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Shock G Revolutionized Hip-Hop — and Created a Secret Trove of Funky Art
Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, KQED’s year-long exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history. For many listeners, Bay Area rap from the late ’80s and early ’90s calls to mind the dark...
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Executive Director of Contemporary Jewish Museum Steps Down After Less than...
The Contemporary Jewish Museum announced Executive Director Chad Coerver will step down from his role in mid-August after less than two years at the museum. Coerver joined the CJM in September 2021...
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SF Youth Explore Themes of Home, Identity at Generation Chinatown Exhibition
On a Friday evening, laughter and conversation fill the air as crowds wait in a narrow alleyway outside community art space 41 Ross. Fresh tamales are passed out as people eagerly line up to see the...
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At Gallery Wendi Norris, a Magical Encounter With Remedios Varo’s Work
There are benefits to opening a gallery within the vicinity of other galleries. The galleries at 49 Geary, their tenancy waxing and waning over the years, continues to provide multiple shows for the...
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In Jona Frank’s EUQINOM Exhibit, There’s No Place Like Home
The time and setting of Jona Frank’s childhood would look familiar to millions of Americans: the 1970s, an ordinary suburban house in a middle-class New Jersey neighborhood. But alongside the...
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Getting ‘The Shot’ at the History of the Bay Day Party
On the latest episode of the History of the Bay Podcast, host Dregs One talks with legendary hip-hop photographer D-Ray. Throughout the conversation, she drives home the notion that good photography is...
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At the de Young, ‘Crafting Radicality’ Captures the Energy of a Local Moment
The show’s title is a bit misleading. Crafting Radicality: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, which opened at the de Young on July 22, sounds like an exhibition centered on “radical” craft...
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Oakland Artist Esteban Samayoa Makes an Ambitious Solo Debut at pt.2
Above the pt.2 gallery space on Oakland’s Webster Street, artists of all mediums work away in private studios. While musicians like Ovrkast and Demahjiae make new sounds, artists like Landon Pointer...
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Objects Receive Tender Care in Nico B. Young’s ‘Flashlights’
One of the most curious things about In Concert, the gallery run by Gabriel Garza and Theadora Walsh, is that it bounces between two spaces in the same building — one L-shaped, the other squarish — to...
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SFMOMA’s ‘Sitting On Chrome’ Luxuriates in Going Low and Slow
It’s difficult to avoid punning when it comes to Sitting on Chrome, a highly polished three-person show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Works shine and sparkle — quite literally — in this...
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11 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area this Fall
Find more of KQED’s picks for the best fall 2023 events here. Fall is a flashy time in the visual art world. So many of the region’s artists are also teachers that early September brings a refreshing...
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Vallejo’s ‘Salad Days’ Begin Again With the Help of a New Artist-Run Gallery
or four years, Lisa Rybovich Crallé called the number on a vacant storefront just a few blocks from her home in Vallejo. While out on daily dog walks, she sometimes slipped paper notes into the...
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The Contagious Joy of Maija Peeples-Bright’s Animal-Filled World
Maija Peeples-Bright, 80, paints a sculpture in her home studio in Rocklin, California. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) This story is part of the series 8 Over 80, celebrating artists and cultural figures over the...
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Let ’Em Know: Oakland’s New Souls of Mischief Mural
If you’ve been near lower High Street in Oakland over the past few weeks, you may have noticed something beautiful taking shape: a large, colorful mural featuring Oakland’s Souls of Mischief. The...
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A Big Show of Little Paintings Captures a Different Relationship to Time
When it comes to art, the ratio of time spent looking to time spent making is tricky. Value — monetary or artistic — doesn’t necessarily come from longer periods of making. And yet it stings when a...
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Daniel Clowes’ ‘Monica’: Grief, Nefarious Hippies and a Personal Apocalypse
Fool that I am, I thought it would be cute to read the first few chapters of Dan Clowes’ new magnum opus Monica while vacationing in a cabin in the woods. Instead of the cozy and peaceful scene I had...
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SFMOMA’s Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Will Cost You $10 a Minute. Is It Worth It?
If the idea of spending $40 to access an art exhibition for four minutes gives you pause, just remember: that pause will cost you over 16 cents every second. Beginning Oct. 5, the general public will...
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Amy Kurzweil Reaches Back in Time Through Graphic Memoir and AI Chatbot
Connection is simultaneously the text and subtext of New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil’s new graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story, in which she writes, “to be loved is to be known.” The book is an...
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A New Memoir From a Longtime Bay Area Curator Reflects on ‘A Life Among Artists’
You won’t find many salacious stories in Renny Pritikin’s memoir At Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists. Yes, there are a few tales of dangerous Survival Research Laboratories performances, or...
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In Duane Linklater’s ‘mymothersside,’ Memory is Buried Deep in Objects
When you first turn into the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s main exhibition space, watch your head. Jutting out from the wall sideways, in a splay of tapered wooden pole-ends, is a...
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