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The Roxie Screens 40-Plus Years of Films by Lynn Marie Kirby

For decades, San Francisco artist Lynn Marie Kirby has created artwork that defies easy classification. In part, this is because she is a natural collaborator, and her work shifts and grows in...

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SFMOMA’s Ruth Asawa Retrospective Honors the Patron Saint of San Francisco Arts

Ruth Asawa making wire sculptures in 1954. (Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock) Is there any artist as locally beloved as Ruth Asawa? For all of Wayne Thiebaud’s vertiginous streets...

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AI Art Flyer Brings Controversy to Oakland First Fridays

The AI-produced flyer used by Oakland’s First Fridays. (Oakland First Fridays) The spring flyer for Oakland’s First Fridays street fair shows people strolling on an urban avenue past a building...

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Nobody Asked for This

On April 10, Marco Cochrane’s 45-foot-tall metal sculpture of a nude woman, titled R-Evolution, was unveiled to the public at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza. She will stand there, her butt facing...

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You Could Be the Exploratorium’s Next Artist in Residence

For the first time in its 56-year history, the Exploratorium has announced an open call for its next artist in residence. The San Francisco science and art museum has hosted an artist-in-residence...

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Revisiting the 1968 SFSU Student Strike While Trump Targets Campus Protesters

The longest student strike in U.S. history was held at San Francisco State University, then known as San Francisco State College, from the fall of 1968 to the spring of 1969. Organized by the Black...

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Isaac Julien Dreams Up a Beautiful and Urgent World at the de Young

In Isaac Julien’s thrilling show, I Dream a World at the de Young, the shifting images on gallery screens seem to respond to one another with something approaching sentience. If montage is the language...

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