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Five Artists and Curators Receive Inaugural California Black Voices Project...
The Minnesota Street Project Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Dogpatch arts complex, announced today the first recipients of its California Black Voices Project grant. Indira Allegra, Lizzetta...
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Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘Nothing is Eternal’ is Perfectly Chaotic
When I try to think past Nov. 3, my brain splits into possible futures like the chapters of a Choose Your Own Adventure paperback. Will the election go this way (turn to page 45) or this way (turn to...
View ArticleThere’s a New Director of Cultural Affairs in San Francisco
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Friday the appointment of Ralph Remington as the new Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC). Remington, who will start in...
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OMCA to Reopen to Public on Nov. 27 with Redesigned Gardens
The Oakland Museum of California has announced that it will reopen to the public on Friday, Nov. 27, with three days of free entry to the general public. Members can visit the museum beginning Nov. 20....
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At YBCA, Art is a Powerful Tool for Envisioning a Less Complacent Future
These are unprecedented times. At least it seems like everyone is saying so, but is it true? There’s the global pandemic, attacks on democracy by political leaders, racist violence by police,...
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SFAI’s Unruly Past Goes Online in BAMPFA’s Latest ‘MATRIX’ Show
Throughout its 42 years of existence as a showcase for contemporary and experimental art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s MATRIX series has regularly shapeshifted beyond white-wall...
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What a Vandalized Oakland Mural Says About Black Futures in America
A mural in West Oakland depicting three members of an African American family, dressed in white garb above the words “The Future is Ours,” was defaced this past weekend. It’s the third time the...
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Joan Baez’s Portraits Celebrate Anthony Fauci, Kamala Harris and Other...
Joan Baez’s new art show at Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley features portraits of her favorite change-makers. (Marina Chavez) Joan Baez’s work as an activist hasn’t stopped at music-making. Over the...
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In Final Show (For Now), Gallery 16 Works Take on New, Bittersweet Meanings
The first show I visited in 2021 was also a last: Gallery 16’s final exhibition in the ground-floor SoMa space it’s leased since 2005. This moment has been coming—the building’s new owner wanted to...
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Diego Rivera Mural at SFAI to Receive Landmark Designation, Preventing...
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to initiate landmark designation for the 1931 Diego Rivera mural The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City located...
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The People’s WPA Isn’t Waiting Around for a Future ‘New Deal’
As Inauguration Day inches closer, so does the reported promise of a “new deal” presidency to combat the devastation of COVID-19 and the proposed cuts in arts funding from the outgoing administration....
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Art Exhibit ‘Deconstruction’ Dedicated to a Mother’s Experience With Breast...
Alex Mallonee and his mother, the late Joyce Mallonee, sit in chairs posing for a photo in their backyard in Lafayette. (Alex Mallonee) On Oct. 4, 2020, filmmaker Alex Mallonee’s mother Joyce passed...
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Mural Inspired by PBS’‘American Portrait’ Pops Up in San Francisco
Months after one of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, and just weeks after an attempted coup at our nation’s capitol, the idea of national identity is as omnipresent in the minds of the...
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San Francisco Art Institute’s Board Chair Steps Down Amid Financial Woes,...
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) on Friday announced the resignation of Pam Rorke Levy, the board chair of the embattled art school who recently suggested selling a historic Diego Rivera mural to...
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The San Francisco Art Institute That Could Have Been
Almost everyone agrees on one thing: For the San Francisco Art Institute to have a future, it will need to change. But like most slow-moving objects that have been laden with debt, it’s having trouble...
View ArticleSFMOMA Director Neal Benezra Steps Down
This story has been updated. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced today that Director Neal Benezra will step down from his role after 19 years in the position. The museum gave no definitive...
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Nina Katchadourian Takes an Adventure Story into Deeper Emotional Waters
How close can we get to understanding someone else’s experience? This is likely not the question Nina Katchadourian asked herself when she began working on her show To Feel Something That Was Not of...
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Contemporary Jewish Museum Announces Inaugural Artists in Residence
When Bay Area museums get the go-ahead to reopen (hopefully, this time for good), it won’t be business as usual. Too much has changed—and still needs to change—both within these institutions and in the...
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Kenneth Noland’s Lively ‘Flares’ Channel California Vibes into Abstract Shapes
Before I visited Pace Palo Alto to see Flares, the name “Kenneth Noland” mainly summoned in my mind images of target paintings: square canvases of brightly colored concentric circles that hang in art...
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SFMOMA Artwork Leaps to Life in Myles Thatcher’s New Ballet ‘Colorforms’
As we wait less and less patiently for the reopening of our favorite cultural spaces, digital programming attempts to fill the void—with 3D renderings of exhibitions, streaming events and pre-recorded...
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