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Feelin’ Like Yeeee: Oakland Art Show Honors Mac Dre
Event Information ‘Dre Area’ Art show dedicated to Mac Dre. Apr. 25, 2015 347 13th St., Oakland Details and tickets In the years since his 2004 death, iconic Bay Area rapper Mac Dre has been...
View ArticleReframed: Artists Seeking Social Change Bring the Public into the Picture
There’s an art of conversation, to be sure, but can conversations themselves be art? They can, when the artists involved are engaging in what’s known as social practice. Social practice projects might...
View ArticleThe Camera as Connector: Photographer Paccarik Orue
Photographer Paccarik Orue moved to San Francisco in 2008 after struggling for a handful of years in Miami, Florida as a recent immigrant to the United States. Far from his birthplace in Lima, Peru,...
View ArticleArmenian Genocide Anniversary Sparks Fiery Art in Los Angeles
A lot of Armenian-Americans of a certain age can relate to L.A. actress and comedienne Lory Tatoulian. “I remember when my grandfather would come and visit us he would share a room with me and he would...
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Oakland Artist Smacks Down Tech Exec for Using Image in Viral Job Ad
An Oakland artist smacked down an executive at a San Diego tech company in a “Cease and F**king Desist” letter after the exec used one of the artist’s images without providing payment or even asking if...
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Oakland Artist Talks About his Battle with Tech Exec Over Image
Oakland artist Packard Jennings is no stranger to the press. His politically-conscious artwork has been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Artforum, and many other publications. But...
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The Vessel XII Controversy: An Otherworldly Tale
In the de Young Museum’s Kimball Education Gallery, an investigation of intergalactic proportions is underway. During a month-long residency at the museum, artist, playwright and musician Jon Bernson...
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Art Fairs of All Kinds: Art Market and Parking Lots
The San Francisco art world is banding together to preserve what’s left of its community in a city that seems to increasingly seek to push the arts away: rents are sky high, evictions and displacement...
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Contemporary Takes on Maritime History at Aquatic Park Exhibition
Event Information A New Deal: Continuing the Legacy of Maritime Art in the Park We Players curates a visual art exhibition. Mar. 7-Jun. 17, 2015 San Francisco Aquatic Park Bathhouse Details On San...
View ArticleThink That $179M Picasso Was Overinflated? Get a Load of This San Francisco...
In this week’s news-that’ll-make-you-ugly-cry-while-checking-your-bank-balance, Picasso’s “Women of Algiers (Version O)” was auctioned off for a staggering $179.4 million, the highest amount ever paid...
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New Graphic Novel Questions Foundations of Gaming Culture
In the new video-game-inspired graphic novel Second Quest, a young woman named Azalea who lives in a floating land with a mysterious history begins to see things most people don’t. Touching certain...
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Bay Area Glitter Artist René Garcia Jr. Dies at 41 (1973–2015)
René Garcia Jr., local artist known for his dazzling glitter paintings of pop culture iconography, died of natural causes on May 8 while vacationing in Orlando, Fla. He was 41. René Garcia Jr., Beach...
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New Plans for Presidio Park Includes Ideal Spot for Star-Gazing
The Presidio Trust, the federal corporation in charge of San Francisco’s Presidio, released its latest plan for a major waterfront park project Wednesday, taking one more step towards a 2018 completion...
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The Terrible Truth about MFA Shows
Ah, the MFA show. The culmination of two years (or, in the case of SF State, three years) of existential questions, all-nighters and periodic epiphanies. For visual artists about to graduate from Bay...
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A Lost Opportunity: SFMOMA’s ‘Portraits’ at MoAD
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, now on view at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) marks the regional culmination of On the Go, SFMOMA’s itinerant exhibition program that places items...
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Longtime ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Cartoonist Announces He’s Quitting
The cartoonist who drew the image of the Prophet Muhammad that appeared on the comeback issue of Charlie Hebdo is leaving the satirical magazine, citing stress and a lack of inspiration. The...
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Day Trippin’: Summer Art Destinations Around the Bay Area
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco,” Mark Twain once said, according to urban legend. Whether or not he said it hardly matters, so let’s not dwell on it — we all know the...
View ArticleDancing in the Streets Brings Mission Murals to Life
For decades, the hundreds of murals in San Francisco’s Mission District have served as a visual history of the neighborhood’s diverse Latin American roots. But in recent years, the cultural landscape...
View ArticleRETRACTION: SFMOMA’s ‘Portraits’ at MoAD
May 22, 2015: The original article, “A Lost Opportunity: SFMOMA’S ‘Portraits’ at MoAD,” was removed from KQED’s website. After posting the article on May 19, we learned that certain assertions in the...
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Mud, Plastic and Colorful Clutter at Berkeley’s MFA Show
At the Berkeley Art Center, the six graduating artists of UC Berkeley’s MFA program showcase the culmination of two years of artistic development and experimentation. Investigating studio habits,...
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