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Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies At 75
Mary Ellen Mark, the influential photographer known mostly for her humanist work, has died. She was 75. Mark died Monday, a representative said Tuesday. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that she died...
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Nia King’s Urgent Message: “We Were Here and Our Lives Matter”
How do you make it as an artist? After Nia King left a full-time job to be an artist, she wanted to hear other people’s success stories, particularly those with the most marginalized voices — queer and...
View ArticlePro Arts’ Executive Director Steps Down, Latest in Wave of Recent Art World...
The Oakland visual arts nonprofit Pro Arts announced Wednesday Executive Director Margo Dunlap is stepping down after eleven years at the organization. This news comes just two weeks after Executive...
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Lincoln Park Steps Reopen Grandly with Artist-Designed Tiles
At the western end of San Francisco’s California Street, a splendidly refurbished staircase designed by tile artist Aileen Barr now marks the entryway to 100 acres of public park. On May 28, neighbors,...
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Summer Events in San Jose You Might Not Know About (But Should)
San Jose has been all a buzz over the news from last week that the city’s population hit the one million mark. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, this means that the South Bay city is one of ten in...
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Josh Greene’s ‘Book Show’ Doses Out Antidote to a Digitized World
Event Information Bound to be Held: A Book Show A literary project by conceptual artist Josh Greene. Mar. 26–Jun. 28, 2015 Contemporary Jewish Museum Details and tickets Books are powerful mechanisms...
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‘The Q-Sides’ Merges Queer Culture with San Francisco’s Lowrider Scene
Event Information The Q-Sides Exhibition challenges traditions of lowrider culture. May 23-Jul. 5, 2015 Galería de la Raza Details and tickets San Francisco’s Mission District has a long legacy of...
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‘Dissidents’ Tackle Displacement and Surveillance in Two-Part Exhibition
In the Bay Area, one can hardly read the news — or walk a city block — without bumping into the topic of gentrification. An exhibition curated by Dorothy Santos, The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the...
View ArticleGame On! Oakland Museum Director Bets on Warriors to Win
Who says art and sports can’t play together, especially if there’s a good wager in the mix? On Thursday, the directors of the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA)...
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’28 Chinese’ Highlights a Profound and Political Collection
Event Information 28 Chinese Exhibition of 48 works from the Rubell Family Collection. Jun. 6 – Aug. 16, 2015 Asian Art Museum Details and tickets Fans of contemporary Chinese art need not journey to...
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Shaun O’Dell Proffers Pairs and Portals at Gallery 16
In his second solo exhibition at Gallery 16, Shaun O’Dell draws a meandering line through the past to the present, using layers, doubling and mimicry to tie together a disparate group of...
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Robert Williams’‘Slang Aesthetics’ Ushers in New Era for Sonoma County
Robert Williams sat before a sold-out audience last Saturday and, wasting no time, immediately took note of his place in bucolic wine country. “We’re in a town here with artwork that might not be...
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Amid Racially-Charged Violence, Art from African Diaspora Hits Home in...
Event Information Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA A multimedia group exhibition from SFMOMA’s On the Go initiative. May 4 – Oct. 11, 2015 Museum of the African Diaspora Details and tickets...
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Bridge Project to Put Chinatown on the Public Art Map
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCC), a 50-year-old arts organization lodged on the third floor of Chinatown’s Hilton, announced last week the launch of an “Innovative Open Space Project”...
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Dogpatch Arts Complex Launches Softly with ‘Concrete Is Not Always Hard’
In concrete poetry, words and letters take on physicality. No longer simple vehicles for conveying ideas, they give shape to a poem through their dispersion, orientation and individual topography....
View ArticleChinese-Born Artist Ma Li Makes Treasure from Trash
In Ma Li’s hands, clear plastic bottles transform into suspended fields of jellyfish-like sculptures, and colored foam and clothes hangers resemble migrating flocks of birds. With references to Chinese...
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Mission District’s Queer Cholo Mural Defaced and Replaced
Three volunteers were scraping a giant mural off the wall Thursday at Galeria de la Raza, the 55-year-old center for Chicano and Latino art located at 24th Street and Bryant in San Francisco’s Mission...
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Artists Inspire Awe with ‘Space, Time, and Beauty’ at CJM
Event Information Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty Artists, scientists and creative thinkers interpret the sublime. June 18 – Sept. 20, 2015 Contemporary Jewish Museum Details...
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Mission District Gallery’s Queer Cholo Mural Defaced Again
Update, 1 pm: Ani Rivera, Galeria de la Raza’s owner, emailed KQED Monday to confirm that there is video of two vandals defacing the mural around midnight on Sunday. The video will not be released to...
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Petaluma Arts Center Displays a Different Side of Degas
When a colleague first suggested the Petaluma Arts Center host the works of Edgar Degas, the museum’s executive director Val Richman didn’t take him seriously. “I just laughed,” she recalls. She told...
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