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SFMOMA’s Cuts to Film, Other Programs Prompt Widespread Outrage
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s July 21 Board of Trustees Public “Sunshine” Meeting might have seemed typical at first. Over Zoom, board chair Robert J. Fisher, director Neal Benezra and...
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Judge Won’t Allow Mural at San Francisco School to Be Covered
The San Francisco school board violated state law when it voted to cover up a 1930s mural that critics said is racist and degrading in its depiction of Black and Native American people, a judge ruled...
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There’s Nothing Like Seeing Moving Images in the Dark
Some of the most thrilling art experiences I’ve had in the Bay Area have been under the flickering light of a film projector. One was a fog-filled room and Lis Rhodes’ hypnotic, screeching Light Music,...
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Frisco Born Filmmaker Harvey Lozada Turns the Camera on SOMA
As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the health of individuals and communities around the world, Harvey Lozada focused on the stories coming from the San Francisco neighborhood south of Market Street, the...
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Hung Liu Devoted Her Career to Remembering Others, Now the Art World...
The first thing visitors come across when they enter San Francisco’s de Young Museum is Oakland artist Hung Liu’s U.S. Permanent Resident card. Not the actual artifact—but rather a colossal, painterly...
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Bay Area Visual Art Exhibitions Not to Miss this Fall
If we’ve learned anything over the past 18 months, it’s that there’s no replacing the physical and emotional experience of seeing art in person. And while Bay Area galleries have generally remained...
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Didier William’s ‘Siklon’ Sizzles With Stormy Energy
Here’s a fun game: Browse the digital images of a show, specifically a show of art with an intriguing materials list. The list says, “This art has layers, textures and different finishes.” The images...
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Paintings That Feel Like an Eerily Helpful Tarot Reading
Pamela Jorden’s show Forest is full of diptychs, but not the kind of diptychs we’re used to. We’d typically picture two rectangular canvases of equal size hung snugly beside each other, like San...
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One Year After MF DOOM’s Death, Bay Area Artists Honor the Legend
On Oct. 31, the one-year anniversary of MF DOOM’s untimely passing, over two dozen Bay Area artists are taking part in “DOOMSDAY,” an art and music festival in the hip-hop artist’s memory. Dozens of...
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A Film About Oakland’s Most Important Mural That You Can’t See
A mural stands in downtown Oakland that honors the city’s culture and history. It’s a giant artwork birthed out of years and years of community conversations and the artists’ commitment to the concept....
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A New Book About Jay DeFeo Gets at the Essence of Bay Area Art
The story of Jay DeFeo is often simply the story of her most famous work, The Rose. Made over a span of eight years, the monumental three-dimensional painting spent twice that time concealed behind a...
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Wayne Thiebaud, Painter of Lush Colors and Textures, Dies at Age 101
Artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colorful paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, has died. He was 101. His death was confirmed...
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University of San Francisco to Acquire SFAI
The San Francisco Art Institute and the University of San Francisco announced today a plan to “integrate operations and academic programs.” USF, a private Jesuit university with a student body of just...
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These Oakland Artists Transformed their Greatest Pain into Purpose
As an artist and educator, Karega Bailey maintained a message of peace, hope and liberation. But after he lost his brother to gun violence in 2014, his grief tested him; he felt sick with revenge and...
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SFMOMA’s Getting a New Director: Christopher Bedford
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced today the appointment of Christopher Bedford as the museum’s new director. Bedford joins SFMOMA from the Baltimore Museum of Art, where he has been...
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I Didn’t Hate the ‘Imagine Picasso’ Immersive Exhibition
It turns out not all immersive exhibitions are created equal. I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I didn’t hate Imagine Picasso, San Francisco’s newest projected light display of paintings by a dead...
View ArticleWe’ve Got the Names of SFMOMA’s 2022 SECA Art Award Finalists
The 16 finalists for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 SECA Art Award became public on Wednesday to a flurry of cheers from Bay Area art fans. The award will result in a museum exhibition...
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At the de Young, Alice Neel’s Paintings Assert the Dignity of All People
The amazing thing about art—especially art loosed from the constraints of particular movements and eras—is that it can be fresh and revelatory regardless of when it’s encountered. It’s a weird thing, a...
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Pink Donut Boxes are Canvas for Artist Portraying Kids of Cambodian American...
Los Angeles is a city dotted with donut shops, many of them mom-and-pop operations run by immigrants from Cambodia and tucked away in strip malls across Southern California. Right now, artist Phung...
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‘The Healing Project’ Asks: How Do We Survive in America? And How Do We Heal?
Samora Pinderhughes spent the past eight years exploring two questions. “One is, how do we survive in America? And the other is how do we heal on a daily basis?” says the Bay Area-raised composer,...
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