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In ‘Rituals of Devotion,’ the Mundane Becomes Sacred Through Collective...
When curator Amanda Nudelman began looking through the McEvoy Family Collection to organize her first show at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, she noticed a pattern. During the pandemic, she had been...
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Sonya Rapoport Wrote Artistic Code and the Computers Spit Out Something...
I’ve been diligently avoiding engaging with AI-generated art. Most of what I’ve seen (melty humans with too-many-fingered hands in weird places) feels more like an exercise in dark humor than it does a...
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To Firuzeh Mahmoudi, Art Is an Act of Resilience and Defiance
Editor’s note: This story is part of KQED’s Youth Takeover. Throughout the week of April 24–28, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area. s an Iranian American...
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The San Francisco Art Institute Has Filed for Bankruptcy
In a move long seen as inevitable, the San Francisco Art Institute filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection last Wednesday, on April 19, 2023. The case is currently pending in the United States...
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Nyame Brown’s Black World-Building Depicts a Necessary Future
If Black Panther is your favorite hero of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the movies left you wanting so much more, there’s a San Francisco exhibition that will interest you. On view through June 9...
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‘Fight and Flight’ Captures Artistic Responses to the Pressures of Bay Area Life
When I moved to the Bay Area two years ago, the first people I ever interviewed were a group of Oakland artists living and working together in an old fruit cannery. Music would often float out into the...
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At the Mission Art and Comic Expo, ‘Hella Chicano Artists’ Rep a Local Scene
Growing up in Sonoma County during the 1990s, Oakland artist Alex Sodari often saved up to buy Dark Horse comics at the grocery store and make the trek down to San Francisco for comic conventions. “I...
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The Colorful History of 1990s Graffiti Zines Comes Alive in New SF Exhibition
If you were a skater, punk or hip-hop fan in the ’90s, graffiti zines were just another part of the culture. The hand-stapled, photocopied scene reports were a product of graf writers and street art...
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Brett Cook Reflects on 30 Years of Socially Conscious Art
One of the highlights of Reflection & Action, Brett Cook’s career-spanning exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (with choreographer Liz Leman) seeks to make poignant, emotionally-resonant art...
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Decolonized Poetry Takes Center Stage in an Exhibit at Good Mother Gallery
Since arriving on the Bay Area’s literary scene in 2017, Mimi Tempestt has lived up to her name — at open mics and poetry readings, she’s a tempestuous force of nature. The Mills College graduate and...
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At SOMArts, ‘Jade Wave Rising’ Is a Love Letter to AAPI Women
When I was growing up, my grandmother’s wrist was always adorned with a thick jade bracelet, its smooth, cool-green surface prominent against her skin. At some point, my mother followed suit, and the...
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At the de Young, an Ansel Adams Exhibition Looks Beyond the Iconic
For many people, the images they hold in their minds of Yosemite or other Western U.S. landscapes probably overlap quite a bit with photographs by San Francisco–born photographer Ansel Adams...
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Your Guide to the Bay Area’s Best Art Exhibitions This Summer
This summer, all cross the Bay Area, our exhibition spaces are presenting work both hyper-local and international in scope. There are vibrant retrospectives, natural soundscapes and off-the-beaten-path...
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Sewing New Life Into Levi’s Jeans
If I were asked to name some of San Francisco’s technological contributions, I’d probably cringe at the immediate examples: self-driving cars that cause pile-up crashes on the Bay Bridge and an...
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At SFAC, a Soulful Exploration of James Baldwin’s Legacy in the Bay
A new art exhibition curated by San Francisco artist Mark Harris pays homage to the prolific writer and activist James Baldwin, 60 years after Baldwin’s visit to San Francisco in the spring of 1963....
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‘Queer Threads’ Weaves Together LGBTQ Trauma, Hope and Resilience
Independent curator John Chaich’s fascination with textile arts traces back to the 1990s, when he witnessed the AIDS memorial quilt at the Washington Monument. Chaich remembers thinking it was a...
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The 2023 ‘de Young Open’ is Open for Submissions! Here’s How to Apply
In June 2020, artists of the nine Bay Area counties were invited to submit images of their work to a novel, somewhat radical experiment on the part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Over...
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Silicon Valley Artists Converge for ‘The Simpsons’ Flash Tattoo Party
Flash tattoos aren’t something I would typically suggest you do on a calm Sunday afternoon. However, when it comes local artistry and reverent fanfare of The Simpsons converging at a tattoo parlor in...
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A New Piece of Public Art Makes a Point Above Yerba Buena Island
While crossing the Bay Bridge or looking out from the Embarcadero, you may have noticed a silvery, pointy, futuristic-looking shape atop the western part of Yerba Buena Island. Below is everything you...
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Mika Rottenberg’s ‘Spaghetti Blockchain’ Pries Open Our Very Weird World
Modern life is cacophonous. Even in our most quiet spaces, there’s the hum of HVAC, the rumble of traffic or a distant, tinny voice coming through someone else’s headphones. We simply cannot escape the...
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