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In Anniversary Show, Alumni Address SFAI’s Complex 150-Year Legacy
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) turns 150 years old this month, and as one might expect of an institution that’s managed to survive multiple earthquakes, socio-political upheavals, and economic...
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BAMPFA Showcases Films and Art of ‘Too-Little-Known’ Sara Kathryn Arledge
Instead of continually bemoaning that the pandemic is denying me access to physical spaces and the stuff they hold (books, art, films, etc.), I’m trying to think of this period of intangibility as one...
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Bay Area Artists on Challenges, Unexpected Victories in the Pandemic
A year ago, on the verge of shelter in place, country singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash offered an encouraging reminder to the world’s artists, writers, musicians and other creatives: that “when...
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‘We Trade’ Sends Artwork from Southeast SF in Exchange for Your Own
When Kate Connell and Oscar Melara, also known as the artist collaborative Book and Wheel, unveiled Chispa, they had big plans for the future of their colorfully painted, roving art cart. (“We like to...
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What’s Reopened in the Bay Area? Your Updated Guide to Movies, Art, Music and...
With vaccinations rolling along and Bay Area counties moving out of restrictive tiers, we’re seeing more and more reopenings of movie theaters, museums, attractions and even live music. Below is a...
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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive to Reopen May 2
After thirteen months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will reopen its galleries to the public on May 2. The museum will operate under a new...
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SFMOMA Announces Upcoming Free Days in 2021
Gosh, when’s the last time I got to write this? The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will be free and open to the public on three upcoming dates this spring and summer, the earliest of which is next...
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Layers of Meaning with Visual Artist Paola de la Calle
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated how many children were detained at the U.S.- Mexico border. There were over 600 children still separated from their families when Paola started the...
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Oakland’s Famously Analog White Elephant Sale Goes Online
There is no event quite like Oakland’s annual White Elephant Sale. Picture a 96,000-square-foot warehouse on the edge of the Oakland Estuary, slowly filling with objects donated over the course of a...
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Motherhood, Marijuana and Mental Health with Been Milky
Kate Dash, aka Been Milky, is one of the coolest mothers you’ll ever meet. She likes to bomb down huge San Francisco hills on a skateboard, she notoriously dyes her hair bright colors, she’s a...
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At Chinese Culture Center, a Collective Experience Borne Out of Difference
In otherworldly utopias and sensitive documentary films, the works in WOMEN我們: From Her to Here at San Francisco’s Chinese Culture Center San Francisco explore queer and feminist lifeworlds from Asian...
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SF Sends $1,000 in Monthly Relief to Artists, Critics Say Process ‘Inequitable’
UPDATE: May 21, 12.30pm: The San Francisco Mayor’s Office announced the Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists just received a $3.46 million contribution from #StartSmall, Twitter founder and CEO Jack...
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Local Artists Capture Shared Experiences of Pandemic in SFMOMA’s ‘Close to Home’
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art show Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis was meant to open in December 2020. The exhibition would have been one of the first in-person examinations of how local...
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Rosie Lee Tompkins’ Mesmerizing Quilts on Grand Display at BAMPFA
The most difficult thing about visiting the Rosie Lee Tompkins retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is maintaining self-restraint. After a year of pixels, disinfected...
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Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Manager Roberto Bedoya Wins 2021 Berresford Prize
Roberto Bedoya, the city of Oakland’s cultural affairs manager, is one of two recipients of the 2021 Berresford Prize, an annual award administered by the national arts funding organization United...
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In Ebony G. Patterson’s ‘Garden,’ Hidden Dangers and Delights
For some of us, the past year and a half has been an extended period of decay—good habits lost, new vices found, a cruel winnowing of both social skills and sanity. We gaze with genuine astonishment at...
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Oakland Photographer Chanell Stone on Reaffirming Black Spaces in Nature
When most people think about traditional nature photography, black and white images of towering mountains and rushing rivers in the American West are often what comes to mind. It’s a genre that was...
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Diana Guerrero-Maciá’s Textile Work Lights Up Traywick Contemporary
In the light-filled entryway of Traywick Contemporary’s Berkeley building, the textile works in Chicago artist Diana Guerrero-Maciá’s Light Falls Fast have their own inner glow. Warm hues of sunset...
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At Legion of Honor, Life in Pompeii—And Bread—Preserved For Millennia
Thank goodness the food items in Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave were already well-preserved. The exhibition had originally been scheduled to open at the Legion of Honor in April...
View ArticleSFMOMA Cuts Several Programs and Staff Positions, Citing Declining Attendance
At an all-staff meeting today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art leadership announced plans to cut several programs, an SFMOMA source confirms. One program slated for closure is the museum’s Artists...
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