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D-Ray’s Photo Archive is West Coast Hip-Hop Gold
Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, KQED’s story series on Bay Area hip-hop history. D-Ray’s photographs are full of bright, lively images of MCs you know by just one name. Kendrick....
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Humans Are Just Another Animal in a Dreamlike Wattis Show
Upon entering Rodrigo Hernández’s with what eyes?, one is required immediately to navigate the show’s installation, a series of maze-like walls and enclosures, erected like stage props around...
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A Piece of Science Fiction Literary History Comes to the Antiquarian Book Fair
Mark Funke has a passion for science fiction history. So when he acquires a rare artifact, like the original cover art for The Left Hand of Darkness, it’s akin to viewing a gleaming treasure, long...
View ArticleHeadlands Center for the Arts Lays Off Five Staff Members, Citing Fundraising...
On Jan. 19, Headlands Center for the Arts quietly laid off over a quarter of its staff, eliminating five full-time positions from the 18-person nonprofit. Known as one of the preeminent art residencies...
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At SFMOMA, Zanele Muholi Documents South African Queer Life with Intense Feeling
Walking through the initial galleries of the SFMOMA’s stunning new exhibit by queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi, Eye Me, one immediately notices Muholi’s capacity to wring emotions from...
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Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestine Protest
Eight artists painted and draped pro-Palestinian messages over their own work during an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) on Thursday evening as part of a surprise protest to demand...
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Oakland Museum Union Announced Amid a National Wave of Museum Organizing
A group of Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) workers on Wednesday announced plans to form the museum’s first union. Representatives from OMCA Workers United said union membership would consist of...
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YBCA Gallery Remains Closed; Pro-Palestinian Artists Claim Censorship
After a Feb. 15 protest in which artists altered their own exhibited works with pro-Palestinian messages at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, YBCA’s galleries remain closed...
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The Wattis Institute Hires Ballroom Marfa’s Daisy Nam as Director
Daisy Nam, the current director of Ballroom Marfa in Texas, has been hired as the new director and chief curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at California College of the Arts (CCA) in...
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YBCA CEO Resigns After Pro-Palestinian Protest and Boycott
In the wake of protests, censorship accusations and calls for a boycott at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), museum interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat has resigned, the museum’s spokesperson...
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A Year-Long Celebration of James Baldwin’s Centennial Comes to Oakland
James Baldwin in collage form, part of ‘Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin,’ on display now through April 27 at Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland. (Sabrina Nelson) More than a half-century ago, the famed...
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50 Indie Video Games Are Free to Play at SF’s Day of the Devs
There’s a plethora of quirky, artistic and alternative video games to play at Day of the Devs, a free event celebrating indie games at the Midway on Sunday, March 17. From 3 to 8 p.m., the San...
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An Embattled YBCA to Reopen Amid Censorship Accusations, CEO’s Resignation
After closing its galleries for a month, following a Feb. 15 protest where artists modified their own artworks with pro-Palestinian messages, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) made the unexpected...
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Photographer David Johnson, Who Chronicled San Francisco’s Black Culture,...
David Johnson generally wasn’t interested in people posing for his camera. As the photographer and civil rights activist put it in a 2017 interview at the University of California, Berkeley: “A big...
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This San Jose Rapper Recreates the Streets in Hyper-Realistic Dioramas
When you traverse the Bay Area on foot, you notice everything from a different angle: the weeds sprouting through concrete, discarded blunt guts; the familiar person roaming your block. You gain a...
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Tennessee Becomes the First State to Protect Musicians and Other Artists...
Tennessee made history on Thursday, becoming the first U.S. state to sign off on legislation to protect musicians from unauthorized artificial intelligence impersonation. “Tennessee is the music...
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Sculptor Richard Serra, the ‘Poet of Iron,’ Dies at 85
Famed American artist and sculptor Richard Serra, known for turning curving walls of rusting steel and other malleable materials into large-scale pieces of outdoor artwork that are now dotted across...
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What’s Going on at San Francisco’s Mexican Museum?
Last week, San Francisco’s city auditor released a bombshell report on San Francisco’s Mexican Museum, claiming the 49-year-old nonprofit has misused city grant funds and made little progress on...
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The Artistry of SF Ballet’s ‘Dos Mujeres’ Begins at the Curtain
When audiences make their way into the War Memorial Opera House for San Francisco Ballet’s Dos Mujeres, a double-bill presentation of Arielle Smith’s Carmen (a world premiere) and Annabelle Lopez...
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Workers at Oakland’s Creative Growth Form a Union
Only four months in, 2024 is turning into a banner year for organizing in the Bay Area arts world. Just weeks after OMCA Workers United received voluntary recognition of their union from the Oakland...
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