, has secured a long-term lease for their nearly 2,600-square-foot gallery space in a property owned by the City of...
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Madeleine Albright’s Knitting Featured in Massive SF Yarn Art Project
The original purpose of Fort Point was to defend the San Francisco Bay against hostile warships. These days, the imposing, nineteenth-century brick-and-mortar edifice overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge...
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There Was So Much More to Jay DeFeo Than ‘The Rose’
For those with a bit of Bay Area art history under their belts, any mention of Jay DeFeo’s name invariably conjures looming visions of The Rose, a painting of such monumental and mythic proportions...
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Once Behind Bars, Now Behind the Camera Lens
There’s an uneasy feeling that invades your body the second you walk up the steps and through the metal detectors of the gray concrete edifice that is 850 Bryant Street. Even if you know you haven’t...
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What’s the Deal With That Neon on the Side of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium?
Tonight, the San Francisco Arts Commission will flip the switch on a large-scale neon artwork covering the western side of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. For anyone passing by Polk Street between...
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The Bay Area Gig Economy Finally Gets the Short-Film Satire it Deserves
There comes a point in everyone’s life when they want to fling their smartphone out a car window, amirite? In Bonanza’s newest short film ThunderCoat, Denise (played by Marion Anthonisen) reaches her...
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California College of the Arts Campus Consolidation Spurs Union Effort
California College of the Arts staff will vote Monday in a union election, continuing a labor organizing trend in the arts and higher education sectors as the cost of living outpaces wage growth in the...
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Young San Jose Poets Urge Us All to Pick Up That Trash, Pretty Please
The idea is so obvious and clever, you wonder why this kind of thing isn’t everywhere: children’s poems about our troubled planet, urging us to keep it clean. Or cleaner, anyways. Starting with litter....
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WPA Models at Local Libraries Offer a Glimpse of San Francisco Last Seen in 1942
The San Francisco Public Library contains multitudes. Yes, books. But also e-books, audiobooks, vinyl records, DVDs, video streaming services, museum passes available for checkout, laptops available...
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