Filipino-American History Month Celebrated at UNDSCVRD SF
Long before SOMA was home to tech companies like Airbnb and Zynga, the neighborhood was a thriving Filipino community, where artists flourished, public-service institutions served and war vets lived....
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Jonathan Calm Revisits ‘Green Book’ Locations in Search of America’s Past and...
When African-American travelers wanted to drive across the U.S. in the Jim Crow era, they consulted a guidebook specially made and marketed to the growing Black middle class. The Negro Motorist Green...
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At the CJM, 20 Years of Annabeth Rosen’s Earthen Humor
Annabeth Rosen’s extraordinary exhibit of clay sculptures at the Contemporary Jewish Museum—single pieces resembling serving vessels, table settings and standing figures—is a virtuosic display of...
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Shake Like It’s 1989: ‘Klub Rupturre!!’ Turns Loma Prieta Quake Into TV Dance...
On the monitor atop a pedestal at Black & White Projects, a woman in a white shoulder-padded blazer hosts an American Bandstand-style dance show called Klub Rupturre!! “Deep beneath the earth here...
View ArticleThe Do List: Life is Living, Janelle Monáe, Stereolab and More
Looking for things to do in the Bay Area this weekend? The Do List has you covered with concerts, festivals, exhibitions, plays, performances and more. You can listen to this week’s episode above with...
View ArticleRightnowish: ‘Te Amo Mama,’ a Video Game About Motherhood
In all my years, I’ve never played a video game in which the main character was a mother. Not until the other day, that is, when I walked into Oakland’s Youth Impact Hub. The center, located on 28th...
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Burning Man Exhibit at Oakland Museum Asks Few Questions of Festival’s Purpose
Burning Man is a polarizing topic here in the Bay Area, where the arts and music festival was founded in 1986 at Baker Beach in San Francisco. For some, it’s not just a yearly gathering, but an entire...
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Plans for Maya Angelou Monument in San Francisco Face Long Delay
Plans to erect a major new monument in San Francisco honoring poet Maya Angelou now face a long delay, following a decision by city officials to scrap the city arts commission’s recommended proposal....
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BAMPFA Announces Major African American Quilts Acquisition, Related Exhibitions
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) announced Wednesday its acquisition of nearly 3,000 works by African American quilt makers, including more than 500 pieces by the acclaimed...
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After Grassroots Organizing, San Jose Recognizes Chicano Murals as Historic...
This article originally appeared in Peninsula Press. Community members who want to preserve Chicano art in San Jose are celebrating a unanimous decision by the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission to...
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New Book of Hal Fischer’s Photos Capture ‘The Gay Seventies’ of SF
Arriving in San Francisco in 1975 to pursue a master’s in photography at SF State, Hal Fischer experienced more than just a change of scenery. “After a few months in San Francisco, and a memorable...
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Black Power, With a Bay Area Twist, at the de Young Museum
The exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983 premiered at the Tate Modern in London in 2017, has traveled to the Broad Musuem in Los Angeles, and, starting Nov. 9, will call...
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Artistic Encounters With Animals Say Something About Being Human
As I began writing this article, I checked my email in a moment of procrastination and saw an alert from the social media site Nextdoor titled “Yet Another Coyote Encounter” reporting a coyote sighting...
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David King, San Francisco Artist Who Designed Iconic Crass Emblem, Dies at 71
David King, the San Francisco artist best known for designing the English punk band Crass’ iconic and widely reproduced anti-establishment emblem, died at home Thursday following a years-long fight...
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‘We Are Here’: Cece Carpio Paints Indigenous Stories Around the World
Cece Carpio credits her great grandmother, who raised her for the first 12 years of her life, with giving her the desire to draw and create art. Then, it was a means of communication—Carpio’s great...
View ArticleRichmond Art Center Director Richard Ambrose Resigns
Richard “Ric” Ambrose has resigned as executive director of Richmond Art Center, the organization announced Wednesday in an email signed by board president Patricia Guthrie. “Ambrose has played a...
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‘Pansy Twist’ Celebrates the Possibilities of Community for Queer Rockers and...
Oakland used to be the sort of city where two young, queer boys from Arizona and Alabama—incidentally also pen pals—could pack up and move. Once there, they’d make music, art and friends. Artists Seth...
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‘SOFT POWER’ Pulls No Punches in SFMOMA’s Global Contemporary Survey
Listening to 17 of the 20 artists in SOFT POWER talk briefly about their contributions to the expansive group show, I realized how rare it was to hear quite so many living artists talk about their work...
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From D-Boys to Dope Art
Oakland native Timothy B. has been putting paint where it ain’t for some time now—and the center of his work is family. He was born in 1992, the same year his father, Timothy Bluitt Sr., was sent to...
View ArticleThe Do List: ‘Nosferatu,’ Dogs in Costume, Guitar Virtuosos and More for...
Looking for things to do in the Bay Area this weekend? The Do List has you covered with concerts, festivals, exhibitions, plays, performances and more. You can listen to this week’s episode above with...
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