SFMOMA, California Academy of Sciences Offer Free Admission for Fire Relief
As a respite for Bay Area residents affected by mandatory evacuations, power outages and diminished air quality due to the Kincade Fire, select San Francisco cultural institutions are offering free...
View ArticleThe Do List: Our Picks for Fire Relief, FKA Twigs, Día de los Muertos 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 ArticleA One-Stop Seasonal Gift Shop at the Renegade Craft Fair
Uh-oh, it’s that time of year again: the point after Halloween when you get all focused on planning your Thanksgiving travel, and forget entirely about that festive section of December when you’re...
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How the Money Adds Up for This San Francisco Sign-Making Couple
It’s telling that during my visit to Isaac Avila and Lauren D’Amato’s Bernal Heights live/work space, they don’t stop painting for the entire hour we talk. The couple began working together under the...
View ArticleThe Do List: Listen to This Week’s Picks, Including Copyslut, an Immi Pop-Up...
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 with KQED’s...
View Article‘Shaw & Co’ Maps a Bay Area Family’s Artistic Influence
Have you ever met a family so full of talent it doesn’t quite seem fair? My own grandfather was fond of saying, “Who ever told you life is fair?” It was a rhetorical question that put a stop to all...
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6 Podcasts to Get You Through Holiday Travel This Year
Wondering about the best podcasts for trips, long drives or (let’s face it) airport delays? With Thanksgiving fast approaching, chances are you’ll find yourself hitting the road or sky, and in need of...
View ArticleWatch the Exploratorium Light Up the Night at ‘After Dark: Glow’
Ever have that moment at the Exploratorium where you want all the kids to get out of the way so you can play with the exhibits in peace? We all have! That’s why the “public learning laboratory” hosts...
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Kari Orvik’s Tightly Focused ‘Geneva’ Captures Daily Life in the Excelsior
It’s a 20-minute bus ride south from the hubbub of 16th and Mission to San Francisco’s Excelsior neighborhood. Far from the city’s bustling downtown, the sky opens wide over low-slung buildings and...
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In a Future-Oriented SECA Show, East Bay Artists Shine
Walking through the galleries hosting the works of this year’s SECA Art awardees, you might find yourself thinking of the future. Displayed across three adjoining galleries on the San Francisco Museum...
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Interactive Art Installation Lets Strangers Talk To Each Other Across The Border
For several nights this month, searchlights have been illuminating the sky on the U.S.-Mexico border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They don’t have anything to do with stepped-up...
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Mark Your Calendars, SFMOMA is Free on Dec. 8
If you’ve missed previous free days at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, don’t be too hard on yourself. Chances are you’ve got work to do, children to pick up from school, dinners to prepare...
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Museum Stores Are Secretly the Best Places to Buy Gifts—Here’s Why
Does the thought of finding well-designed, locally relevant and thoughtful gifts for your loved ones fill you with dread? Never fear: the anxiety of lackluster gift-giving can be eradicated by real...
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Steep Prices, Absent SFMOMA Signaled an SF Art Exodus
Looking back on the nearly three years the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was closed for construction, what Catharine Clark remembers most is the psychic burden on gallery owners like herself. “I...
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Oakland’s ABO Comix Publishes, Advocates for LGBTQ Prisoners
The comic publisher ABO Comix faces unique obstacles: Its authors communicate by mail, but they’re prohibited from earning a meaningful income, so they struggle to afford postage, let alone art...
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The Black Community: A Target for the Tobacco Industry Since Slavery
Have you ever looked at the Center for Disease Control’s web page that highlights the tobacco industry’s impact on African Americans? It’s horrifying. According to the data, black folks say they want...
View ArticleThe Do List: Local Gifts, a Nia Wilson Film, Angel Olsen and Other Picks 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 with KQED’s...
View ArticleThe Culture is the Cure: Artists as First Responders
The Ashara Ekundayo Gallery in Oakland is a space where black womxn artists are celebrated. Every piece ever shown was made by someone who identifies as such. Unfortunately, after nearly seven years of...
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Murray Bowles, Legendary Bay Area Punk Photographer, Dies at 68
Murray Bowles, the photographer who chronicled the characters, chaos and energy of the Bay Area’s punk scene for over three decades, died at his home in Sacramento on Sunday. He was 68. Often seen in...
View ArticleAt Cushion Works, Art With Elders Show and Holiday Sale
This a one-day holiday art show and sale at the Mission District project space Cushion Works isn’t your ordinary holiday art show and sale. And that’s because the artists are seasoned, if not...
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