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Celebrating Black Love and Reclaiming a Place in History
Event Information ‘Through a Lens Darkly’ Screening with filmmaker discussion. Feb. 12, 2015 CounterPulse Event details – ‘A Love Supreme’ Night Screening with live jazz. Feb. 13, 2015 Impact Hub,...
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Different Worlds, Same Problems in Jeffrey Blankfort Exhibit
Event Information Fight the Power New exhibit by photojournalist Jeffrey Blankfort. Feb. 6-28, 2015 Sargent Johnson Gallery Details and tickets In August of 2014, 80-year-old Bay Area activist and...
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Speaking Their Truth: Photography from Women in Iran and the Arab World
Event Information She Who Tells a Story Photographs from Iran and the Arab World. Through May 4, 2015 Cantor Arts Center Details and tickets Western news outlets have closely followed the story of...
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Good Mother Gallery Launches in Oakland
In January, three young men paid tribute to their very good mother by opening a new Oakland art gallery named for her, and she proudly watched as gobs of people flocked to her sons’ art space on...
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Finding Beauty Along the Edges: Remembering Rex Ray (1956–2015)
News of San Francisco artist and designer Rex Ray’s death rippled out over the ether Monday afternoon, with many friends and admirers expressing sorrow on social media. Author Rebecca Solnit posted on...
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Falling Under the Spell at CAPITAL
About a year ago, longtime friends and art-world denizens Bob Linder and Jonathan Runcio began DJing nights at the Mission’s Rock Bar. The DJ sets spawned Xerox-themed bar nights, and the flurries of...
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Displaced Art from Evicted Residents of Albany Bulb at ‘Refuge in Refuse’
In April 2014, more than two dozen people were evicted from their informal settlement at the Albany Bulb along the East Bay shoreline. After a complex battle encompassing land-use issues, homeless...
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A Punishing Perspective: M. Lamar’s ‘Negrogothic’
Harsh light reflects off the pale skin of a naked man kneeling on the floor, his hands and head caught between the wood slats of a pillory. His body is held in torture in a suspended state of grueling...
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Radio Show: The Valentine’s Episode
Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week. http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2015/02/20150213tdl.mp3 The Nile Project The Nile...
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‘Songbook': Alec Soth’s Americana Epic
Alec Soth, Near Gainesville, Georgia, 2014. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. © Alec Soth Two shirtless gladiators approach, posturing in unison as they prepare to square off against some...
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Anthony Discenza’s ‘Trouble Sleeping': An Exhibition in Stages
“A man with a knife lunges toward a man and they fight,” scrolls across an LED sign in bold white letters, “the second man hits the first with a baseball bat and tries to inject him with a sedative,...
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The Accidental Journey of Artist Brandon Anderton
Brandon Anderton’s story of becoming an artist is an unfamiliar one. He hasn’t been drawing since he was a young boy, and he never dreamed of being an artist when he grew up. In fact, until 2009, when...
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Radio Show: Pop, Fire, Walking Dead
Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week. http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2015/02/20150220tdl.mp3 Noise Pop 2015 An annual sonic...
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This One Weird Surrealist Trick Will Fill Your Sketchbook
If you have a blank sketchbook lying around, “one weird trick” from the Surrealists can turn any social gathering into a collaborative art session. Instead of sequestering yourself at home with your...
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Small Space, Big Charm at Petite Galleria
Japantown San Jose is one of the last three such historical Japantowns in the United States. With a legacy 125 years old, the area has seen a new group of young entrepreneurs opening clothing...
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SFAQ Pop-Up Gallery Opens with Focus on SF’s New Economic Landscape
SFAQ is an arts quarterly published in San Francisco with an ever-expanding scope that includes a new pop-up gallery in the Tenderloin, SFAQ [Project] Space. Founder Andrew McClintock, who also...
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Unpacking Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Curatorial Project ‘The Way Things Go’ at YBCA
This month, international artist Rirkrit Tiravanija — a darling of the biennial art circuit from São Paulo to Venice to Gwangju — descended on the Bay Area for The Ways Things Go at Yerba Buena Center...
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Step ‘Within the Light’ at OMCA
It’s fitting that Marion Gray: Within the Light opened on Valentine’s Day. Gray’s photographs are love letters to a community of performers and artists whose works have come and gone, as ephemeral as...
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Celebrating the Life of Artist and Curator Susan O’Malley (1976–2015)
Many people far and wide are reeling from news of the sudden passing of beloved Bay Area artist and curator Susan O’Malley, who collapsed last Wednesday and never regained consciousness while in her...
View ArticleSex, Seduction and Samurai: Explore the Art of the Floating World
The Shogun’s capital of Edo (modern Tokyo) was home to a million souls and a sophisticated urban culture by the early 1700s. Elite courtesans, kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers were the day’s pop...
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