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With Books and Beans, a BAMPFA Retrospective Elevates Everyday Actions
To launch the July 23 public opening of by Alison Knowles, the retrospective at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives (BAMPFA) covering 62 years of the artist’s production, visitors were...
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In OMCA’s ‘Hella Feminist,’ 150 Years of Collective Action Points the Way...
Behind frosted glass are silhouettes of silk undergarments, protecting parts of a woman only seen after dark. At first it feels intrusive to be so close to these items, culled from the Oakland Museum...
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Pier 24’s ‘Looking Forward’ is a Delayed Anniversary Show Worth the Wait
It felt like years since I’d visited Pier 24 when I arrived on a recent weekday morning to view Looking Forward: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography. Wait, it had been years. Like many, many things, Pier...
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Reports of Our Visual Art Scene’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Summer may be blockbuster time for the movie world, but for visual art, it’s all about fall. Which is why it was way too hard to put together this list of 10 recommendations. Not included are two shows...
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In ‘Tell Me I’m An Artist,’ an Art Student’s Greatest Work is Herself
Tell Me I’m An Artist, the new novel from Chelsea Martin (Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life), is both a book title and a plea from its 20-something protagonist, Joey. Joelle “Joey” Berry is...
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Jennie Ottinger’s ‘Princess Series’ is a Perfectly Timed Musing on Diana—and...
The timing of Jennie Ottinger’s Princess Series is fairly astounding. This thoroughly absorbing exhibition of paintings documents pivotal moments in Princess Diana’s life—and it just happened to open...
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At West Oakland’s Eternal Now, an Artistic Oasis is Open for Business
Stepping into Eternal Now feels like entering another country. On Friday, Aug. 26, the combination bookstore and record shop, housed within an inconspicuous black building on West Oakland’s San Pablo...
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In a Perfect World, This Show at 500 Capp Would Be Up For Months—See It While...
I don’t often write about visual art with a sense of urgency, but you have exactly two more chances to take in the sublime and slyly interruptive work of Libby Black at 500 Capp Street. The result of a...
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Grace Rosario Perkins Lights Up Cushion Works with the Paintings of ‘Hermit’s...
In tarot, the hermit card represents contemplation and self-discovery; his lamp symbolizes the inner wisdom needed to forge one’s own path. It’s fitting, then, that this form of illumination is the...
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Celebrating Sunset Seaside Drag at Baker Beach
It doesn’t get much more gloriously San Francisco than this: as the sun slowly sets with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background, two drag performers elicit whoops and cheers to the tune of Kate...
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Sydney Welch’s Photography Features the Latest Wave of Bay Area Talent
Hey Rightnowish listeners, you can help shape the future of the podcast! Just fill out a short survey. East Bay photographer Sydney Welch has compiled a collection of photos that serve as a highlight...
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The Supreme Court Meets Andy Warhol, Prince and a Case That Could Threaten...
You know all those famous Andy Warhol silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor and lots of other glitterati? Now one of the most famous of these, the Prince series, is at the heart of a case...
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Photo Exhibit Celebrates the Original Kasper’s, a Unique Corner of Oakland...
There aren’t many old-school, immigrant-built, onion-slinging hot dog spots left in Oakland. But for anyone who grew up in the East Bay, Kasper’s (along with family rival business, Casper’s) has long...
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Preserving Oakland Arts and Culture at B-Love’s Guesthouse
Inside of a classic Queen Anne Victorian in West Oakland, photographer Traci Bartlow displays beautifully framed images of the people who shaped hip-hop culture here in the Bay Area, and across the...
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Climate Protesters Throw Soup Over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in London
Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction, but caused no damage to the glass-covered painting. The group...
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Writer Edward Gunawan Wants to Destigmatize Asian Mental Health
Writer and filmmaker Edward Gunawan has personally experienced the stigma that often prevents people from getting mental health support. Years ago, while living in Indonesia, Gunawan felt smothered...
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Kapwa Gardens’ ‘Ancestor Altars’ Brings Healing for All Souls Day
In early 2019, a tiny parking lot sat idly on 967 Mission St. By the fall, Kultivate Labs — an economic development nonprofit and arts organization working to bolster San Francisco’s SOMA Pilipinas...
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Éamon McGivern’s ‘Trans Portrait Project’ Reflects a Luminous Community
There is a luminosity in Éamon McGivern’s paintings that is impossible to capture in photographs. Still Lives, a Trans Portrait Project is a collection of seven of McGivern’s large-scale paintings that...
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At Bay Area Queer Zine Fest, Grown-Up Punks Lift Up a New Generation
ince 2017, the Bay Area Queer Zine Fest (BAQZF) has been a gathering space for self-proclaimed weirdos, punks and outcasts to exchange handmade art and find community. For many, zines are a...
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In Asian Art Museum’s Cyberpunk Exhibition, an Ancient Poet Navigates the Future
During China’s formative and tumultuous Warring States period — a time when various regions fought for territory and political power, from around 475 BCE to 221 BCE — the disillusioned and aging poet...
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