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New Exhibit Honors Filipino American Resistance and Resilience in SoMa
Cherisse Alcantara, ‘School Courtyard (Bessie Carmichael School FEC),’ 2025. The work is part of ‘MAKIBAKA: A Living Legacy,’ an exhibition on view through Jan. 4, 2026 at YBCA in San Francisco....
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‘Bay Area Then’ Uplifts the Radical Artists of ’90s San Francisco
Rigo 23’s ‘Terra Nullius,’ which connects San Francisco’s tech industry to the destruction of Gaza, is a powerful highlight of ‘Bay Area Then,’ on view through Jan. 25, 2026 at YBCA. (Robbie Sweeny)...
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A New Chapter of Carlos Villa’s Career Hinges Open at Cushion Works
Foldable, portable art. In practice, it sounds like a great idea. A handle here, a hinge there, a locking mechanism to keep everything in place while you’re on the move. Can’t bear to be parted from a...
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New Collages by Winston Smith Continue His Mission to Hack Up Capitalism
At the end of May, beloved San Francisco collage artist Winston Smith suffered a heart attack that stopped him in his tracks. At the time, he was due to premiere a show of new and classic works on June...
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10 Art Shows to See This Fall
Be sure to check out our full 2025 Fall Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more in the Bay Area. The fall season opens with a closing: On Saturday, Sept. 6, the San Francisco...
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A Shape-Shifting Show Fits Perfectly Into This Oddly Proportioned SF Gallery
There’s something classically San Francisco about the Market Street storefront currently occupied by the gallery 1599fdT. Narrow and long, with unnecessarily high ceilings, the space is an ad hoc...
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Your Complete Guide to Fall Arts in the Bay Area Is Here
Looking for concerts, plays, art shows and movies in the Bay Area this fall? Let KQED Arts & Culture’s trusted recommendations be your guide. While the world becomes ever more bombarded with...
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Your Last-Minute Plans for Labor Day Weekend Fun Are Here
Did Labor Day weekend sneak up on you this year? It happens to the best of us. If you failed to make advance plans for the long weekend, the KQED Arts & Culture team has you covered. Below are a...
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San José Museum of Art Announces New Executive Director
After a nationwide search for a new director and CEO of the San José Museum of Art, the museum’s board of trustees has named Jeremiah Matthew Davis as Sayre Batton’s successor. Davis comes to San José...
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Reinstalled Indigenous Art Galleries Offer a Welcome Shift in Perspective
The word “reinstallation” may not sound as exciting as a summer blockbuster or special touring exhibit, but it’s where museums do some of their most substantial work. Rethinking the presentation of a...
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Researchers Solve Decades-Old Mystery of Iconic Jackson Pollock Painting
Scientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock’s paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time that the abstract expressionist used a...
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Lowriders Cruise Onto the National Stage In Smithsonian Exhibition
Lowriders — American-made muscle cars customized with chrome plates, glossy paint and pristine rims — comprise an art form that neatly represents the ideals of this country. The cars are products of...
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‘The Art of Manga’ Brings New Worlds to the de Young Museum
‘Art of Manga’ at the de Young Museum is the first large-scale exhibition of its kind in San Francisco. Pictured above is art work from the Takahashi Rumiko (高橋留美子) manga, ‘MAO’ (MAO マオ). (© Rumiko...
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Artist Tiffany Conway is Bringing the Bay to the Florence Biennale
Artist Tiffany Conway, raised all around the Bay Area, will represent the region next month at the high-profile Florence Biennale in Italy. ( Bryon Malik) When Bay Area artist Tiffany Conway got an...
View ArticleOakland’s Smartbomb Takes Over SFMOMA for an Experimental Art Party
In 1949, the artists Clay Spohn and Mark Rothko threw a “costume carnival” with a provocative theme: “The Unknown.” Over 1,600 revelers in weird, surrealist outfits flocked to dance the night away at...
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More Big Burning Man Art Is Coming to San Francisco
Five months after the installation of R-Evolution, the giant metal sculpture of a nude woman in Embarcadero Plaza, and just two months since the appearance of the sea-serpent Naga in Golden Gate Park,...
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MoAD Reopens With Its Imagination ‘Unbound’
Mikael Owunna, ‘The Resurrection of Eke-Nnechukwu,’ 2021, on view as part of ‘Unbound: Art, Blackness and the Universe’ at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. (© Mikael Owunna,...
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RM From BTS Will Curate an SFMOMA Exhibit in 2026
Fans recently spotted RM from the K-pop juggernaut BTS at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, taking in the woven sculptures of local icon Ruth Asawa. Now we know why. The Korean rapper is...
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Small-Scale Art Tells a Moonlit Story of Vulnerability and Imperfection
Before crossing the street to Rebecca Camacho Presents to see Cyrano, an exhibition of new work by the Richmond-based artist Em Kettner, I recommend passing through the redwood grove at the base of the...
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What the World Needs Now Is Love — and Suzanne Jackson at SFMOMA
Suzanne Jackson leads with love and invites you to do the same. With her first major museum retrospective spanning six decades of work, the 81-year-old artist demonstrates how freeing an expansive...
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