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Get Away From the News This Summer With These 7 Bay Area Diversions
Be sure to check out our full 2025 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more in the Bay Area. You, reading this: put your phone down! (After you read this, that is.) Our...
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Your Complete Guide to Summer Fun in the Bay Area Is Here
Looking for events, concerts, festivals and movies in the Bay Area this summer? Catch E-40 and More This Summer When it comes to things to do in the region, you can count on KQED’s Arts & Culture...
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Pacita Abad’s Archive Arrives at the Place Where Her Career Started
Before her death in 2004, the artist Pacita Abad traveled to over 60 countries and made more than 5,000 artworks. Only lung cancer stopped her; she died at age 58 in Singapore after completing a...
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At BAMPFA, the African American Quilt Show We’ve Been Waiting For
We’ve waited a long time for a glimpse at the true scope of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s African American quilt collection. When Eli Leon’s bequest to the museum was announced in...
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At Fort Point, An Ode to ‘Black Gold,’ Then and Now
Directly beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, Fort Point’s red brick ceilings and white walls are currently a three-story display of fine art. While the works highlight the golden legacies of African...
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How the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Supercharged San Francisco’s Fight for Trans...
Editor’s note: This story is part of ‘Trans Bay: A History of San Francisco’s Gender-Diverse Community.’ From June 9–20, we’re publishing stories about transgender artists and activists who shaped...
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Videos at Asian Art Museum Capture the Anxiety and Explosions of ‘Everyday War’
Standing in Yuan Goang-Ming’s Everyday War at the Asian Art Museum, I was periodically startled by a loud “BANG!” The sound emanated from the dinner table in the center of the gallery, a sculptural...
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A Radiant Show of Intangible, Unclassifiable Things at K. Imperial
There are just a few days left to visit Renée Gertler’s radiant solo show at K. Imperial Fine Art, a show that’s only been open by appointment since its May 8 opening. Let me digress for a moment. This...
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Photos: Decades in, These Women’s Love Was ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’
Dinah Davis (left) and Sally Jones embrace each other in the bedroom of their home in Aptos, California. (Morgan Lieberman) Hidden Once, Hidden Twice is a documentary photo and film project honoring...
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San Francisco Awards More Than $10 Million to Artists, Arts Orgs
The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) on Tuesday announced a cumulative $10.4 million in grants to 145 artists and arts nonprofits and six cultural centers. The grants include more than $7.5 million...
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A Show of Queer Desire Pairs Abandon and Restraint
Xandra Ibarra, ‘Libidinal Mark-Making (Hickey Series),’ 2025–ongoing. (Aaron Wojack) It’s a good sign when an art show has a bit of a scent. Too often, art exists outside of the hustle and bustle of...
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At Pacific Saw Works, Puzzling Paintings Make Surreal Sense
When I first got a glimpse of Milo Moyer-Battick’s paintings in person last year, the show was a small one, arranged on the wood-paneled walls of The Last Straw, an enigmatic artist-run gallery and...
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The Oakland Library Wants YOU … to Make Weird History Dioramas
We’ve all been there. One minute you’re casually browsing newspaper archives in the library, the next you’re stumbling across a story from yore that’s so bizarre, you just have to render it in...
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Bigger Than Ever, the SF Art Book Fair Returns With Zines and Small Presses...
You don’t realize just how massive the Bay Area’s small-press and zine world is until you walk into the San Francisco Art Book Fair. Inside, it’s shoulder-to-shoulder crowds. A steady din of excited...
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Self-Portraits of Many Kinds Bring Oakland Into Focus
When pablo circa told me that he and Essi Westerman, two photographers from Oakland, were curating an exhibition that features even more talented photographers from the Town — 42 to be exact — I had...
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Public Gets to Weigh In on Art Coming to a Renovated Portsmouth Square
In San Francisco’s Chinatown, Portsmouth Square’s renovation may be delayed, but the neighborhood’s artistic future is already in the works. Local residents are being asked to weigh in on the finalists...
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