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Warhol Foundation Awards Bay Area Arts Organizations $482,000
On Thursday, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced seven grants totaling $482,000 for Bay Area arts organizations and curators. This is part of $3.93 million in awards distributed...
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Stained Glass Evokes Life and Loss in Interface Gallery’s ‘Tissue’
In 2017, fire swept through Jeremy Ehling’s home, studio and experimental exhibition space in east Santa Rosa, destroying everything. Like so many North Bay residents displaced by the fires, Ehling and...
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Man Ray’s Surreal Films Find a Fitting Soundtrack Thanks to Jim Jarmusch
At an offsite event to mark the opening of the new Gagosian exhibit Man Ray: The Mysteries of Château du Dé, the band SQÜRL played a live score to four of the surrealist’s 1920s films. It was an...
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The Faces and Conversations of MoAD’s Winter Opening Reception
The event last Tuesday at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco was billed as the Winter 2020 Opening Reception. But it felt more like a family reunion, with art as a fantastic...
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San Francisco’s Search for a Maya Angelou Monument is Back at Square One
Shortly after the inauguration of Donald Trump, Margaux Kelly was looking for an antidote to the anger she felt about the president’s attitudes towards women. Public Art News “My colleague and I came...
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If You Build an Events Listing Site in 2020, Will People Come?
Say you have some free time (ha!) and you fancy yourself a consumer of local arts and culture. How do you decide what to do? Text your friends about their plans? Type “what to do this weekend” into a...
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Aggregate Space Gallery, Displaced Last Year, to Reopen Blocks Away in West...
Aggregate Space Gallery, the artist-run gallery displaced from its Oakland warehouse location of seven years last July, will reopen blocks away in a two-story unit previously occupied by a circus...
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SFMOMA’s ‘Thought Pieces’ Turns Back Time to 1970s San Francisco
There’s something deeply satisfying about exhibitions that focus on a specific time and place. To me, visiting these shows is a bit like time travel. When curators narrow their purview to emphasize...
View ArticleRashaad Newsome Promises Radical Futurity at Fort Mason
The preview for Rashaad Newsome’s exhibition To Be Real actually came to town months ago, in the small screening room of an institution miles away from Fort Mason. The videos STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!...
View ArticleRon Nagle’s Exquisite Sculptures Drift into BAMPFA
The question here isn’t how many of Ron Nagle’s exquisitely crafted, small-scale sculptures can fit within BAMPFA’s galleries (so many!) for Handsome Drifter, but how many Nagle sculptures one human...
View ArticleAll of Stephen Kaltenbach’s Identities Under One Roof
Stephen Kaltenbach is a trickster. The artist behind multiple identities, with many modes of making, he’s the author of a long con that is his own art historical legacy, all of which is on view in The...
View ArticleJean Shin Invites Viewers to ‘Pause’ With E-Waste Sculptures
We can’t escape technology (especially here in the Bay Area), and artists have long been grappling with its applications and effects. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ exhibition The Body Electric...
View ArticleTilda Swinton Curates Photographs Inspired by ‘Orlando’
Not all celebrities should dabble in curation, but if anyone can helm an exhibition inspired by Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, it would be Tilda Swinton, who starred in Sally Potter’s adaptation...
View Article‘Embroidering Exoticism’ at San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Using two Punjabi phulkaris embroidered by a relative around 1925 as a starting point, Bay Area artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren traces themes of colonialism, contemporary exoticism and craft in I Was...
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Free Entry to SFMOMA, MoAD and Other Museums on Third Thursday
Penny-pinchers unite! On Thursday, Feb. 20, the museums of the Yerba Buena neighborhood are opening their doors free of charge. The list of participating institutions in this year’s first Culture for...
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Shapeshifters Cinema and Brewery Promises Art Film Refuge in an Oakland...
In the Bay Area, alternative exhibition spaces for experimental film and video have long provided artists of the moving image a sense of community and interdisciplinary collaboration. In the early...
View ArticleThe Photography of a Skateboard Hall-of-Famer
There was something about the death last year of Thrasher magazine editor-in-chief Jake Phelps that hit close to home for skaters of a certain age. Jake seemed indestructible, a skater with nine lives....
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In Rhoda Kellogg’s World, Every Child is an Artist
Rhoda Kellogg pictured in the San Francisco Examiner. (Courtesy of the Rhoda Kellogg International Child Art Collection of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association/Phoebe Hearst Preschool) Rhoda...
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David King Revisits Formative Childhood Imagery in Posthumous Book, Exhibition
Happy, a new photography book by David King, the English-born San Francisco artist who died at 71 last October, comprises full-page images made from small objects and a yellow surface. King took...
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Recoding CripTech Proudly Asserts Disability as an Identity and Culture
Recoding CripTech, a stand-out group exhibition on view at SOMArts through Feb. 25, reimagines what a body can be and do. Working with 11 artists and art collaboratives, curators Vanessa Chang and...
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