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In Oakland, ‘Dalit Dreamlands’ Envisions an Anti-Caste Future
In 2022, Manu Kaur experienced severe hopelessness and depression, to the point of being hospitalized. Kaur, who is Punjabi and Dalit – the latter being a term used to describe the most oppressed...
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An Amy Sherald Exhibition Is Coming to SFMOMA in November
Amy Sherald, ‘Breonna Taylor,’ 2020. (Photo by Joseph Hyde; Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth) Even if you don’t know Amy Sherald’s name, you’ll immediately recognize her work:...
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YBCA’s Experimental Film Programs Find New Homes at The Lab and CounterPulse
While Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ screening room continues to sit dark (without any films to illuminate it), the programs originally organized by Gina Basso to accompany the Bay Area Now 9...
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Indigenous Artists Sell Work to Benefit Emergency Assistance Efforts in Gaza
Printmakers, protest photographers and jewelry makers will sell work this Sunday at an art show with proceeds going to the Middle East Children’s Alliance. Oakland photographer Ashley Salaz and artist...
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Three Local Artists Win SFMOMA’s SECA Art Award
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the three winners of the 2024 SECA Art Award: Lauren D’Amato, Angela Hennesy and Rupy C. Tut. The artists will have an exhibition at the museum Dec....
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BAMPFA’s Great Migration Show Brings Nuance to a History Shared by Millions
My mother was six years old when her family migrated west from Tallahassee, Florida in 1954. She was one of approximately six million Black people who moved out of the American South to Western,...
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Post-Apocalyptic Visions of Earth Aren’t So Far-Fetched at 111 Minna Gallery
‘Communication is Key’ by Mike Davis. (Mike Davis/111 Minna) Picture if you will, a very large painting (4 by 5 feet, to be precise) that acts a little bit like a Where’s Waldo scene for adults....
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A Gallery Owner With a ‘Let’s-Do-This Attitude’ Launches a Residency on...
Jonathan Carver Moore is not one to rest on his laurels. Less than a year after opening his eponymous gallery on Market Street, he has launched a residency program in the empty 2,600-square-foot retail...
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Your Phone is Haunted
Distance doesn’t really make the heart grow fonder. It makes it colder and harder. We can calculate that distance by our waning attention on events in faraway places, or our lack of curiosity about...
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‘Day Jobs’ Wants to Dispel Romantic Notions of Art Making
The premise of the Cantor Arts Center’s newest exhibition paints an optimistic and uniquely American portrait: artists can be inspired by their day jobs. Not only are they earning a steady income, Day...
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Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealism Invites Us to Sit With Uncertainty
“Please don’t ask me to explain them,” Dorothea Tanning once said of her paintings. “I just don’t think it’s possible.” Tanning, who died in 2012 at the age of 101, had a career in the arts that...
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The Rainin Foundation Announces Its 2024 Fellows, Receiving $100,000 Each
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced its 2024 class of fellows on Wednesday, giving unrestricted grants of $100,000 each to three individual artists and one trio of creatives. The list includes...
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SFMOMA Workers Urge the Museum to Support Palestinians in an Open Letter
On Wednesday morning, a group of workers at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) published an open letter to museum leadership, urging them to take a public stance in solidarity with...
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East Bay Street Photographers Want You to Take ‘Notice’
When photographers come together to show their work, the stories flow. That’s sure to be the case at the Oakland Photo Workshop on Friday, May 3, as the Oakland Street Photography Collective and the...
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‘Art of Noise’ at SFMOMA Celebrates the Weird Ways We Listen to Music
For what’s essentially a bunch of wiggly air, music plays a fascinating and outsized role in civilization. The methods humans have devised to deliver sound waves to our ears are as varied as they are...
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Clare Rojas’ New Paintings Depict the Rich Inner Lives of Women
A single painting greets visitors in the entryway of Clare Rojas’ latest exhibition at Jessica Silverman. In it, a man sits in the corner booth of a diner with his legs spread wide and his elbows...
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Wolfe Pack Studios’ Final Show Isn’t Bad News
Even when venues close and galleries shutter, the idea that led to the creation of the space can remain; sometimes that idea can grow. This is true for Oakland-based painter Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith,...
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SF’s Zach Rodell Is a Go-To Artist for Tripped-Out Concert Visuals
Moments before Panchiko takes the stage at their sold-out UC Theatre show in April, Zach Rodell is plotting a visual projection display he’s never done before. He’s just gotten back from doing visuals...
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Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Visionary Artist Who Invented Supergraphics,...
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, seen here surrounded by her designs. The artist and pioneer of supergraphics died at her home Tuesday night at age 95. (Courtesy Chris Grunder) Barbara Stauffacher Solomon,...
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Your Guide to This Summer’s Not-To-Miss Visual Art
Every year, it’s a struggle to whittle this list down to a select few. There’s simply so much happening in art spaces across the Bay Area. For 2024, I’ve plotted out an ideal summer, full of inventive...
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