The Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for July 19–21
It’s time for the weekend! Looking for things to do? Listen to KQED Arts’ Gabe Meline and Sarah Hotchkiss discuss their critic’s picks for this weekend at the audio link above, or read about each event...
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Rightnowish: Intergenerational Painting with Mujer Muralista
Over on Foothill Boulevard in East Oakland, right next to Cesar Chavez park, there’s a small restaurant called La Casita. On the gate to an adjacent alleyway, there’s a painting that reads “Oakland...
View Article‘Art of Peace’ Turns Guns into Symbols of Healing
Getting firearms off the streets and into galleries might not, at first, sound like the correct order of operations, but Art of Peace, a free show opening July 23 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,...
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The Importance of Recreation in Jarrel Phillips’‘How We Play’ Exhibition
Jarrel Phillips is a unique character. He’s from San Francisco’s Fillmore area, raised out there in the ’90s and early 2000s, at the tail end of when Fillmore was “Fillmoe.” That’s where he soaked up...
View ArticleThe Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for July 25–Aug. 2
It’s time for the weekend! Looking for things to do in the Bay Area? Listen to KQED Arts’ Gabe Meline and Nastia Voynovskaya discuss their critic’s picks for this weekend at the audio link above, and...
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How the Bay Area’s Sudanese Community Mobilized for the Revolution
“Harrowing” doesn’t come close to describing the scene in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum last month. After Omar al-Bashir‘s 30-year rule came to an end in April following four months of protest,...
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Rightnowish: Don Tamaki on Japanese Internment and ‘Then They Came For Me’
On a summer day in San Francisco clear enough to see beyond the Golden Gate Bridge from the Presidio, I walked into the building at 100 Montgomery Street for an exhibition of photos taken from a...
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Art Installation Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Creates Joyful ‘Togetherness’
A stretch of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico was adorned with a set of pink see-saws this week — allowing children (and grownups) to play together across the barrier. The event was “filled...
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April Dawn Alison’s Private Polaroids Reveal an Artist Creating Herself
In a one-room show on the San Francisco Museum of Art’s third floor, a “new to the collection” exhibition of framed Polaroids is actually new to just about everyone, a treasure trove of secret...
View ArticleDionne Lee’s Watery Exhibition Fills Interface Gallery
Dionne Lee’s elegant installation at Oakland’s Interface Gallery is a show of just six works—a number that belies the wide-ranging references within. Running, rigging, wading looks at the generative...
View Article‘The Long Look’ Wants to Improve Your Art-Viewing Habits
When you visit a museum or a gallery, how much time do you spend looking at an individual work of art? A minute? Three seconds? The average, studies find, is somewhere around 17 seconds. To combat this...
View ArticleAunt Charlie’s, SF’s Working Class Drag Bar, Gets the Museum Treatment
Aunt Charlie’s, a narrow hallway of a bar on Turk Street, has long been a venue and refuge of critical importance to San Francisco drag queens and the broader queer community. Now one of the longest...
View ArticleThe Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 2–9
It’s time for the weekend! Looking for things to do in the Bay Area? Listen to KQED Arts’ Gabe Meline and Sarah Hotchkiss discuss their critic’s picks for this weekend at the audio link above, and read...
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Sara VanDerBeek’s ‘Roman Women’ Disrupt the Past in Living Color
Color has long been contentious—even Plato and Aristotle disagreed as to whether it helped or hindered the aim of art, which was always the imitation of nature. Color was decorative, even false, but...
View ArticleThe Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 9–15
It’s time for the weekend! Looking for things to do in the Bay Area? Listen to KQED Arts’ Gabe Meline and Nastia Voynovskaya discuss their critic’s picks for this weekend at the audio link above, and...
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Steel, Wood and … Uranium Ore? Vallejo Show Draws From City’s Naval History
Matthew Kerkof is good at convincing people to visit Vallejo. And no, he is not employed by the city’s chamber of commerce. He’s an artist with a garage-turned-exhibition space, dubbed Brittany after...
View ArticleWatch ‘Ghost’ With a Bunch of Ceramicists in Oakland
Film history is filled to the brim with depictions of fictional painters and sculptors (personal fave: Julianne Moore in The Big Lebowski), performance artists and oh-so-many aspiring filmmakers, but...
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How Artists Transformed San Francisco’s Trash into an Audacious Runway Show
Despite the extravagant, bombastic name, the members of Bonanza (the collaborative art practice of Conrad Guevara, Lindsay Tully and Lana Williams), aren’t as interested in occupying the spotlight as...
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Dream Day 2019: Celebrating Mike ‘Dream’ Francisco’s 50th Birthday
On Aug. 17, Mosswood Park in Oakland will be full of people gathered in celebration of the 50th birthday of the late, great Mike “Dream” Francisco. Dream, a legendary graffiti writer, was raised in...
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Kahlil Joseph Broadcasts the Vastness of Black Life in ‘BLKNWS’
Editor’s note: Please welcome a new monthly column from writer, editor and producer Ruth Gebreyesus, who will cover Bay Area arts and culture, with an eye towards the East Bay, for KQED Arts. There’s...
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