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Love, Death and Birth — and a 7-Year Wait — Went Into New Album ‘Traveling...
Time is a tricky variable when creating art. Some ideas take years to fully mature. Others happen with a random stroke of genius. For composer Damani Rhodes, vocalist Vadia and poet Tongo Eisen-Martin,...
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The First San Francisco Photobook Fair Hits the City This Weekend
San Francisco already has an Art Book Fair and a Zine Fest — and now, it’s getting its first-ever book fair dedicated to the art of photography, on Oct. 18 and 19 at the Harvey Milk Photo Center. The...
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Margaret Tedesco, Artist and Curator, Was the ‘Spirit of San Francisco’
A portrait of Margaret Tedesco taken in 1985, included in her 2017 solo show ‘Persuasive Light’ at City Limits in Oakland. (Courtesy of City Limits) Margaret Tedesco, an artist, curator and Bay Area...
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At SOMArts’ Day of the Dead Exhibition, Grief Comes in Fluorescent Colors
When San Francisco’s Rio Yañez and Sacramento’s Bridgétt Rex began curating the 2025 Día de Los Muertos show at the San Francisco gallery and cultural center SOMArts, their mission statement was clear:...
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At 60, the Chinese Culture Center Enters a ‘New Era of Courage’
Tatwina Lee peered down from the balcony of Club Fugazi, a historic theater in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. As the crowd began to pour in, Lee’s phone buzzed with texts from friends...
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A San Francisco Museum Is Going ‘Nomadic’
The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, a three-year-old non-collecting museum, will soon depart its Montgomery Street location for a future with no fixed address. After the current shows...
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In ‘Osato/Quiet Conversations,’ Home Is Ramune Bottles and Sailor Moon
In a reception celebrated with sake and handmade onigiri, the San Francisco gallery Glass Rice opened Osato/Quiet Conversations, a duo presentation of work by Maya Fuji and Shingo Yamazaki, in late...
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Indigenous Ancestry and Memory Come Alive in ‘The Tellings We Keep’
Fifteen years ago, a therapist suggested Tricia Rainwater explore self-portrait photography as a way to process early childhood abuse. What started as a therapeutic practice gradually evolved into the...
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‘Good Fire: Tending Native Lands’ Burns Bright at the Oakland Museum of...
For anyone devastated or dismayed by the last decade of catastrophic megafires in California, there is no more hopeful story than that of Native Californians reviving their use of intentional,...
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A Legendary Mural From the 1980s Has Been Repainted in East Oakland
Oakland graffiti artist Del Phresh poses in front of his newly revamped ‘Oakland Is Proud 2’ mural, located at the same site of his legendary ‘Oakland Is Proud’ piece, originally painted nearly 40...
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The After-Turkey: Your Guide to Family-Friendly Art Viewing All Over the Bay
You fought traffic on the road and crowds at the airport; you brined, trussed, and/or basted a turkey; and you prevailed! Everybody sat down at the table Thursday and ate themselves into a stupor. But...
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Tenderloin Museum Holds New Fundraiser to Continue Ambitious Expansion
The Tenderloin Museum — a hub for all things arts and history in the neighborhood — is asking for donations in order to complete the first phase of an ambitious expansion plan that would see the museum...
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The Best Art I Saw and Didn’t Write About in 2025
It was a more dramatic year than usual in the local visual arts scene: we witnessed cuts to federal funding, institutional layoffs, gallery closures, and (lest we forget!) an actual art heist. Amid all...
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A Third Gallery to Close at Minnesota Street Project
By the end of 2025, three galleries within San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project will have closed their doors. All three — Altman Siegel, Rena Bransten Gallery and Anglim/Trimble — cited the...
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‘Be Not Afraid’ Is a Cathartic Cathedral of Queerness
“I don’t know if you’ve ever been inside an Orthodox Church,” artist KT Seibert tells KQED, “but I just have a hard time believing that straight men designed all that …” Seibert is explaining the...
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Jack Fischer Is Fourth Gallery to Close at Minnesota Street Project
Just a week after Anglim/Trimble became the third gallery at Minnesota Street Project to announce its closure, a fourth has joined the list. Jack Fischer Gallery, established in 2002, will close at the...
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‘Emory Douglas: In Our Lifetime’ Shows the Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist
When it comes to the giants of protest art, few loom as large as Emory Douglas, the 82-year-old graphic artist, illustrator and muralist who served as the Black Panther Party’s minister of culture from...
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13 Ways of Looking at Claude
In honor of the beloved albino alligator Claude, who died last week at the age of 30, we have a special comic from local artist A.G. Moore, who “worked alongside” Claude at the California Academy of...
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This Painting Is Missing. Do You Have It?
This is a story about a missing painting, from an artist you may never have heard of. Though she helped shape European modern art, German artist Gabriele Münter’s work was quickly overshadowed in the...
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Your Guide to the Bay Area’s Biggest Art Month
January is now the most action-packed month of the year for Bay Area artists, galleries and museums, thanks in part to the international crowds that flock to Fort Mason for the opulent FOG Design+Art...
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