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Video Artist Lisa Reihana Brings Truth Back to the History of the Pacific
Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique, a large 19th-century wallpaper at the de Young Museum, depicts a romanticized version of British Captain James Cook’s three expeditions to the Pacific, and primarily...
View ArticleFive Decades of Lynda Benglis’ Sculptures Grace Pace Palo Alto
Does the Bay Area know about Lynda Benglis? Long a New York legend, her knotty, blobby, materially adventurous sculptures appear minimally in just a few local museums. SFMOMA seems to have one, as does...
View ArticleThe Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 23–30
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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Richmond Censors Critiques of Trump in Public Art Project
For just five nights, the north wall of Richmond’s Memorial Auditorium belongs not to the city, but to the people of Richmond. Between the hours of 8 and 11pm, Aug. 21–25, Christy Chan’s public art...
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Fall Arts Guide 2019: Come Together at These 10 Visual Art Events
Fall always brings a flood of options in the arts, but this year, it’s particularly difficult to create a condensed list of visual art events worthy of your time. There is simply so much...
View ArticleThe Millennium Tower Becomes Sound Art
Indigenous art collective Postcommodity (Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist) turns its focus to the (sinking) Millennium Tower, creating a sound installation and conceptual artwork aimed at...
View ArticleTwo Decades of Art from the ‘Age of Black Power’
Sometimes you have to travel to see great art, and sometimes it comes to you. Earlier this year, the de Young wrangled an additional stop for the much-acclaimed Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of...
View ArticleContemporary Artists Examine their ‘Soft Power’ at SFMOMA
Museum schedules being what they are (complicated, long-negotiated allocations of institutional space and resources), it takes a minute to assemble large-scale exhibitions that feel truly responsive to...
View ArticleTeresa Baker’s Art is Hard To Keep Your Hands Off
Using nontraditional materials like artificial turf, yarn, felt and mesh, Teresa Baker incorporates small gestures into larger expanses of color and texture. Not quite paintings, drawings or...
View ArticleJordan Casteel’s Portraits Gaze Right Back
Those who saw Casteel’s work in MoAD’s Black Refractions at the start of this year know the Bay Area’s in for a treat. Now, a solo museum show (the young New York artist’s first, traveling from the...
View ArticleThe Results of an Artistic Friendship at Asian Art Museum
U.S.-born sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi met Japanese painter, theorist and teacher Saburo Hasegawa in 1950, beginning a short yet fruitful friendship (Hasegawa died in 1957) committed to...
View ArticleA Look Back at ‘Michael Jang’s California’
San Francisco photographer Michael Jang might be best known for his series The Jangs, unguarded, often humorous images of the artist’s own extended family in 1970s suburbia. Or maybe it’s for the...
View ArticleCustom Motorcycles are Self-Expression in Richmond
It’s not often that an art exhibition encourages its visitors to bring their motorcycles to an opening, but Countersteer curators Danny Aarons and Phil Linhares are interested in the personal style an...
View ArticleFort Mason Hosts an Artist-Made Roller Disco Rink
Can roller skating bring people together during polarizing times? That’s the hope behind actions vent ascending frequencies, the latest incarnation of a 2004 project by assume vivid astro focus (the...
View ArticleNew Sculptures from Vincent Fecteau at the Wattis
An untitled show of untitled works by San Francisco artist Vincent Fecteau (his first in the Bay Area in over 15 years) opens the Wattis’ season with a group of new sculptures—multifaceted,...
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Masako Miki’s Shapeshifters Tell a Story of Cultural Survival and Adaptation
Masako Miki loves shapeshifters—which makes sense, because she is one. Since she left Japan at age 18 to study art in the United States, her practice has grown and morphed to encompass printmaking,...
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Illustrating the Opposition to Trump’s ‘Public Charge’ Rule
On Tuesday, Aug. 27, a rally filled Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood to protest the Trump administration’s ‘public charge rule,’ set to go into effect Oct. 15. And Thi Bui and a group of illustrators...
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Oakland Museum of California to Undergo $20m Renovation to Exterior, Courtyard
In 2015, when an estimated one million Golden State Warriors fans overtook the area south of Lake Merritt to celebrate Oakland’s newly-crowned basketball champions, many of them passed by the tall,...
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Finding Empowerment in Female Professional Wrestlers
It wasn’t until Kelly Inouye saw Netflix’s GLOW, a fictionalized story about female professional wrestlers in 1980s Los Angeles, that she remembered watching Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the real-life...
View ArticleThe Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 30–Sept. 5
It’s time for Labor Day 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,...
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