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In ‘With Open Eyes,’ Artists Deploy Dignity and Softness in Depictions of...
In John Berryman’s “Dream Song 29,” the poem opens with a heaviness (“There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart”) that the subject cannot dispel: “Ghastly, / with open eyes, he attends, blind.”...
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8 of the Coolest Things We Saw at the SF Art Book Fair
Books! Zines! Hordes of people! Thursday night saw the opening of the SF Art Book Fair, as much a delight to small-press aficionados as a nightmare for claustrophobics. I can confirm: it was...
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In Santa Rosa, ‘Cruisin’’ Celebrates a Vibrant Lowrider Culture
Ask any longtime Santa Rosan about the cruising scene in town, and they’re likely to reminisce about the bustling weekend-night cruise strip of their teen years. It might have been Fourth Street...
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At MoAD, ‘The Meeting Place’ Vibrates With In-Progress Energy
The Museum of the African Diaspora’s Emerging Artists Program, a staple of the institution’s programming since 2015, is a rare thing in the world of Bay Area museums. It’s a generous open call that...
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Rose D’Amato Sees the Signs
Rose D’Amato shows me a photograph she took of a recently uncovered sign, hand-painted in the 1930s, advertising six-cylinder Chevrolets on what used to be the Mission Chevrolet Co. building. In the...
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‘Peanuts’ Creator Charles Schulz Honored With Corn Mazes Across US and Canada
Visitors to corn mazes across the country are finding a familiar and joyous figure in the winding labyrinth of tall stalks. Snoopy. More than 80 farms in the U.S. and Canada have teamed up with Peanuts...
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For This San Ramon Photographer, There’s Metamorphosis in Everything
Growing into a new and improved form of oneself is both an intimate experience and a universal concept. Photographer Alexis Floyd has gone through her own metamorphosis of late, and now it’s time for...
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A ‘Foul Odor’ Worth Sniffing Out
It’s good to be honest about what it takes to live and make art in a place like San Francisco. The sights, sounds and, yes, smells of this city are not always pleasant, but a certain amount of grime is...
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Meet the Palestinian Artist Making Keffiyeh-Inspired Ceramics for Bay Area...
Even while she dreamed of numbers at her job in corporate tech, Nadia Elgan would fawn over elegant hand-poured ceramics. On her honeymoon in Cuba, she made her husband take her to all the local...
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The Paint Is Dry on Banksy’s Nine Days of Animal-Themed London Street Art
On the 10th day, after creating the mountain goat, elephants, pelicans, a rhinoceros and a gorilla, among other animals, Banksy rested. The elusive street artist’s menagerie that appeared around London...
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A New BAMPFA Show ‘Exalts’ the Museum’s Most Impermanent Things
The show has a straightforward but interestingly complicated premise: artworks are living, breathing, decaying, broken things. All artworks, like all things, are transitory. Organized by the Berkeley...
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Exhibitions, Unveilings and Visual Art Happenings Not to Miss This Fall
Have you been training to improve your art stamina? You’re going to need some serious endurance to attend all the excellent visual arts events on the horizon. (This sports analogy will make more sense...
View ArticleSan Francisco Art Museum to Move into Building Co-Owned by Trump
The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco announced today that it will soon move from its current location in the Dogpatch neighborhood to 345 Montgomery St. in the Financial District, a building...
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SFMOMA’s ‘Unity Through Skateboarding’ Celebrates BIPOC, Queer and Trans Skaters
All of us can easily picture what a skateboard looks like. Four wheels below a wooden deck with all the fixings (trucks, baseplates, risers, bushings, you get the gist) that create an instantly...
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Sarah Cain’s ‘Quiet Riot’ Covers a Mill Valley Gallery in Curves of Color
Mill Valley is not a typical destination for contemporary art, but neither does it seem like a totally unexpected place to find a gallery. Maybe it all depends on where you’re coming from. For locals,...
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With ‘Firmament,’ Nicki Green Constructs Porous Spaces for Transformation
A poem by Eli Andrew Ramer wraps around the walls of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in rusty red text. “Let there be a space within the water and let it separate water and water,” it reads, referencing...
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In San José, Calder’s Twists on Everyday Objects Continue to Inspire
Calder: at home, among friends is dedicated to the intimate objects Alexander Calder made throughout his life, mostly as gifts for friends and family. The selection is limited to works from the San...
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Provocative Paintings Challenge Ideas Around Sex and Domesticity
A quick glance at Anne Buckwalter’s new exhibition can’t help but evoke the purest childhood memories. Scenes of wholesome domesticity sit flatly in conjoining quadrants, conjuring reminiscences of...
View ArticleSouth Asian Literature and Art Festival Puts Creatives In Conversation
A who’s who of South Asian artists, writers, journalists, filmmakers and intellectuals will soon arrive in the Bay Area for a weekend of conversations, art and poetry. The South Asian Literature and...
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A Pomegranate Goes on a Cosmic Journey in Yasmeen Abedifard’s New Book
Upon waking in a garden-like void, a disoriented pomegranate named Anar and a woman named Guli question their existence: Who are they? What is their purpose? Suddenly, a pair of divine hands plucks...
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