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Saying Goodbye to Artist and Prankster Clayton Bailey
A man equal parts imagination and mustache (his facial hair was rumored to be over 24 inches long in its full glory), the irreverent East Bay artist Clayton Bailey died on June 6. His art was steeped...
View ArticleMural Painting in SF’s Chinatown in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, San Francisco’s Chinese Culture Center has organized a day of painting in Portsmouth Square. On Saturday, June 20, 11am–2pm, artists and volunteers,...
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What Will Become of Oakland’s Black Lives Matter Murals?
Sometimes the energy of a movement looks like the mass mobilization of people marching towards a common goal, and sometimes it’s hundreds of square feet of painted plywood. In May, as protests in...
View ArticleJulie Rodrigues Widholm Appointed New Director of BAMPFA
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) announced on Thursday the appointment of a new director: Julie Rodrigues Widholm, the current director and chief curator of the DePaul Art...
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High-Ranking SFMOMA Employee to Leave During Ongoing Reckoning
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced Monday that Nan Keeton, the museum’s deputy director of external relations since 2013, will step down from her position as of July 2. Keeton’s departure...
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27 Years Later, Nine Artists Consider Kiki Gallery—Within its Same Walls
When Sophie Appel and Cole Solinger opened San Francisco’s Delaplane gallery at 483 14th Street, they were unaware the narrow storefront was already a landmark of local art history. Theirs was a new...
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SFMOMA Senior Curator Gary Garrels Resigns After ‘Reverse Discrimination’...
Updated July 15, 11am Gary Garrels, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s senior curator of painting and sculpture, announced his resignation on Saturday following an uproar over comments made at an...
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A Painted Casket Tells the Story of Police Brutality in America
DeAndre Drake, an artist from Oakland who works under the name Airballin, recently airbrushed a casket with images of victims of police brutality. And for lack of a better word, it’s beautiful. The...
View ArticleYerba Buena Center for the Arts Lays Off One Third of Its Staff
San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is the latest in a wave of major local arts organizations forced to make sweeping cuts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Executive...
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Students Suffer Whiplash as SFAI Decides to Offer Classes After All
The San Francisco Art Institute has never been a dull place, and this is especially true as it struggles with financial solvency. In a reversal of a previously announced suspension of regular courses...
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The Peninsula Museum of Art Searches for a New Home—Again
It’s been a tumultuous few months for museums forced to close due to COVID-19, and the Peninsula Museum of Art (PMA) has not been spared its share of sudden changes. The humble fine arts museum is not...
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‘Paint Us in a Beautiful Light’: Photographing Black Joy
The Instagram page curated Amir Abdul-Shakur, aka Amir The Photographer, looks like a community yearbook. His shots are mostly portraits of Black folks in Oakland, and show each individual in their own...
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Supporters Rally Around New Deal Mural Threatened by UCSF Construction
Updated Aug. 4, 3:45pm On a recent Saturday, Temi Washington, the great-great-granddaughter of Bridget “Biddy” Mason, spoke about the importance of seeing Black lives represented in American history....
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‘Arthur’ Reminds Us the Internet Can’t Replace Art Shows
Objectively, I know that looking at art on a screen is no replacement for the physical experience. But over the past five months, I convinced myself I was getting at least an approximation of the...
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Some Good News: Ruth Asawa Stamps are Here
Ruth Asawa has been commemorated in a run of official postage stamps, available today, Aug. 13. The stamps honor the work of the late, beloved San Francisco-based Asawa, a Japanese American artist...
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Tenderloin Murals Meet their Audience at Street Level
Chad Hasegawa’s new mural, finished Aug. 1, is painted above Blessings Ministry, a medical marijuana dispensary with a star of David over the door. It’s right down the block from the historic Hibernia...
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Emory Douglas to Discuss his Work as the Black Panthers’ Minister of Culture
In the Black Panthers’ influential and widely-circulated newspaper, Emory Douglas’ drawings held near-equal space to the lines of written text, shaping the visual aesthetic of the Black Power movement....
View ArticleSF Announces $12.8 Million in Grants for Arts and Culture Organizations
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced $12.8 million in grants to 227 arts and culture organizations throughout the city on Wednesday. The funding comes from the city’s Grants for the Arts (GFTA)...
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A Night on the Town With the Velvet Bandit
The Velvet Bandit looks to the left, sizing up the street, and eyes a line of cars stopped at a red light in downtown Santa Rosa. “Let’s wait for the light to change,” she says. “There looks like a lot...
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After Wildfire, a Family of Artists Faces the Cultural Losses of Climate Change
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]elicia Rice’s husband, Jim Schoonover, often joked that the house they rented in the Santa Cruz mountains was really a one-bedroom apartment above her business, Moving Parts Press....
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