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Diaspora in Bloom: Assyrian-American Art on View in San Jose
How much do you know about Assyrians? For many Americans, it’s news we have members of the ancient Middle Eastern ethnic group living here in the U.S. today. Members of the Assyrian diaspora are spread...
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Dystopian Dreams and Goofy Sci Fi Humor at San Jose’s MACLA
Science fiction has always been a creative space for working out our deepest hopes and fears about the future, and really, the present. White males have dominated the genre for decades, but that’s not...
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In San Jose’s Japantown, Contemporary Transience Takes on Historical Weight
For the four artists in ArtObjectGallery’s Transient Existence, the exhibition title refers not just to their own experiences of living abroad (all were born in Japan, but two now live in the Bay Area,...
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Elise Ferguson’s ‘June Room’ Stretches Its Stripes and Curves Beyond the...
Depending on which route you take to Romer Young Gallery, you might pass the Woods Operating Division of the San Francisco Municipal Transit System. And if you fail to notice this nondescript box of a...
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‘This Is Reparations:’ S.F. School Board Votes to Paint Over Controversial...
The San Francisco Board of Education voted Tuesday to paint over a mural series showing George Washington as a slave owner and promoter of the United States’ genocidal westward expansion, acknowledging...
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SFO’s Harvey Milk Terminal 1 to Open With New Public Art
When you’re listing off the Bay Area’s great art collections, chances are you’re forgetting one very important stockpile of visual art—the airport. Outside of local museums, the San Francisco...
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500 Capp Street Lays Off Head Curator, Creates Confusion About Future...
In a decision that shocked the Bay Area art scene, 500 Capp Street Foundation’s Board of Directors suddenly laid off the nonprofit arts organization’s head curator, Bob Linder, on Wednesday, creating...
View ArticleRichard-Jonathan Nelson Weaves a Speculative Future
In this solo exhibition, Oakland-based artist Richard-Jonathan Nelson combines craft practices like embroidery, weaving and quilting with digital imagery to depict Black bodies in speculative futures...
View ArticleGet ‘Far Out’ With Space Suits and Cosmic Dwellings at SFMOMA
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of “one giant leap for mankind,” SFMOMA’s architecture and design department revisits past visions of space travel and some more recent contributions to the...
View Article‘San Quentin Project’ Analyzes Prison Imagery at BAMPFA
Fans of the podcast Ear Hustle already know Nigel Poor’s voice, but this BAMPFA exhibition provides an opportunity to witness another, more visual side of the artist’s work within San Quentin State...
View ArticlePio Abad Mines Philippine History in ‘Kiss the Hand’
After three months in residence researching Bay Area narratives of exile and displacement, London-based and Manila-born artist Pio Abad debuts a newly commissioned body of work that ties the history of...
View ArticleLaurie Reid’s Zips and Flits of Color Fill Et al. Gallery
Berkeley-based artist Laurie Reid shows new works on rough-edged paper, delicately painting what gallery co-director Aaron Harbour calls “zips and flits of color.” Even with the simplest materials,...
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At Adrian Rosenfeld, a Lesser-Known Chapter in Minimalism
When Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery arrived at Minnesota Street Project’s 1150 25th Street location (down the street and up the hill from the main gallery building), the first thing I heard was, “You have to...
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Alaska Native Girl Leads Animated Kids TV Show in U.S. First
Princess Daazhraii Johnson grew up eating dried salmon and moose-head soup — foods labeled weird by other kids who had no understanding of her culture and traditions. Now the Fairbanks woman and other...
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Smithsonian Museum Considers Collecting Drawings Made By Detained Migrant...
Updated at 1 p.m. ET The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History may add drawings made by formerly detained migrant children to its famous collection. The drawings depict time spent in the...
View ArticleLee Friedlander’s ‘Signs’ of the Times at Fraenkel Gallery
Depending on who you ask, the name “Lee Friedlander” means different things. For some , he’s the photographer behind dozens of iconic jazz album covers put out by Atlantic Records in the 50s and 60s....
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Ed Hardy Retrospective at de Young Looks Beyond the T-Shirts and Trucker Hats
Ask the average person what they think of when they hear the name Ed Hardy, and you’ll get some combination of “trucker hats,” “dragon T-shirts,” and, occasionally, words like “douchey.” That was at...
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Daria Martin Films Her Grandmother’s Dreams in ‘Tonight the World’
It will take decades to parse the repercussions of contemporary political decisions, but analogous moments in history already exist. Examples of racism and intolerance, tightened borders, deportations,...
View Article‘Steven Leiber Catalogs,’ On the Page and in Person
In the mix of the enormous bounty of offerings filling Minnesota Street Project during this weekend’s San Francisco Art Book Fair, one book, one show and one panel discussion deserve special mention....
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Robot Performance and Augmented Reality? Gray Area Fest Explores Art’s New...
As digital artist Tarik Barri astutely observes on his website, when we look at a bird we don’t think to ourselves, “Hey, the way these visuals and this audio go together is really nice and well...
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